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Tolkien (the movie)
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RE: Tolkien (the movie)
April 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm
(April 14, 2019 at 10:34 am)Kit Wrote: Looking forward to seeing this.

For historical accuracy, it will have to be a movie of a four-hour conversation about theology in a pub, with C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams.
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RE: Tolkien (the movie)
April 14, 2019 at 7:11 pm
(April 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm)Belaqua Wrote:
(April 14, 2019 at 10:34 am)Kit Wrote: Looking forward to seeing this.

For historical accuracy, it will have to be a movie of a four-hour conversation about theology in a pub, with C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams.

From what I've seen JRR will be day dreaming a lot.
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RE: Tolkien (the movie)
April 14, 2019 at 8:59 pm
(April 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm)Belaqua Wrote:
(April 14, 2019 at 10:34 am)Kit Wrote: Looking forward to seeing this.

For historical accuracy, it will have to be a movie of a four-hour conversation about theology in a pub, with C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams.

May we pray to all that is sacred FSM Sad he never hears of the Silmarillion. I would rather sit through Wagner's ring cycle in Latin.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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RE: Tolkien (the movie)
April 15, 2019 at 6:11 am
(April 14, 2019 at 8:59 pm)Succubus Wrote:
(April 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm)Belaqua Wrote: For historical accuracy, it will have to be a movie of a four-hour conversation about theology in a pub, with C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams.

May we pray to all that is sacred FSM Sad he never hears of the Silmarillion. I would rather sit through Wagner's ring cycle in Latin.

Mein Gott! Nein!!!!!
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RE: Tolkien (the movie)
April 15, 2019 at 8:03 am
(April 14, 2019 at 6:18 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(April 14, 2019 at 6:08 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, to be fair, I will admit that all of Jackson's Tolkien films are very accurate representations of what Jackson imagines the books are like.

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And he used those calendar artists for concept art. So he was doing what most people thought Middle Earth looked like.

Which explains all the pointed ears and getting the hobbit feet all wrong.  But that's trivial.  My main objections to Jackson's films include (but are not limited to):

-Mucking up the motivations and personalities of several main characters (Théoden, Thorin)

-Have characters in the wrong places at the wrong times (Arwen, Gimli).

-Rushing through the important bits (The Council of Elrond, the ride of the Rohirrim) and stretching out the dull bits (self evident).

-Leaving Radagast out of LOTR and shoving him into The Hobbit, where he had no bloody business being.

-Leaving out Bombadil entirely.

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April 15, 2019 at 8:11 am
Horrors.
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RE: Tolkien (the movie)
April 15, 2019 at 9:56 am
(April 15, 2019 at 8:11 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Horrors.

Apos.  LOTR is one of the few things that make me go 'full nerd'.  Smile

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RE: Tolkien (the movie)
April 15, 2019 at 11:56 am
(April 15, 2019 at 9:56 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(April 15, 2019 at 8:11 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Horrors.

Apos.  LOTR is one of the few things that make me go 'full nerd'.  Smile

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So what happened to the green wizards?
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RE: Tolkien (the movie)
April 15, 2019 at 1:12 pm
(April 15, 2019 at 11:56 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(April 15, 2019 at 9:56 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Apos.  LOTR is one of the few things that make me go 'full nerd'.  Smile

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So what happened to the green wizards?

What green wizards?  I'm aware of the blue wizards ('They went to the East and do not come into this tale...').  That what you meant?

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RE: Tolkien (the movie)
April 15, 2019 at 1:29 pm (This post was last modified: April 15, 2019 at 1:29 pm by Gawdzilla Sama.)
Yeah, them. Why did they go east?
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