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Post by AshVersion2 on Mar 10, 2007 15:47:18 GMT -5
*gasp* No one has made a thread about this yet! *tsk tsk*
So - LOTR is glompable in every way.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 15, 2007 8:16:42 GMT -5
Yep. I liked it a lot, have since I saw it in that cold winter day which I will remember forever cause when we got home from the movie theatre we couldn't walk up the hill to my house for all the snow. It was just like Caradhras. It was sweet. I dislike, though, the Internet-insanity-fangirls-"loter" culture. This does not mean that I do not believe Aragorn is attractive. I have a real replica (lol...it's steel...) of Narsil. Go me. My favorite is RotK.
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Post by Ethan on Mar 15, 2007 11:53:09 GMT -5
I liked the two towers better, for some reason...the RotK kinda dragged, but book version of it was the best of all the three
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 15, 2007 12:03:12 GMT -5
I like it for the speech at the Black Gates. Among other things.
I read the books when I was really young. Some things Mr. Jackson did well and some he didn't, but most he did. I love how real it looks.
LotR spawned/inspired so much. Whether that is good or bad...Tolkien drew his inspiration from Nordic tales (magic rings, immortal elves) and British legends (dragons, war). He has since become the template for almost every fantasy story ever since.
The writing was amazing. One also cannot anywhere near imitate it unless one actually wants to write lots of description of world-concreting and history/linguistics along with excellent characterization and building on archetypes. (Now, however, Gandalf is the archetype Merlin once was.) Tolkein was a literary genius in more ways than one.
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Post by Ethan on Mar 15, 2007 12:08:20 GMT -5
Very well put...the LotR is just plain amazing (I feel so...unintelligent after you post because that is all I can say)
Have you read the Similarian (sp?)...I didn't like it, at all. I swear it's like 600 pages of narrative. It seemed too much like a history text book.
Anyways, back to the topic...in the first LotR (FotR), when they are at the part with Lurch (that really creepy orc guy...I think it's there), anyways, they go down this really deep hole, and all the orcs are like mining or doing something...one of them is wearing sneakers.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 15, 2007 12:13:16 GMT -5
lol! I havn't seen that one. I've seen where in the first movie Frodo and Sam are walking up the hill where Sam says "This is the farthest from home I've ever been," or somesuch. If you look in the background if it's widescreen you can see a car on the road. Look for the dust it raises. The Uruk-Hai general was cool. All other orcs--gross. I read a little bit about Norse mythology lately and I like it alot. That's most of the reason why that post sounds so smart. I read part of the Silmarillion. It did get boring after a while. I think that part of what makes LotR so alluring is that Tolkein himself loved his created world. He was that fascinated by it, to write 600 pages of narrative history. I wish I were so obsessed with my own stories! I guess if they're good, I will be.
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Post by Ethan on Mar 15, 2007 12:16:27 GMT -5
lol, with your writing, you should be...it kind of makes you wonder if like Tolkien was actually writing about a real place. lol, maybe he was somehow transported to Middle Earth and went on that adventure, and experienced the world he is just that descriptive...
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Post by Techy on Mar 19, 2007 19:05:26 GMT -5
Yeah, Tolkien inspired me for my newest world/story. So has Mercedes Lackey, but it was Tolkien who started me on it.
I drew a (so far) horrible map, and created (changed every letter into random dots and lines and moved the letters around in their order) my own elvin language. And the story I'm wrking on I do get kinda obsessive over, during the good parts. But I'm currently afraid that I'm not building my characters up properly, cause I can't quite describe their personality. But I've gotten better, all I have to do is keep working on it. No way am I near as good as all these awesome authors we talk about (and on this site).
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Post by stickers! on Mar 19, 2007 19:25:41 GMT -5
I re-read the books a little while ago and re-watched the movies a few weeks ago. Amazing.
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Post by AshVersion2 on Mar 20, 2007 11:46:25 GMT -5
I re-watched the movies and the special features of them obsessively for bout a week a few weeks ago. It always does good. ;D
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Post by abby on Mar 21, 2007 6:50:22 GMT -5
i personally am in love with lotr, i was/am obssessive (sp?) with it, over the last two years i have watched it so much my mom knows all the lines, as do i . i love aragorn!!!!
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Post by AshVersion2 on Mar 21, 2007 10:17:57 GMT -5
Aragorn rules!!!!!!!! I'm pretty much like that whenever I watch the movies. ;D
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Post by Techy on Mar 21, 2007 12:42:38 GMT -5
Of course! all of my friends are as huge fans as am I ;D
It wouldn't be right any other way
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Post by AshVersion2 on Mar 21, 2007 14:27:42 GMT -5
Cool. ;D
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Post by Techy on Mar 22, 2007 11:25:40 GMT -5
lovely post there Ash
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