Its a nomination thread and a poll thread at least, but theres just no way that you just offered gabriel byrne from millers crossing up as bloom-level
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
I think Emilia Clarke feels left out.
― chap, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
He's hollow-eyed and banal but I've come to accept, even quite like Bloom as Legolas. Don't @ me.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
I very fuckin will
Anyway there's a thread for this
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
Somehow this discussion of Our Presidetn has reminded me of a song I began writing for the Hallmark Movie version of LOTR🎶 What do your Elf Eyes Seeeeeee?They see me seeing you seeing meeeee🎶
― Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
Another of the scenes Jackson got right was the Orcs beset by the Rohirrim. Tolkien’s account of M&P escaping is weirdly slack (altho its great to see Pippin in trickster mode).
― Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
I don't mind Bloom, though film Legolas isn't anything like my image of the book Legolas (more of a general elf issue, perhaps). It's also missing some fun moments like his petulance at being blindfolded in Lorien.
― jmm, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
tolkien grew up around birmingham alabamaHis muse the statue ov Vulcan on Red Mountain---hard to pick a pic, but here's a bunch:https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1Tcwrqo0yDVgtFIxqLCwsLA0TEqxNLA0NUgzMDS3MqgwSTS1MDFONEw1NDQxSU7z4i0rzUlOzFMoLkksKU0FACeSElE&q=vulcan+statue&oq=Vulcan+sta&aqs=chrome.1.0i355j46i175i199j0i433j69i57j0l2j0i395l4.8294j1j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
― dow, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
Can I just say:I am a mere chapter or so away from finishing Two TowersIt has been notable for me to see how rich the character of Faramir is, how much depth he was given in the book vs the short shrift he gets in the movieAlso I love the scene in the book where Faramir warns Frodo that the path they’re taking into the mountains is bad & dangerous & that Gollum seems to him to be capable of murder: and Frodo’s heartbreaking response, like “wtf am I supposed to do, go back? turn around? I have to follow him.” The whole trek to Shelob’s lair is SO tense & scary, largely because of that shadow cast by Faromir & the knowledge that Frodo knows theyre likely being led into danger & goes anyway :(
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
Is this your first read or just fresh?
Faramir is a great character for his fairly small role
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 03:31 (three years ago) link
Book Four might be my favourite. All of those wild landscapes, deep in enemy-occupied territory. A basic overarching problem to solve (how to get into Mordor), as backdrop to the complexity introduced by Gollum. It's so good.
― jmm, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
Seconding those landscapes, and what a flow -- the hard edges of the Emyn Muil, the rotten growth of the Dead Marshes, the blasted landscape before the Black Gate, the ruined beauty of Ithilien, the slow transition into the desolation of Morgul Vale and all that entails. All of it described just so.
My entry into the Tolkien Fandom oral histories at Marquette recently went live:
https://cdm16280.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16280coll11/id/509/rec/1
And I was reminded about how my focus was indeed those landscapes and the grounding. I need to make that the focus of a future episode.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
xpost i had only read hobbit many times & fellowship once like 10 years ago, i dont think i havs ever made it through the whole trilogy
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
Oh wow
Thread is now hallowed ground so
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 03:57 (three years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
My childhood copies were the 1977 Ballantines with Tolkien’s art on the covers. I’m overdue for a reread and it seems critically important for me to get that edition now. Then again, I’ve never read the 50th anniversary cleanup text and I probably should.
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 04:19 (three years ago) link
the cleanup text is where they cut bombadil entirely
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 09:45 (three years ago) link
Looking fwd to my 50th anniversary cleanup text, ive taken the liberty of preparing extensive notes of suggested excisions, ive mentioned the main one a few times on other threads iirc
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 09:47 (three years ago) link
cleanup ilx: no mark s
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 09:54 (three years ago) link
If you removed all the nomarks......
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 09:58 (three years ago) link
Excited for VG. Let us know how it's going.
― Rocky Thee Stallion (PBKR), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 12:41 (three years ago) link
Why deems this is EXACTLY what you want to do, right now, at this historical moment in the world, I know.
For the first time in IMAX, experience the magic of Middle-Earth. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is making its debut on the BIG screen. Remastered by Peter Jackson in stunning 4K, experience the epic in IMAX theatres Feb 5. Reserve your seat: https://t.co/LBzdw8tML0 pic.twitter.com/Q9wexUkRAx— IMAX (@IMAX) February 3, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/UaxLXY3Uq3 pic.twitter.com/x1X3XZU0XL— karen han (@karenyhan) February 3, 2021
lol the replies on that are great too
me reuniting with my homies who died watching lotr pic.twitter.com/0Yqqnt7g3R— tc (@chillmage) February 3, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
I'm not clear about the "first time in IMAX" claim. What was I watching the first time around when I saw the trilogy at an IMAX?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
it is a mystery
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
It's the remastering in 4K being referred to (the Hobbit films were filmed directly in 4K, by comparison).
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Wasnt godwin a minor elf
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
No wtf, darwin its the darwin award
Can we go back
I’ve been finding this map very helpful in locating myself in the books: http://lotrproject.com/map
― Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 4 February 2021 04:21 (three years ago) link
whoa that is cool af
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 04:33 (three years ago) link
also I finished Two Towers :DOn to Return of the King, and finally joining the Appendices (Nerd) Club™️
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
Welcome welcome
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 February 2021 04:41 (three years ago) link
I was just playing around with that map site earlier today.
The Emyn Muil always really intrigued me. I think that's where I'd set up my hermit hut.
― jmm, Thursday, 4 February 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link
"R. Baranduin (Brandywine)"
^^ encapsulates so much about Tolkien's sensibilities
― jmm, Thursday, 4 February 2021 05:31 (three years ago) link
Gimli waxing poetic for a page and a half about the beauty of the caverns at Hem’s Deep. *chef’s kiss*
― Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 4 February 2021 05:43 (three years ago) link
Theoden is the Puddleglum of LOTR. On the heels of victory at Helm’s Deep and on finding that his losses on the plain of battle were fewer than he had imagined AND that Edoras was defended, he still has time to mope “Well, I probably won’t get to enjoy it long. Prolly gonna die soon.”
― Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 4 February 2021 05:51 (three years ago) link
lmao true
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 06:35 (three years ago) link
meanwhile this is so stupid i love it
MY FRIEND JUST SEND ME THIS WTF HAHAHA pic.twitter.com/GoamRyL2tV— Kayjii (@kayjii) February 2, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 06:37 (three years ago) link
Very stupid, but I am loling.
― Rocky Thee Stallion (PBKR), Thursday, 4 February 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link
upper-level arda map-nerd lore
1: https://i.imgur.com/LqFv5.jpg
2: https://www.theonering.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/first_age_of_arda.gif
― mark s, Thursday, 4 February 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
lol sorry the first jpg is made of pure neutronium apparently
― mark s, Thursday, 4 February 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link
that top map certainly looks a lot like europe, asia, and the middle east
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 February 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
Bottom map not v like africa/gulf
― cpt otm (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 February 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
?
Never got too far into maplore, wary of finding out that it was all v literal to real world ppl/places which imo starts to spoil things
yeah in the bottom map, middle earth etc. don't look as much like eurasia, but harad and co. look a lot like africa and the middle east
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 February 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
First map was the Iron Crown role-playing map, second is the god Fonstad working off Tolkien’s sketch.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 February 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
Im feeling free to disregard irl geography anyways numenoreans are the irish this is canon
― cpt otm (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 February 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
big if true (and mostly looking bad for the irish) (deems is aragorn, he's fine)
wasn't tolk imagining arda as our own earth in its infancy? (an early title for the silmarillion was LOL FVCK GONDWANALAND)
― mark s, Thursday, 4 February 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link