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Connor, LOTR EPICNESS!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jun 24, 2011 06:45PM
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What's so funny? When do you want to play catch?
Wow guess what i just got the complete LotR movies in bluRay!!!!This time i'm planning to watch all the behind the scenes special features!
awesome!
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of course!i think we got it off amazon.
the previous one we had (which we gave away)had only the extended version for the Fellowship, and the Two Towers movies but not the Return of the King.
By the way question: does anyone know waht the name of the elf who (in the book) meets Aragorn when frodo gets stabbed by the wraith?
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I rather liked Glorfindel. He was a good character.
And what of Tom Bombadil? Who is brave enough to say they liked him?
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I was totally sad that Glorfindel wasn't in the movies. Or Tom Bombadil. They were like super amazing awesome characters.
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Tom should have been in the movie. Arwen replaced Glorfindel probably because it introduced her and made more way for the scene with Aragorn and Arwen. O3O
Connor wrote: "Yeah! Glorfindel is like, 20 bajillion times better than Arwen. :P"And Eowyn is a bajillion times better than Arwen :) Seriously, Eowyn is just awesome. Mainly because both she and Susan (from Narnia) had the desire to fight in the battle when women were looked down upon or kept from fighting. I like how she pursued her goal and never gave up, just proves that not every woman needs to act in that girly/prissy way.
I love Tom Bombadil, but I'm glad he wan't in the film-Tolkien left him a mystery deliberately and had a much slower pace in his book, if Jackson had included him in the film's he'd have to justify why and explain who he is ('Wait so there is this fat trippy hippy dude in the woods who is immune to the super deadly ring they are trying to destroy? And we don't know who he is? Hey wait a minute he's dropped out of the story...), and frankly I can't quite see the pace/tone of his scenes in the story fitting in, even in the Extended Edition of FOTR.
The extended version of the Two Towers film has the old man willow story set in Fangorn, but it is too little, too late and Treebeard is no Bombadil!The BBC audio "Tales from the Perilous Realm" does a great account of the Old Forest/Barrow Downs chapters, which makes up for their omission from the otherwise brilliant 26 part radio adaptations of The Lord of the Rings which is not only faithful to the text throughout, it also includes details taken from the Unfinished Tales. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Peter Jackson!
Actually PJ must have been aware of it because Frodo was played by a young chap called Ian Holm ... spot the family resemblance? John le Mesurier played a wonderfully world-weary Bilbo - I guess he already had that voice developed through Sgt Arthur Wilson!
I liked Bombadil from the moment on when I first met him. What's wrong with him? He's a jolly little man.Anyone who knows (about) Tolkien's languages or scripts? Especially the Elven tongues and tengwar?
I "know" a little bit of the languages but not to converse in it! I have yet to find a book which approaches the Middle Earth languages as a Primer would, which I feel is a great shame. A Gateway to Sindarin is an excellent book but very dense and overly scholarly, so that it is not so much a gateway as a secret door.
Hey guys, I've been learning the Elvish tongues (specifically Sindarin) and me and my brother love writing in the Tengwar. You should see our schoolroom! Every spare space on our schedules and white board is covered in the Elvin script. A great website with lesson by lesson learning is Council of Elrond. You should check it out!p.s. Anyone play Clash of clans? We should start our own clan!
