I think even the biggest movie/pj critics will agree the score is 10/10
12:37p, 1/24/20
In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna
Those are great, but I'd also add the Uruk Hai theme to the mix. It is a fantastic blend of barbaric savagery and industrialization at the same time. Fits Saruman to a "T".MuckRaker96 said:
Brian, and other big movie fans, I will now have your best 5 tracks from the entire LOTR trilogy. I know it's not enough, I know Brian's going to give me at least 8, maybe even 12, but I challenge you to pick the best 5. Just Howard Shore's stuff, not anything with sung words by Enya or the like.
I will start - not any particular order
Concerning Hobbits
Minas Tirith
The King of the Golden Hall
Forth Eorlingas
The Ride of the Rohirrim
12:45p, 1/24/20
In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna
1. The Breaking of the Fellowship
Gets me emotional every time. To this day, as soon as the track starts, I get a bout of nostalgia. Favorite part is the swelling strings at 2:36 when Frodo pulls Sam out of the water.
2. The Bridge of Khazad Dum
This track is one of the reasons this remains one of my favorite movie scenes ever. From the moment Gandalf yells "To the bridge of Khazam Dum", which immediately kicks into the Fellowship theme, to the moment Gandalf falls off the bridge, the entire track is perfection. The guttural chanting (done by a NZ rugby team) when they start running from the Balrog gives me chills every time. And the vocals when Gandalf is falling... amazing.
3. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
Doubt this needs any explanation. Specific favorite moments: The swelling, orchestrated "Nature's Reclamation" theme at 2:25, with the wide shot of the Rohirrim with the rising sun at their back, and of course the solo violin playing Rohan's Theme at 2:40. If that doesn't give you goosebumps, you simply don't like movies.
4. The Lighting of the Beacons
Again, doubt this could possibly require explanation. One quick note: I love how the Gondor Theme is ever so slightly introduced in FOTR, by a single French horn, when Boromir is speaking during the Council of Elrond. We don't hear it again until Gandalf arrives at Minis Tirith in ROTK.
5. Concerning Hobbits
If you could somehow extract the feeling of hearth, home, and nostalgia into a single piece of music, it would be this. This gets the feels every time for me.
As has already been said on this thread, the collective score for this trilogy is the greatest film score of all time. I could probably list another 10, but I'll respect your rules.
MuckRaker96 said:
Brian, and other big movie fans, I will now have your best 5 tracks from the entire LOTR trilogy. I know it's not enough, I know Brian's going to give me at least 8, maybe even 12, but I challenge you to pick the best 5. Just Howard Shore's stuff, not anything with sung words by Enya or the like.
1. The Breaking of the Fellowship
Gets me emotional every time. To this day, as soon as the track starts, I get a bout of nostalgia. Favorite part is the swelling strings at 2:36 when Frodo pulls Sam out of the water.
2. The Bridge of Khazad Dum
This track is one of the reasons this remains one of my favorite movie scenes ever. From the moment Gandalf yells "To the bridge of Khazam Dum", which immediately kicks into the Fellowship theme, to the moment Gandalf falls off the bridge, the entire track is perfection. The guttural chanting (done by a NZ rugby team) when they start running from the Balrog gives me chills every time. And the vocals when Gandalf is falling... amazing.
3. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
Doubt this needs any explanation. Specific favorite moments: The swelling, orchestrated "Nature's Reclamation" theme at 2:25, with the wide shot of the Rohirrim with the rising sun at their back, and of course the solo violin playing Rohan's Theme at 2:40. If that doesn't give you goosebumps, you simply don't like movies.
4. The Lighting of the Beacons
Again, doubt this could possibly require explanation. One quick note: I love how the Gondor Theme is ever so slightly introduced in FOTR, by a single French horn, when Boromir is speaking during the Council of Elrond. We don't hear it again until Gandalf arrives at Minis Tirith in ROTK.
5. Concerning Hobbits
If you could somehow extract the feeling of hearth, home, and nostalgia into a single piece of music, it would be this. This gets the feels every time for me.
As has already been said on this thread, the collective score for this trilogy is the greatest film score of all time. I could probably list another 10, but I'll respect your rules.
12:50p, 1/24/20
In reply to heddleston
https://instagr.am/p/BpK8_n_grWo
https://instagr.am/p/BqsvkmtAxlT
https://instagr.am/p/BtuhK_ugSxj
Speakin of elvish script tattoos, can anyone confirm this as the one ring poem? I'm almost certain it isQuote:
Here's a LOTR coolstorybro. At lunch today I noticed a guy at the table next to me had a tattoo that looked like it was elvish script fully wrapping around and filling his left forearm...
https://instagr.am/p/BpK8_n_grWo
https://instagr.am/p/BqsvkmtAxlT
https://instagr.am/p/BtuhK_ugSxj
12:54p, 1/24/20
Not sure but if she peels that thong down a bit I believe we will see the eye of Sauron staring back at us
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this post reflect the opinions of Texags user bonfarr and are not to be accepted as facts or to be accepted at face value.
1:06p, 1/24/20
Concerning Hobbits
The Breaking of the Fellowship
King of the Golden Hall
The Bridge of Khazad-Dum
Samwise the Brave
The Breaking of the Fellowship
King of the Golden Hall
The Bridge of Khazad-Dum
Samwise the Brave
1:10p, 1/24/20
In reply to bonfarr
She has a stormtrooper helmet on the inner of her left thighbonfarr said:
Not sure but if she peels that thong down a bit I believe we will see the eye of Sauron staring back at us
1:13p, 1/24/20
In reply to bonfarr
My old roommate and I are eating dinner and drinking beers at the bar at Maple & Motor (a burger joint near UTSouthwestern in Dallas) and the owner of the restaurant is on the other side on his computer talking with us. We'd been there for a solid 1.5 hours talking when he asks us randomly if we're LOTR fans. Totally unconnected. We said sure and he asks if we want to see a picture of an awesome tattoo. We said ok and he tells us to come behind the bar so other patrons can't see his computer screen and we do.
The tattoo was some pretty damn hot chick had tattooed the One Ring inscription around her back door.
I've never been so shocked in my life.
So funny story.bonfarr said:
Not sure but if she peels that thong down a bit I believe we will see the eye of Sauron staring back at us
My old roommate and I are eating dinner and drinking beers at the bar at Maple & Motor (a burger joint near UTSouthwestern in Dallas) and the owner of the restaurant is on the other side on his computer talking with us. We'd been there for a solid 1.5 hours talking when he asks us randomly if we're LOTR fans. Totally unconnected. We said sure and he asks if we want to see a picture of an awesome tattoo. We said ok and he tells us to come behind the bar so other patrons can't see his computer screen and we do.
The tattoo was some pretty damn hot chick had tattooed the One Ring inscription around her back door.
I've never been so shocked in my life.
1:50p, 1/24/20
In reply to Brian Earl Spilner
Tolkien wrote nothing about Eldarions reign. Attempting to pick up this thread would go so far beyond the realm of fan-fiction (which we'ere already getting to some extent with a show set in the Second Age - more on that later) that a producer is better off simply creating their own IP in the process. The only reason to tie this into LOTR would be to simply cash in on an existing brand.
Besides, what is there to write? The elves, who were already few in number, pretty much left in bulk following the destruction of the Ring. The few lingerers, along with the dwarves, would fade into the background as the fourth age marks the beginning of the Dominion of Men: the time when magic fades from the world completely.
By contrast, we know what they can do in the Second Age. We know the settings, key events, key characters, and their motivations. We just need to fill in the gaps with dialogue and minor events to get to those key events.
I know this dates from the first page, but I have to go with a HELL NO on this.Brian Earl Spilner said:
One of the first things I googled after my recent rewatch was any writings about the rule of Aragon II Elessar, and of his son Eldarion after him.
There's a bit on Aragorn's rule, but virtually nothing on Eldarion's.
https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Aragorn_II_ElessarQuote:
Upon Sauron's defeat, Aragorn was crowned as King Elessar, a name given to him by Galadriel. He became the twenty-sixth King of Arnor, thirty-fifth King of Gondor and the first High King of the Reunited Kingdom, though it would be several years before his authority was firmly reestablished in Arnor. His line was referred to as the House of Telcontar (Telcontar being Quenya for "Strider"). Aragorn married Arwen shortly afterwards, and ruled the Kingdom of Gondor and Arnor until 120 of the Fourth Age. His reign was marked by great harmony and prosperity within Gondor and Arnor, and by a great renewal of cooperation and communication among Men, Elves, and Dwarves, fostered by his vigorous rebuilding campaign following the war. Aragorn led the forces of the Reunited Kingdom on military campaigns against some Easterlings and Haradrim, re-establishing rule over much territory that Gondor had lost in previous centuries.
https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Eldarion
I think a series picking up during the rule of Eldarion would be pretty awesome. (With Merry and Pippin still around as really old Hobbits spending their last few years in Gondor before they are buried next to Aragorn.)
Tolkien wrote nothing about Eldarions reign. Attempting to pick up this thread would go so far beyond the realm of fan-fiction (which we'ere already getting to some extent with a show set in the Second Age - more on that later) that a producer is better off simply creating their own IP in the process. The only reason to tie this into LOTR would be to simply cash in on an existing brand.
Besides, what is there to write? The elves, who were already few in number, pretty much left in bulk following the destruction of the Ring. The few lingerers, along with the dwarves, would fade into the background as the fourth age marks the beginning of the Dominion of Men: the time when magic fades from the world completely.
By contrast, we know what they can do in the Second Age. We know the settings, key events, key characters, and their motivations. We just need to fill in the gaps with dialogue and minor events to get to those key events.
2:00p, 1/24/20
Has anyone seen the Hunt for Gollum?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Gollum?wprov=sfti1
Supposedly fantastic fanfilm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Gollum?wprov=sfti1
Supposedly fantastic fanfilm.
2:00p, 1/24/20
In reply to Solo Tetherball Champ
Middle Earth is probably the deepest, most richly-developed fictional universe ever created, and that's why it would be a perfect backdrop/setting to set "fan-fiction" stories in. (Just as Star Wars is doing now.)
You're obviously a purist, and I respect that, but I think the endless possibilities for these kinds of stories is actually pretty exciting. Besides, you'll always have the books.
Correct, and correct. But that's why I think it could be interesting.Quote:
Tolkien wrote nothing about Eldarions reign. Attempting to pick up this thread would go so far beyond the realm of fan-fiction.
Middle Earth is probably the deepest, most richly-developed fictional universe ever created, and that's why it would be a perfect backdrop/setting to set "fan-fiction" stories in. (Just as Star Wars is doing now.)
You're obviously a purist, and I respect that, but I think the endless possibilities for these kinds of stories is actually pretty exciting. Besides, you'll always have the books.
2:51p, 1/24/20
In reply to Brian Earl Spilner
I'm very active in the subreddit for the upcoming Amazon Prime show. Rather than speculate on castings, I have a lot more fun trying to work out the various ways they can create entire plots and narratives out of events that received mere sentences from Tolkien. Here is one I came up with that is one possible way they could show how Sauron is god to his followers and the origins of one of the Nazgul. Let me tell you, this was not well received on the Reddit for the Tolkien Purists (a sub I'm active in).
I just don't see any interesting stories that can be told during Eldarions reign: The elves have left, dwarves are disappearing. magic has faded. That doesn't sound like fantasy, that sounds like standard medieval stories. If you want to tell interesting stories you should go backward in time.
Well, I'm not quite a purist. There are things that irritate me about the LOTR and Hobbit films, but I look at them from a perspective of "does this make sense from a narrative perspective" not from "but, but, Tolkien did it differently!". To be fair, I think that Tolkien did it better, but I recognize how he wrote it won't always translate well to film.Brian Earl Spilner said:Correct, and correct. But that's why I think it could be interesting.Quote:
Tolkien wrote nothing about Eldarions reign. Attempting to pick up this thread would go so far beyond the realm of fan-fiction.
Middle Earth is probably the deepest, most richly-developed fictional universe ever created, and that's why it would be a perfect backdrop/setting to set "fan-fiction" stories in. (Just as Star Wars is doing now.)
You're obviously a purist, and I respect that, but I think the endless possibilities for these kinds of stories is actually pretty exciting. Besides, you'll always have the books.
I'm very active in the subreddit for the upcoming Amazon Prime show. Rather than speculate on castings, I have a lot more fun trying to work out the various ways they can create entire plots and narratives out of events that received mere sentences from Tolkien. Here is one I came up with that is one possible way they could show how Sauron is god to his followers and the origins of one of the Nazgul. Let me tell you, this was not well received on the Reddit for the Tolkien Purists (a sub I'm active in).
I just don't see any interesting stories that can be told during Eldarions reign: The elves have left, dwarves are disappearing. magic has faded. That doesn't sound like fantasy, that sounds like standard medieval stories. If you want to tell interesting stories you should go backward in time.
4:20p, 1/24/20
For those of you who are parents, at what age would/did you let your kids watch the movies? I'm thinking 10 at a minimum, but maybe even later.
4:23p, 1/24/20
In reply to redline248
I saw TTT in theaters when I was 8 or 9 and turned out reasonably okay. But I was already hooked on the books by then, and I am not a parent.
4:28p, 1/24/20
In reply to redline248
After they have read the books
redline248 said:
For those of you who are parents, at what age would/did you let your kids watch the movies? I'm thinking 10 at a minimum, but maybe even later.
After they have read the books
5:13p, 1/24/20
Has anyone else read "Bored of the Rings" the Harvard Lampoon parody book that came out in 1969? The lead characters are Frito Bugger and Spam Gangree. It is a good laugh if you are a Tolkien fan. I laughed out loud through much of the book.
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this post reflect the opinions of Texags user bonfarr and are not to be accepted as facts or to be accepted at face value.
6:21p, 1/24/20
In reply to bonfarr
It was probably one of the weakest satire of it I've seen out there. Hell, Benders Game was a better parody of LOTR than that.. and its primary target was Dungeons and Dragons.
I read it with high hopes.... and was quickly disappointed.bonfarr said:
Has anyone else read "Bored of the Rings" the Harvard Lampoon parody book that came out in 1969? The lead characters are Frito Bugger and Spam Gangree. It is a good laugh if you are a Tolkien fan. I laughed out loud through much of the book.
It was probably one of the weakest satire of it I've seen out there. Hell, Benders Game was a better parody of LOTR than that.. and its primary target was Dungeons and Dragons.
9:24p, 1/24/20
In reply to Al Bula
I bought a copy like that, and the Hobbit same style, back in '85 or' 86. They were maybe $25 a pop back then. Still have them. Awesone runs off those books!
Shife said:
...
I have lost my original paperback copies of LOTR but replaced them. I also begged and begged until I got this one year for my birthday. It is still in really good condition:
I bought a copy like that, and the Hobbit same style, back in '85 or' 86. They were maybe $25 a pop back then. Still have them. Awesone runs off those books!
9:45p, 1/24/20
My mom bought these at a garage sale for like 3 bucks. I don't know if I have them anymore, but I read the **** out of them.
9:57p, 1/24/20
Anyone else have this?
My copy is falling apart, but it's not something you see very often.
My copy is falling apart, but it's not something you see very often.
6:51a, 1/25/20
In reply to redline248
That's the set we had (plus a brown Hobbt). I think my FOTR and TT fell apart but I still have the other two. The last time I reread was in my iPad but I'd like to go back to those old books.
9:44a, 1/25/20
In reply to DVC2010
I'm disappointed that I passed on the opportunity to witness this. If I'd have known there was going to be drunk LOTR, we'd have found a sitter.
DVC2010 said:PDWT_12 said:Solo Tetherball Champ said:And yet, as epic as each scene is, I can honestly say the books did it better.Brian Earl Spilner said:
And just because, still some of the most epic movie scenes ever.
This scene in particular... gives me goosebumps every time I read it.Quote:
In rode the Lord of the Nazgl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face.
All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dnen.
"You cannot enter here," said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. "Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!"
The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter.
"Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.
And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.
I got just drunk enough at my New Years party to read this exact passage to my guests. My parties are cool.
I'm disappointed that I passed on the opportunity to witness this. If I'd have known there was going to be drunk LOTR, we'd have found a sitter.
10:20a, 1/25/20
In reply to redline248
My kids are all 5 and under, and have each watched the extended edition trilogies with me.
Granted, that's only because my tradition when having a kid is to watch them during the first couple weeks when I'm on the "night shift". My kids will probably be 10+ before they actually get to see the movies. Books they can read as soon as they want.
I was 13 when fellowship came out. My oldest brother was home for winter break and we went to the midnight showing. That winter break was just a constant fight over who could read the single copies of the other books we had. My other older brother started at A&M the next year, and we did the Two Towers midnight showing when he came back.
Somehow I convinced 3 other sets of parents to let their kids see Return of the King at midnight. We felt like such badasses being HS sophomores out until 3 in the morning on what was a school night for most (our HS had final exam exemptions if you had an A and fewer than 3 excused absences). In reality, the parents probably didn't care because they knew we were too nerdy to actually do anything stupid.
I sure am glad my oldest brother took me to fellowship. That turned into 3 of my favorite movie memories. Turned out way better than the other midnight showing I went to with him...the Matrix Reloaded.
redline248 said:
For those of you who are parents, at what age would/did you let your kids watch the movies? I'm thinking 10 at a minimum, but maybe even later.
My kids are all 5 and under, and have each watched the extended edition trilogies with me.
Granted, that's only because my tradition when having a kid is to watch them during the first couple weeks when I'm on the "night shift". My kids will probably be 10+ before they actually get to see the movies. Books they can read as soon as they want.
I was 13 when fellowship came out. My oldest brother was home for winter break and we went to the midnight showing. That winter break was just a constant fight over who could read the single copies of the other books we had. My other older brother started at A&M the next year, and we did the Two Towers midnight showing when he came back.
Somehow I convinced 3 other sets of parents to let their kids see Return of the King at midnight. We felt like such badasses being HS sophomores out until 3 in the morning on what was a school night for most (our HS had final exam exemptions if you had an A and fewer than 3 excused absences). In reality, the parents probably didn't care because they knew we were too nerdy to actually do anything stupid.
I sure am glad my oldest brother took me to fellowship. That turned into 3 of my favorite movie memories. Turned out way better than the other midnight showing I went to with him...the Matrix Reloaded.
10:48a, 1/25/20
In reply to redline248
It's not like there is anything bad in them. No bad language, nudity/sex etc.
redline248 said:
For those of you who are parents, at what age would/did you let your kids watch the movies? I'm thinking 10 at a minimum, but maybe even later.
It's not like there is anything bad in them. No bad language, nudity/sex etc.
11:10a, 1/25/20
In reply to TXAG 05
No...just monsters, beheadings, lots of blood and death. Shelob and the orcs could be particularly troubling for my 4 year old.
Cstrickland05 said:redline248 said:
For those of you who are parents, at what age would/did you let your kids watch the movies? I'm thinking 10 at a minimum, but maybe even later.
It's not like there is anything bad in them. No bad language, nudity/sex etc.
No...just monsters, beheadings, lots of blood and death. Shelob and the orcs could be particularly troubling for my 4 year old.
11:25a, 1/25/20
In reply to redline248
My sister was 10-12 when she came into the living room when I was watching. I can't remember if it was Galadriel being tempted by the ring or if it was just a flash of Sauron's eye, but I do remember that she ran out of the room screaming.
redline248 said:Cstrickland05 said:redline248 said:
For those of you who are parents, at what age would/did you let your kids watch the movies? I'm thinking 10 at a minimum, but maybe even later.
It's not like there is anything bad in them. No bad language, nudity/sex etc.
No...just monsters, beheadings, lots of blood and death. Shelob and the orcs could be particularly troubling for my 4 year old.
My sister was 10-12 when she came into the living room when I was watching. I can't remember if it was Galadriel being tempted by the ring or if it was just a flash of Sauron's eye, but I do remember that she ran out of the room screaming.
6:33p, 1/25/20
In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna
MuckRaker96 said:
I think this might have been the first YouTube video I ever saw.
10:32p, 1/25/20
I think someone should cut the 3 hobbit movies down into one 3 hour movie, which would actually be quite good.