Movies of the Lord of the Rings are currently being made. The first part is planned for Dec this year, the second part in Dec 2002, and the final in Dec 2003.

Hope they do a better job than the last attempt that was never completed.

Has anyone seen any previews yet?

Cris

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Sean Astin as Sam, Elijah Wood as Frodo, Dominic Monaghan as Merry and Billy Boyd as Pippin, a group of Hobbits embarking on a journey to save Middle-Earth from the evil powrs of the ring in New Line's The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring - 2001

hmmm, not how I'd pictured them from the books, I hope they do justice to Tolkein's brilliance.

Surely you jest! Hollywood?????????

The first movie was a pretty beautiful movie.
A cartoon from 2 hours, but it was not a cartoon.....it was so beautifully drawn by the makers:)

Gandalf was exactly as I imagined him, I don't think they can do that with normal human beings. If I read a book, I am sitting in the book, literally. The words become pictures before my eyes and the book is a film in my head.
At this way I also read Lord of the Rings, so I am afraid it will be a disappointment. But perhaps this time they really have something good.
What I saw on the picture at the reply of Wet, I think I have to think again....but I will go look at it because I'm just too curious what they've done to this movie:rolleyes:

I saw the original and, when it ended, sat there and said, Yes Right, where the hell's the rest?" I hope they dont give up halfway through as I will buy the complete video set. I just hope they do the book justice.................:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I agree with you Banshee, when I read Lord of the Rings, about every 3 years, I am there, in the book. The only other author who could do that to me is David Eddings (Belgariad etc):rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

And Stephen King, but he doesn't belong at this site, so I don't can mention him.
But when I read a book of him, I am in the book, and everything he writes, I see right before me, like a film if you want to call it that......
So nice, to be part of a book and feel the creapy, eary story he tells.:p

Sometimes I go to the toilet and I am afraid something will come out of the ventilator, brrrrrrr.......
:eek:
I love it, haha

there were a couple of brothers, hildebrandt i think, who painted the hobbits and other characters for a series of calenders in the 70s. they were the only ones who've really captured what for me anyway are the perfect imagined images of that world. i had hoped that with computer animation those highly detailed renderings could be brought to life for the eventual next series of films.
i was disapointed to hear it would be a live action picture but the stills that i've seen, and a brief trailer, actually seem pretty good.
i just think that as an animation w/the right drawings, it couldv'e been sublime.

- js.

I am in the middle of rereading this novel again. All 1100 plus pages. It has been some time since I last visited it so it is like reading it for the first time.

I hope you are right Jack, that the movie, with people in it, is ok.
The animation as you will call it like that, was good, very, very good.
It is difficult to make a movie if you have this characters in mind. But I hope I can see it, then we can discuss it, nice...

:)
I wish you luck Wet, it is a lot to read, but it's worth it, every page

I it isa good read with room enough to discover a world within.

There you are very right. I wish you a lot of reding pleasure.
The book, or books 'cause I have it in 3 books, is worth it....

Just let your imagination do the rest.
:)

The snippets I've seen of the new movie (part I) look promising to me.

JackSpratts mentioned the art of the Hildebrandts... (didn't know there were brothers!) Their visions of Tolkien's characters may also be found at Yahoo e-greetings. Under Sci-Fi or fantasy if I remember correctly. Can't say that I see the trilogy characters quite the same way as they do, though I do think they have depicted the orcs very well.

Like Red Devil, I used to read this epic every few years. Alas, Time will not permit these days. But WHAT an adventure! A beauty of a story.

And like for Bilbo and Frodo, the autumn season always calls me to wander...

but not to the land of Mordor... "where the shadows lie."

~shiver~

Looking forward to this one.

wow found this in the last page 0_o but i think the massive success answered cris's worries of whether it would do justice to tolkeins book

wow found this in the last page 0_o but i think the massive success answered cris's worries of whether it would do justice to tolkeins book
This was the first movie I have ever seen where the visuals they created were better than what I imagined in my head. The story is still much better with all the various intricacies of the book, but I never imagined scenery that amazing.

...And where the extended edition actually improved on the movies!

i was disappointed by the lack of "shockwave" effects at the end of return of the king.

the extended versions definitely could have used an extraneous jabba the hutt scene, too. :)

I was really disappointed by the ending, period. I wanted to see all of our beloved mythical creatures sail off above the horizon, in a straight line. That is the most perfect visual representation of humanity's loss of innocence: learning that the world is not flat. It touched me so powerfully in print and ended with such finality that I have never been able to reread the story.

If I were a cynic I'd say that the more ambiguous ending of the film left the way open for a sequel.

As for the scenery, I was ready for that. After watching Xena for years I already knew that the New Zealand countryside is full of Assyrian temples. :)

I was really disappointed by the ending, period. I wanted to see all of our beloved mythical creatures sail off above the horizon, in a straight line. That is the most perfect visual representation of humanity's loss of innocence: learning that the world is not flat. It touched me so powerfully in print and ended with such finality that I have never been able to reread the story.

If I were a cynic I'd say that the more ambiguous ending of the film left the way open for a sequel.

As for the scenery, I was ready for that. After watching Xena for years I already knew that the New Zealand countryside is full of Assyrian temples. :)

Many a Xena/Hercules (as in, the New Zealand natives I mean) alumni cast and crew played significant parts in Lord of the Rings too; from actors to the costume designer (who won an Oscar for her work, well deserved!) to even extras were recognizable. Craig Parker, Karl Urban, Marton Csokas, etc. Even Lucy Lawless (Xena) was asked by Peter Jackson to audition for the role of "Galadriel" in "Lord of the Rings", but declined because her pregnancy would stall production.

i was so anoyed that they cut Tom out of those movies and the battle for the shire GRRRR

I would love to see the similion done, think that would be awsome

i was so anoyed that they cut Tom out of those movies and the battle for the shire GRRRR

I would love to see the similion done, think that would be awsome

yeah, i have to agree, i wish they spent more time showing us what they had to do to save the shire

That would have ruined the pacing though....The Hobbit and LOTR don't convert into the standard format for films because they both have an ending and then the journey home. What pissed me off more in the films were 1) Elves at Helm's Deep, 2) The army of the dead fighting at Minas Tirith and just killing everything, 3) Gimli becoming "comic relief" 4) That stupid scene with Legolas taking out the big elephant thing whose name I can't remember single-handedly and 5) Overuse of Crap CGI in the third film.

the army of the dead DID kill everything in the book

The elephant was called a HELIPHANT

your right about Gimli

And i SOOO want them to do the simerilian, i thought that book was BRILLANT

the army of the dead DID kill everything in the book

The elephant was called a HELIPHANT

your right about Gimli

And i SOOO want them to do the simerilian, i thought that book was BRILLANT

I thought they were called Oliphants in the books.

im going to have to go hire the books now but im sure it was heliphants

Oliphants


What spoils the whole film for me is bloody Frodo - what a creep was Elijah Wood

Ok i will conced (i dont have the book here so i cant prove it one way or the other anyway)

I actually thought he did well in the movie

I thought they were called Oliphants in the books.

I thought they just helped with the corsairs.