Movies The Fellowship of the Ring

One Ring to rule them all
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them

On December 19th the movie that we've all been waiting for is finally coming. The first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring!

I recommend that everyone go and see this, especially if you're a fan of Record of Lodoss War. I've read the books many a time, and now I finally get to see the books come to life.
Well, there were the cartoons(wasn't one an anime?)...


Well, a question :
Who is your favourite Lord of the Rings character?


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Yes, one of them was anime...not verra good, sassenach. The best are still the books, I've reread 14 or 15 times in the special edition 7-book way. Frodo in the movie doesn't look like I'd imagined him. My fave character? Sam Gamgee? Bilbo Baggins? Frodo Baggins? Peregrin (Pippin) Took, Meriadoc?
I dunno. "Videos fade away, but literature will always remain...", A certain Rambling Otaku.

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I've got quite a bit to say here, so let's do this in some semblance of the asides by Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof. Just picture They Gave Each Other A Pledge playing in the background and you've got the idea.
I'm just going to warn y'all in advance that there's a few spoilers in this one, so don't read it if you've not yet read the books.

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Strider, y'alls! Aragorn son of Arathorn is such a cool character. I love the way he talks to everyone, and how he treats them: with dignity, wisdom and respect.
On the other hand, I've always been a Gandalf fan. They say not to meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger (as the old gaffer used to say), and that statement suits me as of late as well. I find Gandalf kind of resembles Jesus, right out of the Bible, what with how he comes back from the dead (well, not actually death, but from a seeming doom in Moria), and with how he allows Wormtongue to escape execution in Rohan, when he could have just watched the bugger fry. Then there's his constant wisdom. He's truly a figure to look up to, and not just because he's taller than a hobbit.
On the other hand, there's Treebeard, Fangorn, or whatever you want to call him. It's just too bad he won't be in the movie ... I love the whole Ent thing, with how they try not to be "hasty" and how it takes them so long to say anything, like when Treebeard rambled on for a whole paragraph to say hello during Entmoot.
On the other hand, there's Boromir, Mr. Honour himself. Aside from the whole being lured by the Ring's power thing, I thought the Man of Gondor was really cool, right up to his hero's death.
On the other hand, there's Tom Bombadil. I loved this guy! With his continual singing and the like, he reminded me of the way I act at school, except with magical powers. Every part with him in it was so much more fun.
On the other hand ... THERE IS NO OTHER HAND!!!!
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Yowzah! After that, I wonder how many hands I have ...

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Truly my favourite character is Gandalf. J.R.R. Tolkien even created Gandalf's character in the image of Christ.

Another of my favourites is Strider/Aragorn... He is just plain cool! And I agree with you that his dignity and respect make him a great character.


In the movie I can't wait to see how John Rhys-Davies plays Gimli... hehe "Feel the power of my axe!"

 

Hmm, you're right. Maybe Gandalf is my fave! You guys better have read both books/series, the hobbit and The lord of the rings. Yessss my preciousssss

 

Oh, I've read the books

Loved them. I am just mad that Harry Pot decided to come out right before LOTR, thus drawing the attention of the feeble masses away from what could be one of the coolest movies ever.

I think I always like Bilbo. I love hte scene in the Hobbit where he gets all his annoying guests. Too bad there isn't a Hobbit movie in the works.

 

Bah! THe Harry Potter books were ok. But the movie should not exist. And that movie is not better than LOTR, it's just gonna attract more kids, that's why it'll be more popular, but that's all!

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Have any of you seen those "Glass Goblets" that Burger King has? It's like a flashback to when I was a kid ... I find myself going there just to get the cups ... all I have is Strider though.

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Wahay! Tomorrow it comes out! Christmas has come early this year, and twice! FFX, Lord of the Rings, this rocks!

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my personal favourite characters are the black riders..even though there not a main character....there still cool...my other favourite character is strider..
so has anyone seend the movie yet??

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I'm going on Saturday, I believe. I wanted to go last night ... Well, let's just say it's times like those that make me wish I had a car ... and a full driver's license ... and money ... and time ...

How 'bout you, MC? You reading the books?

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Being the only geek on the face of the planet who's not a Tolkein fan I feel somewhat left out X_x. The movie does look good though...

~ Lady Aoi: Wasn't Frodo the last secretary general of the UN or something? ^^

 

Even if you're not a Tolkien fan it looks like a great movie to see

I'm waiting until I can go and see it with my girlfriend to see it. Which I hope is soon...

Were there any scenes changed from the book? And I hear they took out Tom Bombadil!! how could they, that Bard rules... (I guess it'd be 3 and half hours if they did have him in though)

 

Yeah, they took out good old Tom, but I guess that if they left him in, the movie would have been around four hours instead of three and ten minutes, what with the whole long part about the forest, then in Tom's house, and then the Barrow Wight ...
Well, all in all, it was a decent film, but the book was way better. If I didn't love the books so much, I would have liked the movie a little more. Strider's not nearly as cool in the movie, and Gimli whines too much. The guy playing Gandalf was great, and so was Saruman. The battles rocked the roof off the theatre, but my dad complained they made his head spin ... literally. It runs in the family, I guess ... Anyway, my sister wants to drag me off to see the movie with her because she doesn't know anyone in the area to see it with ... looks like more Lord of the Rings for GNZ ...

"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"
-Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship Of The Ring-

 

Well, I finally went and saw the movie tonight, with my family. We had to drive to the next town to find somewhere it was plying though I thought it was ok. It suffered a little from the same problem Harry Potter is supposed to have had.. It tried to put too much in. (This all stems from the fact that making a good movie from a book is damned near impossible) Too many events meant too little time for each one, and too little time to develop cnd get to know/get fond of the characters. This pulled it off better than Hairy Pot though, from what others have said about Hairy Pot (which I've not seen)

I thought this movie did as well as can be expected for a conversion of the book. It is just really hard to do it right. The balance between lasting 6 hours, and losing some of the bits from the book was ok.

The only thing that sucked was that we were in the back, near the back speakers, so the background music drowned out some of the dialog.

I eagerly await the next installment.