Would you like to see more "Lord of The Rings" movies or books?
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Well, the money-sucking leeches will be making two movies out of "The Hobbit". Never mind that it's a book shorter than any of the "rings" trilogy.
I was so looking forward to "The Hobbit" as a movie made by the same folks who did the LOTR trilogy, until I'd read that they are going to make two long movies out of it. I would think you could make a really good, maybe even great two and a half hour movie out of "Hobbit".
As far as new movies using Tolkien's stuff, but not penned by Tolkien? Nah- I'd rather someone created an all new fantasy/adventure realm.
And NOT the one from "Willow"
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I was so looking forward to "The Hobbit" as a movie made by the same folks who did the LOTR trilogy, until I'd read that they are going to make two long movies out of it. I would think you could make a really good, maybe even great two and a half hour movie out of "Hobbit".
As far as new movies using Tolkien's stuff, but not penned by Tolkien? Nah- I'd rather someone created an all new fantasy/adventure realm.
And NOT the one from "Willow"
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Only if it has the logical conclusion: Frodo and Sam in a gay scene. Then right after the Sam/Frodo suckfest, right before the credits roll, Sam fucking flatout bricks in Frodo's mouth.
My thanks to Randal Graves and his succinct critique of LOTR.
My thanks to Randal Graves and his succinct critique of LOTR.
I would love to see some of his other stories in movie format. The tale of Túrin Turambar, the story of Beren and Lúthien, The story of the Fall of Gondolin, The Rise of Númenor, The story of the Nauglarín, those would all make for great movies, some maybe even better than the Peter Jackson trilogy. Someone on a Tolkien forum once said that they could have different directors make movies out of the many different stories in The Silmarillion. I think that would be a great idea.
Sorry, but the Silmarillion was written by him. It was published posthumously, but it was written by him. Christopher Tolkien only provides interspersed commentary. :hatsoff:
Sorry, but the Silmarillion was written by him. It was published posthumously, but it was written by him. Christopher Tolkien only provides interspersed commentary. :hatsoff:
I wouldn't mind watching more of it. I am however very disapointed that Peter Jackson won't be the one doing the Hobbit movie.
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I think it's pretty much concluded that chris tolkien did a great deal of revision of the material and found it necessary to include several instances of his own writing.
from wikipedia said:
There is only one LOTR which has been written and shot on film. So there isn't anything else to do on this matter.
Hobbit will surely happen sooner or later, but it will probably not be as brilliant as LOTR. It is a much simpler story, less characters, a straightforward road movie. Smaug may look interesting though.
I would however love to see more fantasy films made to the point of perfection as the LOTR movies.
Hobbit will surely happen sooner or later, but it will probably not be as brilliant as LOTR. It is a much simpler story, less characters, a straightforward road movie. Smaug may look interesting though.
I would however love to see more fantasy films made to the point of perfection as the LOTR movies.
There was an also animated film done for the first and parts of the second book titled "lord of the rings", and a different animated film for the third book "return of the king." Most people don't like them, but I don't think they are that bad, especially ROTK.
I didn't necessarily mean for LOTR (I just said that in the title so people would know what I was talking about) just for the fantasy world and characters in it which appear in other books or could potentially appear in new stories.
The biggest problem with it is that Tolkien is long dead, and he won't be writing it or even giving his blessing to the people that would be creating the work so I don't know how well it would turn out. A lot of time even his family can't agree on what should be done with his work. That is different, for example, than George Lucas letting people expand on Star Wars like was talked about in the other thread, and maybe why people don’t try it. A lot of the fans of the original stuff might now see the new things as nothing more than very well funded and glorified fanon. Then again the Cthulhu Mythos has been expended since Lovecraft worked on it and Star Trek has been greatly expanded by work other than Gene Rodenberry. Even then both those people were alive when a lot of it was done and were more or less excepting of it. That can’t really be the case with Tolkien.
Not really, don't forget the crappy conversions *before* the successfull Peter Jackson trilogy.
"Lord of the Nap" is what I like to call those movies.............boring!
I heard that only one of the movies will be "The Hobbit" the other is supposed to be a "Young Aragorn" movie. Eh, either way, I expect these to suck. :crying:
I don't know much about star trek, but I do know that lovecraft encouraged other people to use his story ideas and never really considered them, or writing at all for that matter, to be a very serious concern. I really don't have any idea how Tolkien would feel about it, but I get the impression that he wasn't all that concerned with publication either, since the majority of the things that he wrote were never completed during his lifetime. As I understand it, he pretty much wrote the Hobbit just for his kids and after it's success the publisher wanted a sequel, which was why he wrote LOTR, which was nearly never published either because he kept revising and adding onto it- eventually ending up as six books, each one about as long as the original Hobbit, and finally completed and published like ten years later.
This is one trilogy I could not stand either in movie or book form. The movies are 9 hours of my life I'm never going to get back. I dont know why I went to see all three, I was bored after The Fellowship, peer pressures a bitch :1orglaugh.
As for the books, they were just as bad as the movies IMO, I suppose if I were to describe them in a word it would be, dull.
:dunno:
As for the books, they were just as bad as the movies IMO, I suppose if I were to describe them in a word it would be, dull.
:dunno:
LotR were fantastic movies, but I don't actually enjoy the setting all that much. The Hobbit is basically a fairytale, and most of the other books read like very dull histories.
I'd much rather see ASoIaF see the light of day. Come on, HBO - get your asses moving!
I'd much rather see ASoIaF see the light of day. Come on, HBO - get your asses moving!
No, not really.
I think the original books were good and all. But knowing how crappy (and often over-confident) writers tend to misjudge their understanding of a certain idea, it would probably just ruin it all.
Tolkien made a good piece of work, but it should be treasured and not exploited.
I think making spinoffs and such, without the blessing of the original creator, often just means you disrespect someone else's work. You're basically implying that you're at the same level as the author when thinking you can just add stuff like you want and affect the timeline. In some cases it's like inevitable and works quite fine (like the Star Wars franchise) but in the LOTR case, it would just mean adding crap to a near perfect fantasy setting -- as most people could never compare to Tolkien and the style he uses (with poems and remarks popping up now and then.)
Although the LOTR franchise is not my favorite, I'd hate to see it get over-exploited.
I think the original books were good and all. But knowing how crappy (and often over-confident) writers tend to misjudge their understanding of a certain idea, it would probably just ruin it all.
Tolkien made a good piece of work, but it should be treasured and not exploited.
I think making spinoffs and such, without the blessing of the original creator, often just means you disrespect someone else's work. You're basically implying that you're at the same level as the author when thinking you can just add stuff like you want and affect the timeline. In some cases it's like inevitable and works quite fine (like the Star Wars franchise) but in the LOTR case, it would just mean adding crap to a near perfect fantasy setting -- as most people could never compare to Tolkien and the style he uses (with poems and remarks popping up now and then.)
Although the LOTR franchise is not my favorite, I'd hate to see it get over-exploited.
