The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit/Anything Tolkien Cult

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Honestly, LOTR movies are better than the books (sometimes the books are sooo boring), but Hobbit book is way better than the movie (why did they have to drag it to three movies??).

 They wanted it to be more like the lotr movies, since they were successful. So they added more stuff about the ring that they didn’t need, made it into 3 movies, and overall ruined it. It also used a lot more CGI than the LOTR movies, and the backgrounds were sometimes I bit too in depth, making it harder to focus on the characters

 Yeah, if they’d trimmed it down to 2 movies and the studio hadn’t mandated bullshit like the Tauriel Kili love triangle (AAAAAA) it could’ve been great. I did appreciate them expanding parts of the source material like actually showing the White Council and Dol Guldur stuff instead of Gandalf just talking about it and showing more of Thorin’s backstory, expanding Thranduil by incorporating his retconned backstory and alt character (Tolkien was considering making him Thingol, that’s why he was never named in the book), and making Bard an actual character but that honestly just makes me sad cause it shows how much PJ and co really knew and cared about the lore. It could have been amazing if they’d just been able to do their thing.

 I care about the lore, but i mean im no expert like some, id say im like a level above the average knowledge, but some people read like all of tolkiens works and do tons of research and even learn how to write and speak elvish and etc

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I really enjoy the movies and I’m reading the books. Extended Edition is the best. THE HOBBIT book is way better than the movie, the movie could’ve done so much better. I watch Extended Edition LOTR twice a year and the hobbit trilogy about once. I also read the hobbit a fair amount. Currently reading the first lotr book

 Yeah agreed, tho I think the Hobbit extended editions are miles better than the normal ones. At least the first two, there’s no saving the Battle of Five armies 

 THERES EXTENDED VERSIONS OF THE HOBBIT??? OMG

 Yeah they’re actually pretty good. Much more character stuff in them they left out of the normal ones. 

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Honestly, LOTR movies are better than the books (sometimes the books are sooo boring), but Hobbit book is way better than the movie (why did they have to drag it to three movies??).

 They wanted it to be more like the lotr movies, since they were successful. So they added more stuff about the ring that they didn’t need, made it into 3 movies, and overall ruined it. It also used a lot more CGI than the LOTR movies, and the backgrounds were sometimes I bit too in depth, making it harder to focus on the characters

 Yeah, if they’d trimmed it down to 2 movies and the studio hadn’t mandated bullshit like the Tauriel Kili love triangle (AAAAAA) it could’ve been great. I did appreciate them expanding parts of the source material like actually showing the White Council and Dol Guldur stuff instead of Gandalf just talking about it and showing more of Thorin’s backstory, expanding Thranduil by incorporating his retconned backstory and alt character (Tolkien was considering making him Thingol, that’s why he was never named in the book), and making Bard an actual character but that honestly just makes me sad cause it shows how much PJ and co really knew and cared about the lore. It could have been amazing if they’d just been able to do their thing.

 I care about the lore, but i mean im no expert like some, id say im like a level above the average knowledge, but some people read like all of tolkiens works and do tons of research and even learn how to write and speak elvish and etc

 Yeah, I’m the last one.

I do admire you, I just don’t have time for learning languages, and if I ended up learning one it would probably have to be a real one

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I really enjoy the movies and I’m reading the books. Extended Edition is the best. THE HOBBIT book is way better than the movie, the movie could’ve done so much better. I watch Extended Edition LOTR twice a year and the hobbit trilogy about once. I also read the hobbit a fair amount. Currently reading the first lotr book

 Yeah agreed, tho I think the Hobbit extended editions are miles better than the normal ones. At least the first two, there’s no saving the Battle of Five armies 

 THERES EXTENDED VERSIONS OF THE HOBBIT??? OMG

 Yeah they’re actually pretty good. Much more character stuff in them they left out of the normal ones. 

 I’ll definitely have to look into this

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I do admire you, I just don’t have time for learning languages, and if I ended up learning one it would probably have to be a real one

 Yeah that’s the normal and balanced thing to do lol.

Ok, for new years: Reasons why Tolkien is the most badass author of all time.

Fought in World War One and got a bunch of medals, came back and hiked through the most dangerous mountains in Switzerland as a holiday or something (wtf), then promptly co-wrote the Oxford English Dictionary, invented the genre of modern fantasy and wrote the biggest selling book of the 20th century to present about it. Then wrote several languages, the entire Middle Earth legendarium and a shit ton of other stuff, translated some untranslated Norse Myths to English for fun and died.

What an absolute Chad.

I thought he fought in the Somme in WW1, guess I was wrong

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I thought he fought in the Somme in WW1, guess I was wrong

 MY BAD I MEANT ONE AUTOCORRECT SUCKS AKDMTND

Random thoughts about the LotR movies part 274:

I really appreciate the realism they injected not just into the world, but into the characters. Aragorn being more reluctant to and struggling with becoming king made him human, whereas in the book he’s more of a King Arthur type who barely seems mortal. Eowyn showing fear in battle but fighting anyway, Rohirrim going from 6’4” land Vikings who rip doors in half to a bunch of typical medieval part time warriors with battered armour, Faramir almost succumbing to the Ring, these are changes that make the story more grounded and believable and less of a mythical thing you can’t relate too but still keep the same story and point.

I haven’t gotten farther than Aragorn meeting The Hobbits and traveling with them yet. Haven’t gotten that far

*later realized you said movies not books

Tiiime to sporadically return to make sure this thing is only 99% dead.

Chat (probably nonexistent), here’s something I haven’t done before: Create your own custom Fellowship of the Ring with any characters from the legendarium, but you gotta stick with the same races as the original (I.e. 4 hobbits, 1 elf, 2 humans, etc). Comment who you’d pick

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Tiiime to sporadically return to make sure this thing is only 99% dead.

Chat (probably nonexistent), here’s something I haven’t done before: Create your own custom Fellowship of the Ring with any characters from the legendarium, but you gotta stick with the same races as the original (I.e. 4 hobbits, 1 elf, 2 humans, etc). Comment who you’d pick

 I think Pallghost runs a more popular D&D thread. I’ve been to Lazy to check it out so far

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Tiiime to sporadically return to make sure this thing is only 99% dead.

Chat (probably nonexistent), here’s something I haven’t done before: Create your own custom Fellowship of the Ring with any characters from the legendarium, but you gotta stick with the same races as the original (I.e. 4 hobbits, 1 elf, 2 humans, etc). Comment who you’d pick

 I think Pallghost runs a more popular D&D thread. I’ve been to Lazy to check it out so far

He does? What’s it called?

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Tiiime to sporadically return to make sure this thing is only 99% dead.

Chat (probably nonexistent), here’s something I haven’t done before: Create your own custom Fellowship of the Ring with any characters from the legendarium, but you gotta stick with the same races as the original (I.e. 4 hobbits, 1 elf, 2 humans, etc). Comment who you’d pick

 I think Pallghost runs a more popular D&D thread. I’ve been to Lazy to check it out so far

He does? What’s it called?

 I have not yet seen it, but I’ve heard they run one several times

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Tiiime to sporadically return to make sure this thing is only 99% dead.

Chat (probably nonexistent), here’s something I haven’t done before: Create your own custom Fellowship of the Ring with any characters from the legendarium, but you gotta stick with the same races as the original (I.e. 4 hobbits, 1 elf, 2 humans, etc). Comment who you’d pick

 I think Pallghost runs a more popular D&D thread. I’ve been to Lazy to check it out so far

He does? What’s it called?

 I have not yet seen it, but I’ve heard they run one several times

 Eh? You mean LotR thread? 

Also Pallghost is one of the mods of this thing… lol

Upon investigation, it doesn’t appear that Ghost runs any threads on here…

Yeah idk what PJ is talking about lol

Geez it's been a while since I stopped by here.