TinySteps Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Discussion about the Lord of the Rings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mousefire Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I've never seen it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iced Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Fool watch it now, better yet read the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinySteps Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 Read the Hobbit too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candlejack Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Great series, great series. I'd actually say the movies are just as good as the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK-201 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Reach! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinySteps Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 Great series, great series. I'd actually say the movies are just as good as the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK-201 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Fool of a Took! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinySteps Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 I was given a token I was bidden to show thee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK-201 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 "The halfling was dear to thee I see." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinySteps Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 Gibbets and crows! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK-201 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 We shall have peace speech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defeatist Elitist Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrhesia Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 One of the good things about the movies that they threw in was Elves at Helm's Deep. Gave a real sense of the Free Peoples standing against Saruman, rather than just a siege. Books were too longwinded. There's about 2 chapters dedicated to honouring Boromir's memory, 1 chapter of Frodo riding around to see everyone. The movies cut down just enough to make it epic. Still, both have their merits, but I'm inclined to agree that this is one of the few movie series' as good as the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candlejack Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinySteps Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 Main characters deaths were epic. The most epic death was when the elf(can't quite remember his name) who was at Helm's Deep died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinySteps Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 (edited) Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! And to ruin! And to the world's ending! EDIT: DEATH! Edited December 24, 2009 by Teh Great Auk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defeatist Elitist Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 One of the good things about the movies that they threw in was Elves at Helm's Deep. Gave a real sense of the Free Peoples standing against Saruman, rather than just a siege. Books were too longwinded. There's about 2 chapters dedicated to honouring Boromir's memory, 1 chapter of Frodo riding around to see everyone. The movies cut down just enough to make it epic. Still, both have their merits, but I'm inclined to agree that this is one of the few movie series' as good as the books. I'm going to take a stand here man. I loved the movies, thought they where awesomely awesome, but they certainly were not better than the books. The books were not too longwinded, they were descriptive. If you look at the time he was writing in, the books are actually fairly fast paced. Basically, it requires you to actually dedicate some time to it, but it is certainly not too longwinded. Consider its length compared to the length of many other books now released. The difference is I can zip through 2000 pages of Harry Potter in about the same time it will take me to read Fellowship of the Ring. The Lord of the Rings is written in a much more complex way, and it takes longer to read it. The movies had to cut down on a lot of that stuff or else they would have been beyond obscenely long, but the loss of the material still has an affect. Also, you know what else was an amazing book? The Silmarillion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defeatist Elitist Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Main characters deaths were epic. The most epic death was when the elf(can't quite remember his name) who was at Helm's Deep died. BUT BOROMIR'S DEATH MAN! That death even happened in the book! Some guy suggested that in all dictionaries, instead of having a written definition of hero, they should just play the clip of Boromir's death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriemhild Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 "That still counts as one" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminothe Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 (edited) if you liked the lord of the ring books, another series you may like is the morgaine saga(not the morgaine from king arthur, someone completely diffferent). It is a four book series, the titles being: The gate of ivrel, the well of Shiuan, the Fires of Azaroth, and the Exiled Gate. Amazing series. The author is C.J. Cherryh Edited December 24, 2009 by Luminothe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybee Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Read the entire appendix. All 6 of them. Then you can be called a true man. Sadly, I am still at the beginning of the first ;_; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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