P&CE Discussion of Tolkien, LOTR, Silmarillion, and Amazon’s Expensive Commercial Attempt at Fanfic

Dammit. Now I’m hearing, what people think is reassuring, that Peter Jackson is steering the ship for the new LOTR movies.

Now I am not so excited.

 

Not after the Hobbit garbage.

 

…
We only wish
To catch a fish,
So juicy-sweet!
…

 

Not a fan of the movies myself, but you geeks/nerds might enjoy the Air NA Hobbit safety video I had to endure back then. It features cameos from Peter Jackson, Dean O'Gormon (who also stars in The Almighty Johnsons) and Gollum.




But one wasn't enough, given the number of movies and their importance to NZ tourism.

 

Still showing the latter one as of two years ago.



And yeeeees, I went to Hobbiton but I swear that was the only LOTR related thing I did.

 

That must have been a rotating one, as they had been regularly showing the Tiaki and the Guardians one (my personal favorite, given the emphasis on Polynesian culture and belief systems) after the pandemic until late last year.

 

I would be more impressed if they could fuse LOTR with Monty Python movies. Have Gollum looking for the ring, but runs into the French knights who taunt him mercilessly.

Instead of a Balrog, have the Black Knight.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_of_the_Rings

 

And I hate to think of the amount of exposition that PJ is going to need to create. We're really only talking about a section of the appendices of ROTK here, that's not a lot to make a full length feature out of. Between PJ, Boyens and Co. the cheese is going to be dialed up to 11.

 

Love triangle with Goldberry and Tom Bombadil.

 

Y'all sound like the Mu Alpha Theta geeks I used to victimize in chess despite not being very math savvy.

 

It’s good to have triumphs in one’s life to look back on fondly.

 

It really is. After HS, most people are doing something 9-5 to stay out of debt and put food in their bellies. Not a ton of room for personal achievement. What's your handicap/how many points on the last buck you shot/when's your next gig/did you ever finish customizing that sports car?

 

Opening an episode, much less an entire season, with a flashback, is reason enough not to watch.

I fvcking hate flashback.

 

It was all a dream!

 

I used to read Word Up magazine!

 

Was NOT expecting a Notorious B.I.G. reference in the Tolkien thread.

 

Tom Bombadil would dig Biggie.