The Lord of the Rings

I prefer the films, the Books (hides from bookfans) could have done with a good editor. They're very much worth reading, but the films are fantastic. If you get the chance, watch the extended editions.
 
A bunch of us did that immediately after I got Return of the King Extended on DVD. I'd just recently bought a 50" plasma TV and an expensive 7.1 surround system. We all knew it HAD to be done.

12 hours later and we'd done and I never knew watching TV could be so tiring! But it was worth it.

Funny thing was, we drunk copious amounts of beer durung the showing, but we ran out half way through and sobered up by the end! Those films are loooooooong!
 
I hated "Fellowship". I moaned loudly all the way through it.

"That did not happen!" "Glorfindel did that and not Arwen!" "Where is Tom and Goldberry?" "Where is Old Man Willow?" "Where are The Barrow Downs?"

Sadly,Peter Jackson ruined it for me.
 
Couldn't agree more about setting a standard. I really can't see any epics or fantasy movies topping them for a while. The only real problem is that it does sag a tiny bit in The Two Towers.
 
I had real difficult reading the book because of Tom Bombodillo and the truly sinister Golderry. I was so relieved that they got rid of them for the film. The book takes far too long to get interesting and the inclusion of all that nonsense at the beginning before they even get to the Prancing Pony is IMHO terribly dull. It's like Tolkien forgot he was supposed to be writing a book about a quest relating to the ring, went off on a total tangent and then remembered what he was supposed to be writing about.

I love the books and I adored the films. I watch them back to back at least once a year and enjoy it 100% every time.
 
Fantastic films, Fellowship is my favourite, the opening Shire scenes warm my heart :D

Not to say they are perfect, I hate the warg attack in Two Towers, Two Towers is probably the weakest, all involved always said it was the hardest to film, i'm not surpised, overall they did a great job though.
 
I remember seeing the warg attack scene being previewed a week before Two Towers came out. It cut away just before they collided with the horses and I remember sh*tting bricks when i saw it. Have to say I was disappointed with it when I actually got to see it. Loved the music though in Two Towers, my favourite in the trilogy!
 
I enjoyed "Chocolat". My friend moaned.

I guess between us,we can't win!

I guess I have read "The Lord Of The Rings" so many times,I know the epic off by heart!
 
Thanks for that! When the extended DVD of Two Towers came out I particularly wanted to hear what the commentary said about that bit.

But the commentary didn't work .... I exchanged the DVD several times (not always at the same shop branch in case it was a dud batch), tried it on two different DVD players, but never got one that worked for me. (At one shop they tested it on two players, it worked on one but not the other).

Did anyone else have these problems?
 
I think anything that's based on a source material you know THAT intimately is always going to be a disappointment.

I was lucky in that respect, that when I saw the films I had recently read the book, so it was fresh in my mind, yet not ingrained to such an extent that it provided a distraction to me.

IMHO Jackson, Walsh and Boyens definitely did a great job seperating the wheat from the chaff, I mean, what did Tom Bombadil REALLY add to the story?
 
I read the books before the first movie came out and they were enjoyable to read. But the 3 movies are something extra special. I would say it's the best cinematic trilogy ever made. Simply brilliant! :cool:
 
Great posts everyone. Thanks very much. :)
I've definitely done the right thing watching them (no matter how late I am)

I haven't been at home all weekend, so I'm very much looking forward to watching the rest of The Two Towers tonight (I think the second part is 2 hours 20 minutes?)

Finish my A Levels in June so I might spend my long holiday reading the books. :D
 
I'm a big fan of Tolkien, and have all his books. I read them all way before the films were made. To be fair, they were never going to fit everything into the films. Some massive artistic license notwithstanding, I thought they did a great job. What's important is that they managed to capture the feel of the books without really detracting from the overall story.

The scene in FOTR where Sauron enters the battlefield is one of my all-time favourite scenes ever :D
 
I liked the warg attacks (I want a warg - nobody would f*** with you if you had a warg!) but thought the scene when Aragorn fell over the cliff was weak and uneccessary.

Tom Bombadil was missed out because it would add nothing to the story and would take a long time. It was cut from the radio adaptation for the same reason.

I thought a minute or two on the riddle of the sword at Bree would have been useful but the only major cut for me was no having the scouring of the Shire - which is great in the books because it produces the final downfall of Saruman and shows the Bilbo has done his part and leaves the leadership to Merry, Pippin and Sam who have grown dramatically as hobbits whilst away.

And I would have loved the first film to have started with the ring poem but hey.

Incredible movie making.

The books are great reading on a cold, dark winters night.
 
Ahh, I finally got to the end of ROTK last week after the 11 hour epic.
Thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it.

My favourite scene had to be the Battle of the Hornburg at Helm's Deep in the Two Towers. The extended version went on for about 15-20 minutes and I was just sat there with my mouth agape the whole way through..

Fantastic - the music, the acting, the direction. I don't think I would have liked no Saruman if I had seen it at the cinema...

I look forward to reading the books. :)
 
The cast commentary for TTT is brilliant! Dom and Billy are hilarious.

Then they mushily declare their mutual love for each other. *melts*
 
I have never read the books. But the movies, what can i say - absolutely OUTSTANDING!! I could watch them over and over and over again
 
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