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Shibawanko posted:it means that frodo had his cock out in that scene
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In Hobbiton slang, he was baggin' it
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Nov 30, 2022 15:37
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Frodo Shaggin'
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YaketySass posted:Frodo Shaggin' That’s Frito Bugger to you, buddy.
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Baggins on the streets, Took in the sheets
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Mukulu posted:There were Entwives You ever actually meet these Entwives? Did Treebeard also tell you they live in Canada?
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I hope the Rings of Power features Sacha Baron Cohen as an Ent so he can do the Borat voice to say "My Entwife."
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I like how Bilbo wrote the biggest poem in the book and filled it with ten dollar words like habergeon and flammifer and made it all about his host's dad who is also Venus
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Dec 6, 2022 17:43
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Yeah it’s a good poem.
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Dec 6, 2022 18:08
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https://twitter.com/teawithtolkien/status/1601429884282101761?s=46&t=iTgzfty5SlcLCZkiWspZRw
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This, uh, went places
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Dec 11, 2022 12:11
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Hi nerds. Andy Serkis or Rob Inglis?
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Dec 11, 2022 15:43
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Serkis. Inglis has got a great voice for audiobooks but Serkis's physical performance adds another layer on top of a fantastic voice performance. I was in the bookstore and saw a new hardback on the Fall of Numenor. Is it just a reprint of History of Middle Earth and other sources or is there anything previously unpublished in there? Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Dec 11, 2022 |
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Dec 11, 2022 16:08
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I think what I want to know most is, which one of them is the better singer?
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Dec 11, 2022 17:01
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Is Serkis better with time for proper rehearsal and production? I was deeply unimpressed by that live online performance of the Hobbit he did during lockdown.
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Dec 11, 2022 18:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIrIK6Z8ybg
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wouldn't there be no universe then
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I lolled at the Glenn Yarbrough fan.
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Deptfordx posted:Is Serkis better with time for proper rehearsal and production? Same. Dude's an awesome physical actor but he can NOT read prose.
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Dec 15, 2022 17:23
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He did that largely on the fly with little rehearsal. Reading an entire book live out loud is HARD if you don’t know the material inside and out. Audiobook production is HEAVILY edited. Sometimes the narrators have to read a line 10 times before they get it right. And you only ever hear the best take.
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Mahoning posted:He did that largely on the fly with little rehearsal. Reading an entire book live out loud is HARD if you don’t know the material inside and out. I've listened to the Inglis readings and I think they're pretty drat great, but if he did more than one take on any of the songs, I can't imagine what the other takes sounded like.
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Mahoning posted:He did that largely on the fly with little rehearsal. Reading an entire book live out loud is HARD if you don’t know the material inside and out. If you listen to a lot of audiobooks (as i do), obvious stumbles and fuckups are not uncommon. And I don't just mean Kindle Unlimited level stuff where someones basically just thrown together a quick Audio version.
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Dec 15, 2022 22:59
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Stephen Fry once told a funny story on QI about narrating the Harry Potter audio books, which he agreed to before HP blew up everywhere and turned into a 7-book marathon. Basically every sentence had to be precisely perfect, because the idea was that kids could listen to the narration and read along on the page, helping them develop reading skills. So the whole process naturally took forever. According to Stephen there was one phrase he just genuinely couldn’t say without stumbling (“Harry pocketed it”). By about take 50 he ended up calling JK Rowling and asked if he could say something different. Her answer? “No.” And of course, just to annoy him she ensured that phrase appeared in every subsequent book.
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webmeister posted:According to Stephen there was one phrase he just genuinely couldn’t say without stumbling (“Harry pocketed it”). By about take 50 he ended up calling JK Rowling and asked if he could say something different. Her answer? “No.” And of course, just to annoy him she ensured that phrase appeared in every subsequent book. please don't tell stories that make me like JK Rowling
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Pham Nuwen posted:please don't tell stories that make me like JK Rowling To be fair, she is the rear end in a top hat in this story, it's just that it's funny when people are assholes to Stephen Fry in general.
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Actually, nobodies answered my question yet. As I say, I didn't like the off the cuff Covid performance of the Hobbit, but I'm perfectly prepared to believe Serkis is decent with prep. So how is the Serkis performance of the LOTR books, has anyone actually listened to them? Inglis is fine but he's a little too thespian for me some times. I'd be interested in hearing another decent performance.
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Deptfordx posted:Actually, nobodies answered my question yet. Just listen to the 5 minute sample and decide for yourself? https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Hobbit-Audiobook/1705009050
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This isn't Lotr related at all but I listened to a few clips the other day of Jerome Flynn reading ASOIAF text and he was quite good at it. I'd love to hear him narrate a fantasy novel. He had a good voice and cadence for it.
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Ginette Reno posted:This isn't Lotr related at all but I listened to a few clips the other day of Jerome Flynn reading ASOIAF text and he was quite good at it. I'd love to hear him narrate a fantasy novel. He had a good voice and cadence for it. wasn't he like a singer too
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Kaysette posted:Just listen to the 5 minute sample and decide for yourself? Oh sure, and it's a good check that the reader isn't obviously terrible. But you only get a tiny slice of characterisation and prose But speaking of egregious previews check this out. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Viki...0AF9A1YJMQ10CKF It's amazing.
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https://acoup.blog/2022/12/16/collections-why-rings-of-powers-middle-earth-feels-flat/
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Pham Nuwen posted:https://acoup.blog/2022/12/16/collections-why-rings-of-powers-middle-earth-feels-flat/ For some reason I read all of this, despite not having seen Rings of Power. (Is it a fair judgment, for those who have?) Anyway I've read heaps of (mostly bad) sci-fi/fantasy over the years, and a lot of authors seem to have trouble making worlds that feel populated. This is especially true in stories where the protag gets transported from our world to another. It always feels like this new realm contains about four people. Interesting that this ACOUP should pick up on the same thing.
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Realism is really the least of the show's problems but ACOUP is pretty good as far as pop history blogs go. His Siege of Gondor/Battle of Helm's Deeps series are long but interesting reads, making the argument that Sauron, Denethor and Theoden genuinely feel like competent commanders, and how much of a know-nothing fuckup Saruman is by comparison.
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fantasy doesn't need to be realistic to be good. the show does feel flat, but it's because it isn't fantastical enough, the main characters are boring, the massive budget doesn't show anywhere, and there seems to be only like 100 people living in the whole world
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ChubbyChecker posted:fantasy doesn't need to be realistic to be good. the show does feel flat, but it's because it isn't fantastical enough, the main characters are boring, the massive budget doesn't show anywhere, and there seems to be only like 100 people living in the whole world There's realistic and there's realistic, though. He's using it to describe more a kind of... groundedness than the "hurr you've got magic and demigods and elves how's any of that realistic" realistic. Things like "getting to certain places is going to take a certain amount of time unless you specifically mention you're using a magic dingus to get there faster" and "come on, you're not going to fit 300 horses on that ship and if you are then show us them all trotting out of the Bag of Holding" and so on. Which makes sense; if a pyroclastic flow isn't going to Pompeii everything it touches why worry about it? It's just spectacle with no involvement, and if that's what they were going for then they should have gone in a drat sight harder on the spectacle. It's not as though the Sil's short on spectacle FFS!
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Yeah I mostly enjoyed Rings of Power having firmly placed it in the category of "It's the worlds most expensive ever fan-fiction. Roll with it". But that Pyroclastic flow bit was bullshit. I was genuinally curious to see the next episode and see how the hell everyone didn't just die, but nope! Some extras died, but all the main cast are inexplicably fine* without explanation. *Oh and one case of blindness without a shred of accompanying burns of course.
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Runcible Cat posted:There's realistic and there's realistic, though. He's using it to describe more a kind of... groundedness than the "hurr you've got magic and demigods and elves how's any of that realistic" realistic. Things like "getting to certain places is going to take a certain amount of time unless you specifically mention you're using a magic dingus to get there faster" and "come on, you're not going to fit 300 horses on that ship and if you are then show us them all trotting out of the Bag of Holding" and so on. Which makes sense; if a pyroclastic flow isn't going to Pompeii everything it touches why worry about it? It's just spectacle with no involvement, and if that's what they were going for then they should have gone in a drat sight harder on the spectacle. It's not as though the Sil's short on spectacle FFS! It is a little puzzling that, if you're gonna do everything with CGI anyway, you'd decide that 3 ships is a pretty good amount. Make a loving armada, you're just telling the CGI slaves to copy-paste a few times!
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