Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:

Scans of a new article and photos from Total Film magazine:
http://heirsofdurin.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/new-hobbit-article-in-total-film/

ComposerGuy posted:

I refuse to see this as a bad thing.

magimix posted:

The Silmarillion

Abnegatus posted:

I ripped the dwarven singing and am giving all my fellow goons access to the tracks. One has an ending dialogue attached to it, the other has it without.

http://soundcloud.com/abnegatus

If this doesn't let you download, just shoot me to another audio hosting site and I'll upload it there.

hepatizon posted:

For those who are digging the Misty Mountains song, my heretofore favorite version was done by some nobody nerds: http://www.canopymusic.net/canopy/Misty%20Mountains.mp3

Abnegatus posted:

Re-upped and linked, so enjoy:

Free MP3 download: The Dwarves - Misty Mountains.mp3

Free MP3 download: The Dwarves - Misty Mountains (with ending dialogue).mp3

Nuggan posted:

Radagast is alive during Lord of the Rings and I will be angry if this is changed.

TheBigBudgetSequel posted:

Bingo. My dad read me The Hobbit when I was no bigger THAN a Hobbit. Then in the summer of 2001 he handed me Fellowship of the Ring. "This is a sequel to the Hobbit. A movie is coming out this Christmas. Read the book beforehand."

Timby posted:

Why were you being read to when you were in the sixth grade?

Cpt. Spring Types posted:

I graduated from high school the year it came out, and it still makes me feel old thinking about it. People I graduated with have kids and careers now, and I'm like, "gently caress that, I'm still youn--poo poo I'm almost 30." Still, the nostalgia is one of the major reasons I'm excited for The Hobbit. Surely it won't be all that similar in tone with LOTR, but seeing all of the characters again looking exactly the same is some crazy poo poo.

Nilbop posted:

I disagree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlR_UEs4q9g

This is crap. In fact I intensely disliked every voice Rankin Bass vomited into our ears, but this one in particular bugged me. Smaug is not a drill boss from the American midwest. I don't know what I expected him to sound like, but this isn't it.

Kingtheninja posted:

This talk of necromancers sounds pretty awesome, is this all within the hobbit book? I might have to finally get off my rear end and read it.

canuckanese posted:

According to the appendices Gimli would have been 62 at the time of the battle. Not sure about Legolas but probably 1,000something.

mind the walrus posted:

YOU..... CAN NOT....... PASS!

Kemchimikemkem posted:

haha, what do teachers know anyway? My Grade 6 teacher was a really cool guy though and introduced me to Tolkien when he read The Hobbit to the class. I remember loving it so much, afterwards I was asking him about it and he was like there are THREE MORE BOOKS, A DIRECT SEQUEL. Holy poo poo, blew my little kid mind hearing that, and of course I went straight to the school library and took out Fellowship of the Ring. And it's still Bilbo but he's older and it's about his ring and nephew etc. Loved those books.

Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:

Someone just sent me this link which I thought was worth sharing. I dare anyone to listen to the whole 16:46 without

http://youtu.be/ME5urFBf0kk

Above Our Own posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs6WYlXjAuI May be more your speed then.

Nuggan posted:

THANK you. No one ever knows the difference.

Viridiant posted:

I remember Tolkien writing pretty much exactly that in one of his letters. The influence of the ring was so strong at the Cracks of Doom that no one could have resisted it.

That the ring was destroyed was entirely by a chance brought about by pity. Something that I don't see people bring up enough is just how screwed Middle Earth really was. Sauron even without the ring had the forces and influence to conquer all of Middle Earth. Had Gollum not slipped, had Bilbo and Frodo not shown pity, the army outside the Black Gate and then the rest of Middle Earth would have been absolutely screwed.

Jerusalem posted:

Was Fellowship the first time a movie did the "The bad guy is such a loving BEAST that when he gets stabbed through the gut he just grabs the weapon and hauls himself closer" spot?

Gimmedaroot posted:

Most of you probably know this, but the cool thing about Excalibur is the fact that it was made because director John Boorman was originally picked to make Lord of the Rings, but got hosed over in the rights. So he said: "Fuggit, lets just make a bad assed heavily fantasy oriented Arthurian movie that's dark and atmospheric." It is more magical and more graphically violent than any Arthurian movie that can before it.

wheatpuppy posted:

However, he also bought Arwen's horse as a gift for Jane Abbot, Liv Tyler's riding double. She had fallen in love with the horse but couldn't afford it so he gave it to her as a surprise gift.

Dan Didio posted:

Isn't there a Goblin King in the Hobbit!?

Lasagna posted:

I am not sure but I think that Isengard is the name of the place (narrow valley with river Isen and such), while Orthanc is the proper name of the tower.
By the way I always thought that the title had a double meaning, cause also Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul were confronting each other

Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:

Not exactly - Isengard (Angrenost if you're an elf) is the whole fortress and semi-artificial valley, Orthanc is the tower.

Wolfsheim posted:

I can only assume that, had J.R.R. been able to finish his works, the unabridged Silmarillion would show that immediately afterwards Tulkas turned to the other Valar and said "Remind me again why we didn't do that ten thousand years ago like I said we should?" and then Manwe tells him to stop being such a smartass.

webmeister posted:

Man, Silmarillion just has so many awesome moments. Even just thinking about that passage gives me goosebumps.

redshirt posted:

Sure, Orome scared a few, but most gathered round to hear some awesome campfire stories of huntin' n' poo poo.

FrensaGeran posted:

Then he raised up both his hands, and in one chord, deeper than the Abyss, higher than the Firmament, piercing as the light of the eye of Iluvatar, he sold a lemon.

Lizard Combatant posted:

I remember all the LotR soundtracks being released well before the film.

kiimo posted:

I think of all things they nailed that the best and that is saying something. Torn straight from my mind's eye.

Crackbone posted:

kiimo posted:

Just sitting around imagining Bar Refaeli and Natalie Portman with giant beards.

keep punching joe posted:

Bombadil just wants to talk in iambic pentameter, gently caress Goldberry, and be left alone. As awesome as he is, he was too weird for the movies (and would also undermine the dramatic tension as millions of viewers would say... "hey just give the ring to this dude")

TheBigBudgetSequel posted:

It makes sense why they cut it out though. In the book we haven't heard from Frodo and Sam since the Orcs took him to the tower and Sam learns that Shelob didn't kill him. So to go into ROTK, and have this dude from Sauron say "The Halfling suffered greatly." and give up the Mithril shirt, it's a sock to the jaw.

In the movie we know that Frodo and Sam are on their way to Mount Doom at that point.

Data Graham posted:

It's kinda amusing to realize that at the time the book was written, "smog" didn't exist (or hadn't been coined as a term).

So modern-day adaptation makers have often tried to sidestep the confusion by saying it like "Smowg", which I'm sure isn't right (Tolkien most likely meant the name to trip native-English-speaker reflexes, not follow Elvish pronunciation rules--same thing that fucks up people trying to say "Isengard"). But if they just pronounce it "Smog", the promo spots are gonna sound goofy.

"Desolation of the Dragon" would work fine if you ask me.