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Any fans out there? Is it me, or is this one of the greatest trilogies of all time?
The movies were fantastic, so I read the original books by Tolkien...and they were even better!
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WOW. I am a big LOTR fan but somehow didn't expected 2 find another one here. I've seen all the movies. The third one is one of my fav.s and i've read the book at least thrice.I read the books before watching the movies. I've read the part about the ending of Aragorn and Arwen numerous times and it always made me cry. Why did the have to die? why can't it just end with a happily ever after.
Well that's why its a epic.
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Aragorn has gotta be my fav character. I have a poster of him on my wardrobe door. I kinda preferred the books, althought the movies were brill. Prob because they had a lot more in them.
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Yes i love his character too but he is just too good to be true. in the movie i liked legolas more.
I don't have any poster of anything. :cry: :( :cry:
The thing with LOTR is that now all the movies are out and the books are read so there is nothing to look forward to. That's why the interest in it is slowly fading away now.
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I know what you mean....all the people were reading the books years ago, but now they've stopped....although, if the Hobbit gets released, interest may pick up again.
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Yes i did heard that the hobbit was made into a movie but as i didn't hear much about it i wasn't sure wheather that was just a rumour or truth.
The Hobbit is written so differently as compared 2 LOTR. It has a movie already released on it. I never saw it but My Onii-chan did. Its very old.
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urgh, i thought the movies were so boring, and i can't stand the books cos i hate reading, so nope i don't like it.
but i DO like taking the mick out of it... haha...supid..one ring ....haha...
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my friend was just talking to me about LOTR earlier.. he was asking why i liked it.. now i'm wondering if i liked it cause of Legolas.. *dreams* lol.. he likes it cause the plot...
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urgh, i thought the movies were so boring, and i can't stand the books cos i hate reading, so nope i don't like it.
but i DO like taking the mick out of it... haha...supid..one ring ....haha...
Boring?! How could they be boring? - they had more stuff going on in the space of one hour than some whole trilogies. But I understand about the books, as anyone who isn't a big reader would find it hard to get into them.
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Yes the book are kinda slow.With all those poems ( which i never bothered 2 read except the imp. ones) and ones they enter Mordor the dry discription of everything really makes it slow so i usually only read the dialogues.
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the movies are very boring to me mainly cos i'm totally not interested in anything its going on about.
its just a big waste of a budget to me, but i do like the potato song from it XD
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LOTR fan here! me and my friends are big fans of the series that during our school play, we used the movie music for the BGM of our play! My favorite character's probably Eowyn, but Legolas rocks!
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WEEEE!!!!! LOTR rocks!!!! It is my fav movie... The Special Effects r awesome..The sound..Everything looks so real... The best movie trilogy of all times...No movie can compare to it..
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movies are sooo much better than the book - the book took 10 pages to describe a cliff *rolls eyes*
it may be i don't like the book because i read it when i was twelve though...
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That shouldn't matter....I was that age when I read them too.....I guess it all depends on personal taste. I loved how descriptive the books were...the only think I missed out on was the various poems and songs...I found them meaningless
Well, except for one or two about elven maidens. They were cute.
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i am currently rereading the book.... book 2 now tho..... its amazing how many things werent in the movie like *spoiler* Radagast the Brown... anyone know him?
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Indeed. And I still can't believe they never put in Tom Bombadil, even in the uber-extended version. He was really important to the early plot, yo. O_o
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AHhhhhhh! i can't believe there are lotr fans in here too. I'm a huge lotr fan and so are all of my friends. The movies were awesome the best movies ever made in my opinion. The books were wonderful as well but you have to be a reading person to actually read the thing through to the end. My favourite character is aragorn or legolas can't really decide. I loved the arwen and aragorn love story it was so nice and sad. Eowyn was another fav character -that girl has guts!!!!!
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Yeah, how could they leave out Tom?! And in the third movie, loads of Saruman shots were cut too.
The books will always be the best.
Arwen and Aragorn...it's so sad, because though they stayed together, they could never have been truly happy, what with the immortality thing. I bet Aragorn would always regrte Arwe's sacrifice on some level.
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Isn't there written in the book that in the very end gimli and legolus also sailed to grey heavens. So why can't arwen go with them as aragorn had already died. Yes that won't feel very fair but I just didn't want her to die.
From the movie they cut the battel in the shire. I think that would have been nice. Even butterbur isn't shown enough. (I really liked his reaction when he was told that aragorn is the king.) But then the movie was already too long.
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AHHHHHHHHH! they said in the book that the both of them sailed to the grey havens, i did not read that. thanx alot for that information . the book never said that they did well mine anyway maybe i need to change my glasses.....
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They have an exhibit on Lord of the rings at the Museum of Science and Natural History here :keke: very awsome!
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ooh, I wanna see that! they have like everything LOTR there?
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woohhh...
i love "The Return of The King" most! hehe.. loved Aragorn, Legolas, Merry, Arwen and Haldir (The Two Towers)...
my little bro is a fan of LOTR too! and he bought the "One Ring" in a LOTR fair in S'pore last year...
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I really like the ring. Its so plain and so beautiful. I want to buy one too.
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ooh, I wanna see that! they have like everything LOTR there?
yup, they had everything from the costumes to the history of LOTR. It was huge! :keke:
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wow. Iwanna see it too.
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Hey that is really cool about the museum i want to see it tooo! Has anybody played the board game? I have played the second one, a friend of mine has it. It is really diffrent but really cool.
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which board games? i only saw LOTR RISK version... looks interesting.
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An exhibit? No fair - I wanna go!
And for people after the One Ring....they're available from places like Argos. Harness the power....
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i have this commercial website... http://www.davidreviews.com
but you got to register just by entering your email add..
after you registered... search "Orange" and from the results generated, look for "Sean Austin"
Lord of the Ringtones: Return of the Phonecall... *nice*
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Lord of the Rings rocks! The third movie made me cry... :cry:
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Me pick me *waves hand wildly in the air* i'm a LOTR fan i'm in the middle of reading the sillmarillion (if thats how it's spelt) i love the movies too but they aren't as good as the books (even if i can't remember the books that well i read them when i was little)
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Wow, Starfire! Your reading The Silmarillion? I started The Hobbit a few moths ago and totally forgot I was reading it until now...lol :)
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i was reading it but it was taking forever so i had to return it to the library hopefully nobody took the bookmark out!! i shall restart reading it as soon as i get the chance
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Oooh...that just remindes me, my copy of The Hobbit is at least two moths overdue...*cringes*
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Ooops! Better return it!
I read the books ages ago..I meant to read them after each film, but I got hooked on the 1st and finished the set by the end of the month. *sweatdrop*
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I read LOTR before seeing the movie. My brother had read it and seen the movie and was telling me how good it was and i started bugging him to tell me the story so he ended up gifting the book to me. and I've got the hobbit too. Iread that much later. the hobbit's style of writing is much different that LOTR as it was written for kids. My friend has read unfinished tales and she says that it is really boring and not really worth reading. I don't know anything about the Silmarillion.
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I read the hobbit years before I read the trilogy. Silmarillion. is one of Tolkien's other book about the LOTR universe. I think it has stories from the past, and things like that. It was one of many books dedicated to the LOTR wolrd that he wrote.
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Silmarillion. is one of Tolkien's other book about the LOTR universe.
I didn't mean it that way. I meant that i've never seen that book or talked to anyone who has read it but i believed that it is about the war of souron with elrond isildur gil-galad and others. the old one.
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Ah, right. I haven't read it either, but there are notes and things in the back of the trilogy, advertising the other books.
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I've read her books and seen the movies. The books though were kinda long, took me forever to read -.-'
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I've read her books and seen the movies. The books though were kinda long, took me forever to read -.-'
Her?? if you mean J R R Tolkein. He is not her.
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Her?? if you mean J R R Tolkein. He is not her.
Aiya! :dodge: Sorry about that! I was half asleep when I wrote that!
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I adore Tolkien.My favorite characters are sam andfrodo but I love all felowship exept Boromir ( Faramir is far better to me) enyone loves silmarilion? I think it is brill but LOTR is to me better.
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I adore Tolkien.My favorite characters are sam andfrodo but I love all felowship exept Boromir ( Faramir is far better to me) enyone loves silmarilion? I think it is brill but LOTR is to me better.
Nope, I haven't read The Silmarillion yet. Im still on The Hobbit. :sweatdrop:
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Half way through the sillmarillion but i doubt i'll finish it since i haven't been to the library lateley *wonders if her bookmark is still in it*
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what is Silmarillion mainly about ? I've read the hobbit and LOTR.
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The Lord of the Rings movies are the best movies I've ever seen! They're my favorite! I don't believe any people have ever put so much work and dedication into movies before. I've seen all the movies and watched all the discs on the extended versions, and I also read the books, plus The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien was a genius at mixing Old English and Anglo Saxon legends and creating an entirely new world!
I love it, and it's definitely not boring. I was so surprised when half of my AP English class didn't raise their hands when we were asked if we've seen the movies! Amazing....
I haven't read the Sillmarillion, but I think I read somewhere it's about the elves.... o_o
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yes it's about the elves and the begining of it all ( i don't remeber exactly what though)
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Silmarillion is the history of Middel-Earth. It is great and if you are a fan of Tolkien you must read it. You can understand the LOTR if you read it( for example history of Sauron)