POst who your favourite characters and such are here.

Anything you want to post about LOTR, just post here.

Favorite Charecter

Pippin.

yeah, he was great, that billy boyd. seems like a nice chap, too.



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On a seperate note, I wish they would have adapted and filmed The Hobbit, it would have made a great movie or two.

I liked the Gary Coleman type ones.

whenpigeonscry said:

awesome!!

Fave characters: Aragorn and the Hobbits. Short people rule.


Who else thinks Sam and Frodo are in ?

jerseykrs said:

I've heard Peter Jackson is making a tv-serie of The Hobbit

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Aragorn has always been my favourite character but in the film his part isn't so good/important as in the books. Or it just doesn't show like that in the films.

My favourite character is Gollum!

I think I am starting to dislike the movies.

They are lavish and all, but have nothing to do with the LOTR book I have pictured in my mind since age 8.

I love the poetry in the books and the time Tolkien took to describe his world. My favorite characters have always been Gandalf and Treebeard.

HamsterHuey said:

I think everybody had different pictures in their minds - that's natural, so I believe that no-one could make those movies better - Peter Jackson's work was a "mission impossible" but he has triumphed!

And I love, love, (and) love (again) those movies!

HamsterHuey said:

blasphemy

DarkKnight1 said:

I poop on the people who ONLY love the movies.
If that makes me a snob, so be it.
I can understand people liking the movies, but APART from TOTALLY ADORING the book.

People who dislike both? I kinda like them too.

favourite? ghân-buri-ghân.

And i know it's hell to read through but only after reading Silmarillion you get a sense of just how multi-layered and thought-out LOTR really is.

And I'm with the hamster: you only like the movie? you just don't get it

AlfofMelmak said:

Then again, I am okay with people not liking it who are not into fantasy, Nordic mythology or poetry.

True, true: emphasis should be put upon the ONLY and in association with the comparison between the movies and the book.

btw, don't you think calling part 3 of the book/movie "the return of the king" the best spoiler ever?

HamsterHuey said:

I found the books extremely tedius.
Very well written pro's in very poorly constructed structure.
I mean, this bitch goes on for page after page after page in one story line, before reverting to another one--very hard to pay attention unless your prone to liking that kind of thing.

The movies are brilliantly done and constructed.
True--Jackson did an "interpretitation" of the book, and not a literally retelling of the story--but his interpretation is far less tedius than reading the book.

My apologies to those who are offended.

Just sayin'

It's a style on it's own, even in fantasy itself. It's the MOTHER of fantasy.

I came to hate every fantasy book that had one boy (or occasional girl) save mankind with just one 'heroic' act. It's boring.

I like Ribbit!

mrdespues said:

yaaaaay for the genius that was Tolkien and LOTR!

my favourite character has always been Sam second would be Arwen...oh damn I love all of them! even the evil uruks I found fascinating!

awww John you wait till you see this exhibition - it's SO awesome!

AlfofMelmak said:

I agree. I've read half of the Silmarillion and went back and started LOTR again and so many references to the ages made a LOT more sense and gave me much more insight into the detail and multi-layering of Arda (the planet on which the country Middle Earth is).

Huey, I agree that if you only like the movies, you're missing out. But not hatable. My mum only likes the movies, but that's because she doesn't get time to read. Anyway, moot points aside, the books are indeed much more detailed than the films, but Peter Jackson did a great job and I wish he'd do something with the Hobbit, or Lost Tales (which I haven't read yet but I've heard is great) or the Silmarillion (low on dialogue but high on history). PJ DID do a marvellous job, but Tolkien's own written word with never be beaten.

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R2D2!

Natisse said:

can't wait. and as an aside, everyone who I'm meeting on that day should excuse my "drunken" threads....I'm not quite as wacko in person. Not quite.

althom said:

mrdespues said:

Absolutely LOVE Tolkien's books and Jackson's films. The more Middle-Earth, the better!

Kayleigh said:

Not true. Jackson is currently working on a re-make of King Kong. He wants to do a film of The Hobbit, but right now the whole thing is tied up in legal hell. There are several companies battling for who has the film and distribution rights, and until that gets resolved there will be no film of Bilbo's adventures. Shame too, because I really wanna see Smaug on the big screen!

The first film (and one was all I could stomach) was one of the most wasted 17 hours of my cinema-going life...

What you say? It wasn't that long? ..sure seemed that long to me..


On a lighter note, at least I live near where Tolkien lived and wrote. The two towers came from two towers that my wife used to see a lot when she was growing up. So hey, after all these months of Birmingham bashing on the org, here's something about Birmingham for you LOTR fact-fans.
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