LOTR -DVD Info

tesco samoa · #1 March 29th, 2002, 06:15 AM

And. The Simpsons Second season is on Pre - Order 635 minutes long....

Check it out at amazon

Instar · #2 March 30th, 2002, 04:46 AM

Nasssty horrid little hobbitsess. I want my preciousss

geoschmo · #3 August 13th, 2002, 08:14 PM

So, I bought the DVD and started watching it Last night. Hadn't seen it in the theatre. This movie is cool! Makes me want to read the books. I read the Hobbit a couple times as a kid, but never read the trilogy.

Didn't Tolkien go back at some point after LOTR and write prequel books that went through all the "history" stuff that the movie touches on? Like when the rings were made originally?

Geoschmo

steveh11 · #4 August 13th, 2002, 08:24 PM

Yes, 'The Silmarillion'. There's also a bunch of other stuff that his son published after his death. My own view is that these are unnecessary, that the original trilogy + the Hobbit stand alone, but Tolkien was creating a whole mythology, and these later works were the publication of his 'backstory' and notes.
YMMV of course.

Steve.
What's this got to do with SEIV?

geoschmo · #5 August 13th, 2002, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by steveh11:
Steve.
What's this got to do with SEIV?

Not a thing.

But this is a community. Our central point of commonality is SEIV, but we all have other interests.

Although there has been talk of a "fantasy mod" for SEIV, but that's out there a bit IMHO.

Geo

EDIT: Maybe I could make some sort of quest type scenario for SEIV. Call it "The Fellowship". Along the lines of my Voyager scenario, but for multiplayers. Where each player controls a single ship and you have to get across the galaxy or somesuch to win.

[ August 13, 2002, 19:37: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Singollo · #6 August 13th, 2002, 09:25 PM

Actually, I am of the opinion that LotR cannot be properly (read: entirely, accurately) appreciated without a solid knowledge of The Silmarillion and the other material. LotR is an amazing story in and of itself, one of the finest fantasy tales ever spun, without a doubt. But it is only the tip, the very tip, of the iceberg that is Tolkien's extended mythology, and like an iceberg, you cannot possibly imagine the grandeur and size and power of the whole if you've only seen the tip. Things like Aragorn's relationship with Arwen, the nature of Gandalf and Saruman, the true stature of the Elves, and the overall point of the story are revealed only by the larger context in which it is set.

Oh, and I agree that the movie is fabulous, a work of art. Too bad it should never, ever have been made in the first place.

Growltigga · #7 August 13th, 2002, 10:19 PM

Geo, take it from a man who knows, the movie is excellent and beinga complete tolkien nutter, I think it probably the best a mortal film director can do...

read the Hobbit, and then read LOTR and thene x-pand your mind with the Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales...

and then read 'em and weep