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Who's with me? I see there are some haters, but who likes it still? It is so cool and epic and based on a book and di' I mention cool?
Oh tanks ronin of Kirai, even if you do hate it

yeah i love LOTR too the books are pretty much the best fantasy books i have ever read and i really like the card game

Lobo wrote:yeah i love LOTR too the books are pretty much the best fantasy books i have ever read and i really like the card game

The card game? Cool. WHat are some of your rares? Have you done good in tournaments, if you do them? I, personally, am really bad at the game, but it was fun anyway.

I still need to read the series (I'm only half-way through The Hobbit -_-), but the movies are awesome. I'm sure the books are just as good, if not better.

oro!girl7 wrote:The card game? Cool. WHat are some of your rares? Have you done good in tournaments, if you do them? I, personally, am really bad at the game, but it was fun anyway.

well my rarest card is the witch king black captain foil. no tournaments down here but my friend and i play it every now and than. i'am not that great myself but i almost beat my friend yesterday

i love it

LOTR has to be perhaps one of the best movie series out there. I mean... now where do you get such a awesome CGI character like Gollum. Yoda can't even touch what th eguys at WETA and Andy Serkis did with that character.

Even the Balrog (though I don't agree with Jackson's interpretation at all) was awesome.

yay i'm with you all on that one! it is getting kinda irritating (the whole 'movie craze' thing).... but it'll still always be one of my favorites! and the books are sooo awesome!!! yay for LOTR!!!!!!

The thing tat upsets me when you get the crazed Legolas girl fans. It's ok to obesess bout Orlando Bloom but by doing that to Legolas, you're doing a injustice to the character.

Yay i agree that this is one best series. But some things that they changed in the book to movie i don't agree with but it was still good. I really like the extended versions. My fav character is Gandalf both grey and white all the others are cool too.

YYEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!! I love LOTR! It's sooooo awesome!

IT IS awesome! I know 'cause how else will someone be persuaded to watch a three and a half, maybe four hour movie and still like it. i do wish they added a couple of chapters like the one with Tom Bombadil and the hobbits saving the shire. Those were a couple of my favorites. The books are better, in my opinion, but all media have their strong points. It doesn't take you two weeks to watch the movies! but maybe to read a book, unless you're an imsomniac.

Of course, I love LOTR despite those crazy Legolas and Aragorn fangirls! I'm a Frodo and Gandalf the White fan! ^__^

I liked the first movie, the second was all right, and the third.... I haven't seen. You see, I seem to have this problem when it comes to trilogies: I never can seem to see the last one. To this day, despite having seen Star Wars episodes IV and V many, many times, I have never ever seen VI. Of course I'll see it someday, but I just can't seem to get around to it.

EDIT: I think my main problem with not liking the second was mainly that it was too long. Really long movies tend to bore me. If a movie is over two hours, I usually have to take a break and watch part of it later. Short attention span I guess.

Trying to get some competition to the "Hate LOTR" thread eh?

oro!girl7 wrote:Who's with me? I see there are some haters, but who likes it still? It is so cool and epic and based on a book and di' I mention cool?
Oh tanks ronin of Kirai, even if you do hate it

Your welcome I know without my presence you'd prolly shiver and die like an ant...

Anyway I would like too make it clear that I still think LOTR is a very good movie..but when your parents watch it almost everyday and you dont care for knightss to much..it gets old...VERY!!! fast

Hey ho, to the bottle i go,
to heal my heart and drown my woe!
Rain may fall, and wind may blow,
but there still be.... Many miles to go!

Sweet is the sound of the pouring rain,
and the stream that falls from hill to plain!
Better than rain, or rippling brook..... Is a mug of beer inside this Took!

Yes...i'd say i like it. *_* In fact i LOVE IT!!! *gollom gollom*

Intresting thing that Jackson did is take some of the songs (Hobbit Drinking song and Pippin's song) and combine them to other songs in the books.

For instance, Pippin's song can be found in Fellowship of the Ring, chapter 3 where Frodo, Sam, and Pippin are making there way to Buckleberry Ferry

"Home is behind, the world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat, and bread,
And then all to bed! And then all to bed!"

Then the Hobbit drinking song can be found in Fellowship at chapter 4 where Pippin, Frodo, and Sam are taking a bath in Frodo's new house in Crickethallow.

"Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
And many miles be still to go,
Bu tunder a tall tree I will lie,
And let the clouds go sailing by."

Other part of that song i sosmewhere but I forget.

Ronin of Kirai wrote:Your welcome I know without my presence you'd prolly shiver and die like an ant...

Anyway I would like too make it clear that I still think LOTR is a very good movie..but when your parents watch it almost everyday and you dont care for knightss to much..it gets old...VERY!!! fast

Oro? "without my prescence" he says " you'd prolly shiver and die like an ant..." he says. No, preciouss, I don't know what the little knightsshater means, either.

You see, I don't understand how one can get tired of itss, that i can't. *gutteral sound*

hee hee I played Gollum in my youth group fund raiser play last spring. People think I'm cheating and I have a recorder of someort saying the line sunderneath my clothes.

I have everything done about him from the way he coughs, to his movements, to his high pitched scream, to his facial features, and even his schizo scene.

Oh I was reading Two Towers for the ump-teenth time and I was on Chapter 6: The King of the Golden Hall and Aragorn says a line that was given to Theoden. It shows that Aragorn knows much about the Rohirrum. He sings a old song that is guessed by Legolas to be of the Rohirrum. Aragorn then translates it into the Common Tougne:

"Where was the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and th ebright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
etc...ya get the picture.

The first line is when Theoden is being outfitted in armor and he recites that.

Hitokiri wrote:Intresting thing that Jackson did is take some of the songs (Hobbit Drinking song and Pippin's song) and combine them to other songs in the books.

For instance, Pippin's song can be found in Fellowship of the Ring, chapter 3 where Frodo, Sam, and Pippin are making there way to Buckleberry Ferry

"Home is behind, the world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat, and bread,
And then all to bed! And then all to bed!"

Then the Hobbit drinking song can be found in Fellowship at chapter 4 where Pippin, Frodo, and Sam are taking a bath in Frodo's new house in Crickethallow.

"Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
And many miles be still to go,
Bu tunder a tall tree I will lie,
And let the clouds go sailing by."

Other part of that song i sosmewhere but I forget.

You forgot the bath song composed by Bilbo and sung by Pippin in Crickhallow (sp?) in the book. While the purist in me dislikes moving things out of context, I do have to admit I liked seeing the usage of some of Tolkien's verses.

AnimeHeretic wrote:You forgot the bath song composed by Bilbo and sung by Pippin in Crickhallow (sp?) in the book. While the purist in me dislikes moving things out of context, I do have to admit I liked seeing the usage of some of Tolkien's verses.

Isn't that the bath song I just said?

some wierdo wrote:"Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
And many miles be still to go,
Bu tunder a tall tree I will lie,
And let the clouds go sailing by."

Hitokiri wrote:Isn't that the bath song I just said?

You are so right. I must have missed that line.

Some parts of the Lord of the Rings book (are a bit hard to read), but its still one of my favourite books. I've read the Hobbit, the Silmarillion (now that's a toughie!) and the Book of Lost Tales 1 and 2 and Unfinished Tales but the last three books are a bit on the heavy side. I really enjoyed the long 11 hour movie, although parts were changed and bits removed "Scouring of the Shire" and "Barrowights" were the only parts I wished they included and hadn't. I have to say Chronicles of Narnia is also great Christian fiction.

Warrior 4 Jesus wrote:Some parts of the Lord of the Rings book (are a bit hard to read), but its still one of my favourite books. I've read the Hobbit, the Silmarillion (now that's a toughie!) and the Book of Lost Tales 1 and 2 and Unfinished Tales but the last three books are a bit on the heavy side. I really enjoyed the long 11 hour movie, although parts were changed and bits removed "Scouring of the Shire" and "Barrowights" were the only parts I wished they included and hadn't. I have to say Chronicles of Narnia is also great Christian fiction.

I think the only section of Silmarilon I was able to read was the chapter on the ring. I tried some of Unfinished tales, but just couldn't get into it. I did like "Leaf, By Niggle" (I don't remember which book that was in) which was a good allegory for death and purgatory.

I read the Silmarillion....it's like reading the Bible in King James! But, with enough will-power and a dictionary by my side, I could finish it. I really enjoyed it, especially the start. It reminds me of The Magician's Nephew. It was cool to see where Shelob and a lot of other character's line falls. I have to read it again some time, though, 'cause it has been a couple of years.

oro!girl7 wrote:I read the Silmarillion....it's like reading the Bible in King James! But, with enough will-power and a dictionary by my side, I could finish it. I really enjoyed it, especially the start. It reminds me of The Magician's Nephew. It was cool to see where Shelob and a lot of other character's line falls. I have to read it again some time, though, 'cause it has been a couple of years.

I see there was a lot I missed then. Well, since it's been 10-15 years since I last attempted it, I should try to find a copy and try again. Maybe age will give me more patience.

I usually read the Silmarillion 3 times a year...I just finished it a few months ago. Everyone says it's hard to read but if you have a nack for Tolkien's writing style, complex events, thousands of characters names (gosh I get Finrods, Felgunds, Fingolfins, Finarfin's name's mixed up more times then I can count!), and a history book-esque story telling, then it's up your alley.

I love the book. Defiently "Of Beren and Luthein".

Main reason I had trouble with it is because I have dyslexia. Took me about a week to read (not full on) but it was a very enjoyable, if difficult read.

I enjoyed reading the appendix of LOTR. Did anyone else? I might be a bit of a bookworm, but it was cool to see what happened after the story and a few stories not put in it, though the family trees and grammar went over my head.