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I got thinking about how weird it is in the extended cut that Legolas just snipes Wormtongue after he stabs Saruman. I know it's just a reference to how the Hobbits killed him in the book but for the film it's so out of place for Legolas to kill him without hesitation like that. It's wonky.
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# ? Oct 1, 2023 18:17 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 04:34 |
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Legolas is a cop
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# ? Oct 1, 2023 18:36 |
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Arc Hammer posted:I got thinking about how weird it is in the extended cut that Legolas just snipes Wormtongue after he stabs Saruman. I know it's just a reference to how the Hobbits killed him in the book but for the film it's so out of place for Legolas to kill him without hesitation like that. It's wonky. That scene is just bad beginning to end.
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# ? Oct 1, 2023 19:05 |
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It's always refreshing to re-read the Scouring of the Shire and realize how the Merry and Pippin legit waste no time in taking no poo poo and raising an army to murder the gently caress out of Sharky's men. I know it would have never worked in the film adaptation, especially with how many people complained about how long the ending was even before the extended edition. But drat is the whole chapter a breath of fresh air after the film's version. Then again the whole ghost army deus ex machina is annoying already. There is a lot to praise about Return of the King in film form, but it is definitely the movie that also has the most bad adaptations of things.
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# ? Oct 1, 2023 20:24 |
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I love when Sam walks up to the Cottons and tells them he's overthrowing the government and they just go "we're in". The way Aragorn handles Sauron's emissary is more badass than the movie version where he screams and murders an ambassador.
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# ? Oct 1, 2023 21:43 |
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Murdering the ambassador to an enemy nation is always more than a little bit of “wait what?” Having the ambassador flee from Gandalf’s voice and question his own life choices that lead him to being in that very moment in time is a lot more awesome. But yeah probably hard to adapt well onto a movie screen. Also how much more awesome is Gandalf randomly shouting in the midst of battle, “The realm of Sauron is E N D E D” jeeves fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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jeeves posted:
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 14:24 |
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jeeves posted:Then again the whole ghost army deus ex machina is annoying already. There is a lot to praise about Return of the King in film form, but it is definitely the movie that also has the most bad adaptations of things. yeah, tis the only movie where actual plot things change noticeably. for instance the elves at helms deep don't change anything, they just help out and they all die. We can discuss if it cheapens the moment by not having it be Just Rohan doing it but for a film it puts cool weapons and armor on screen, along with a bunch of nameless dudes to get offed by Uruk hai. The army of the dead is my least favorite change for sure since i think it negates Gondor's effort in a way the elves at helm's deep don't. that also makes the smaller stuff like the mouth of sauron getting beheaded stand out more because now its stuff piling up. movies are still loving amazing and i am so loving worried about the inevitable remake in 10 years or whatever. there is just no way we will get a a better one.
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 15:37 |
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WoodrowSkillson posted:movies are still loving amazing and i am so loving worried about the inevitable remake in 10 years or whatever. there is just no way we will get a a better one. Millie Bobby Brown as Galadriel Daniel Radcliffe as Gandalf Elijah Wood as Bilbo Ed: Mel Gibson as Denethor
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 16:35 |
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Jackson's aren't even the best extant adaptations so the next one's could be even worse or better, there's no way to know before hand.
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 17:31 |
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adapt the musical
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 17:40 |
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Film the Boorman script. You know you want to
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 17:47 |
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skasion posted:Film the Boorman script. You know you want to I know I want to, but does anyone else want me to?
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 18:06 |
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skasion posted:Film the Boorman script. You know you want to Monkey Paw: it's done by Villeneuve
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 18:15 |
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Runcible Cat posted:I know I want to, but does anyone else want me to? Without reading it, yes
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 18:18 |
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Blood Boils posted:Without reading it, yes https://www.dropbox.com/s/00nxc4j8mpepf5e/John-Boorman-Lord-of-the-Rings.pdf?dl=0 for anyone who's never read Saruman vamping Gandalf in a kabuki plot roundup and Gimli being beaten up and buried to try and get him to remember how to get into Moria.
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 18:36 |
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Blood Boils posted:Without reading it, yes "some blog I Googled posted:To be honest, I feel Boorman misreads The Lord of the Rings. He wants to read the Celtic and the Arthurian into the text in a way I do not think the text actually supports. Gandalf is not Merlin, and Galadriel is not the Lady of the Lake. Sure, I am sufficiently revisionistic in my preferences that I would not inherently mind an Arthurian-flavoured take on Tolkien, but as presented here, the story simply becomes too incoherent. Boorman’s ambitions are hampered by his limitations – and trying to put the entire Lord of the Rings into a single three hour film is one hell of a limitation. I had never heard this before about 30 minutes ago and drat. Someone make this movie immediately
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 18:39 |
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I love John Boorman.
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 19:13 |
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Bonjour Man
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 19:17 |
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That’s definitely a Boorish script
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# ? Oct 2, 2023 22:17 |
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I stand by what I said, that all sounds cool Edit: like the other adaptations will still exist, as will the books, so why not?
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# ? Oct 3, 2023 01:53 |
Lovely map of Middle-earth from the European Lord of the Rings comics.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 19:36 |
"Dagorland", same misreading I made at like age 11
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 19:41 |
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I was just thinking about it....is there any outcome where things go well for the Orcs? Obviously, the way things play out, they slowly die out and are never seen again following the Fourth Age (presumably). However, I'm also wondering that if Sauron triumphs, do Orcs have any longterm role in his plans? This is a Maia of Aule, who defects to Melkor because he treasures Order so much, would he really tolerate the ongoing chaos and infighting of Orcs permanently? They are a valuable force while waging war on the "Free Peoples" but what Sauron originally wanted was to rule over Elves and Men, he doesn't really have any special love for Orcs, or any love at all. And Morgoth...well that dude would have destroyed the entire world and killed every Orc and Goblin on his way doing it too. Sad! Mike N Eich fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Oct 9, 2023 |
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Mike N Eich posted:I was just thinking about it....is there any outcome where things go well for the Orcs? Obviously, the way things play out, they slowly die out and are never seen again following the Fourth Age (presumably). However, I'm also wondering that if Sauron triumphs, do Orcs have any longterm role in his plans? This is a Maia of Aule, who defects to Melkor because he treasures Order so much, would he really tolerate the ongoing chaos and infighting of Orcs permanently? They are a valuable force while waging war on the "Free Peoples" but what Sauron originally wanted was to rule over Elves and Men, he doesn't really have any special love for Orcs, or any love at all. sauron would have used orcs as his occupying troops. of course you could say that that's not good for orcs perhaps if some orc had got hold of the ring things could have gone better for them? unless they're too much of robots and would have just taken it back to sauron
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 20:16 |
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ChubbyChecker posted:sauron would have used orcs as his occupying troops. of course you could say that that's not good for orcs No Orc is strong enough to challenge Sauron even if they had the ring. Probably only Gandalf/Galadriel/Saruman/Elrond/Aragorn would have had a chance, and of those I think most would probably still fail. I see only Gandalf or Saruman as having a realistic chance of pulling off conquering Sauron in that way.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 20:49 |
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Ginette Reno posted:No Orc is strong enough to challenge Sauron even if they had the ring. Orcs are also notably susceptible to Sauron's will - he can even make some of them march and fight in the daytime if he really kicks the spurs. Galadriel as written in TLOTR wouldn't succeed, but Galadriel as she later came to be conceived in notes etc would have had a fighting chance. Tolkien really started thinking of her as a powerhouse in the later years.
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# ? Oct 9, 2023 23:25 |
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I may have found the worst illustration of Tolkien ever: Luthien dancing in her bikini oh my god why can't I stop sniggering at this.
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Runcible Cat posted:I may have found the worst illustration of Tolkien ever: Rowena Morrill was a talented artist, but she belonged to that certain subgenre of fantasy/scifi art that is known in the business as "horny as gently caress".
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# ? Oct 10, 2023 21:30 |
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And it was there that Beren the Sleeveless first beheld Luthien No-Brow (she whose armpits were cloaked always in gossamer and whose neck towered unto the heavens)
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# ? Oct 11, 2023 01:12 |
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I'm the penis dagger
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# ? Oct 11, 2023 10:56 |
He's like the fuckin Magic Man from Adventure Time
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# ? Oct 11, 2023 10:59 |
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Runcible Cat posted:I may have found the worst illustration of Tolkien ever: He fell in love when he saw her do a sick flip
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# ? Oct 11, 2023 12:00 |
Just a heads-up that I'm posting scanlations of the European Lord of the Ring Comics in the PYF Comics thread. These were never officially translated to English.
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# ? Oct 11, 2023 12:06 |
That's really good, I particularly like the rendering of the MIrror visions Lol @ Boromir's obligatory horned helmet though
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# ? Oct 11, 2023 12:23 |
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Why do the always draw Sam as a chonker, I don't think the book ever describes his huskyness.
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# ? Oct 11, 2023 12:33 |
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keep punching joe posted:Why do the always draw Sam as a chonker, I don't think the book ever describes his huskyness. He's the working class hobbit, it's probably just the way classism conditions us.
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# ? Oct 11, 2023 12:44 |
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For tonight's performance the part of Aragorn son of Arathorn, Ranger of the North and Heir of Isildur will be played by Bruce Campbell.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:For tonight's performance the part of Aragorn son of Arathorn, Ranger of the North and Heir of Isildur will be played by Bruce Campbell. Hail to the [Return of the] King, baby.
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I should probably post a link to the beginning rather than the latest update. I am posting the entire comic in daily installment, as is the current tradition in the thread.SimonChris posted:J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings
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