Posted on 05/19/2002 5:01:59 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Beyond this point there be spoilers!
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Don't say we didn't warn you! Spoilers are what this thread is all about. So bring your rumors (substantiated or not!), spoilers, spy reports, and bones of contention about them here as the snippets of TTT news, photos and interviews come rolling in.
I wouldn't even recommend pinging people to this thread unless you know they want to see them. There are a lot of purists out there that hate to have anything given away before the movie comes out. I, however, am not one of those.
I will start a "TTT spoilers ping list" separate from the other Tolkien ping lists… so let me know if you want to be on the spoiler alert list!" If we use this thread for that kind of stuff, we won't shock people who don't want to see it. (though I bet they look anyway!)
Report 'em if you got 'em!
Not.
The question is, how can you stand not to have *both*? Hey, I bought my first DVD player just so I could have and watch this movie! For the first time in my life, I'd actually love to own one of those huge big-screen setups. I'll be buying the extended edition, with the Argonauth bookends. I'll also be getting one of those green leaf brooches, the Middle Earth poster...I'm only upset that there really is so little merchandise. All that Star Wars junk I bought for my kids--I expected some nice stuff for LOTR for *me* and there's really very little. Jackson is dropping the ball on the merchandising. He could make enough on Arwen dolls to finance his production of the Hobbit.
Orlando Bloom definitely should lose the mohawk.
Isn't it amazing how the makeup and costuming change these actors? Liv Tyler seems so dizzy and silly, hubby didn't like her without the ears. Elijah Wood's eyes don't seem quite so enormous, but Christopher Lee has gravitas without the costume.
The scene of the Argonauth was just not the same on the small screen. I may have to get a bigger set. What might be better is some small movie theaters running it now and then.
NEW DOWNLOAD! Got it HERE:
War of the Ring
Here are the links to do it below.... Remember to Download rather than trying to stream it live (Right click/"save target as) This is the Preview trailer that was released in the theaters attached to FoTR in the Spring. It is the one previously only available on-line in that poor quality audience bootleg. What's new is the high quality Medium and even better, LARGE versions now available. I downloaded the Large, and the large version is beautifully clear even at full screen. 2J - I don't know if you can download things this big or not, but you would be so pleased at how clear Merry's scar is on his forehead in this version. Bright red blood and a cut. It is not a smudge, it is not your imagination, you are not crazy! (at least on this point).
I really tried to get a screencap, but since it is Media Player file, I don't know how - even print screen doesn't work. Penny how did you solve that?
The Two Towers Trailers
The First Preview Trailer (Tag On to The Fellowship of the Ring)
Medium - This is a poor quality handycam version, we will update it as soon as it is available.
Medium - Avi (17mb) - Far Higher quality version, a few subtitles, but no flickering! NEW!
Large - Avi (34mb) - The same as above, but bigger and better. NEW!
NB You need the latest DivX codec to play these last two files. You can get it here.
Oh yeah, I got bit by the bug early and am enthusiastically looking forward to some enterprising young director buying the rights to "The Silmarillion"...LOL!! Got the "FOTR" cassette and am making do so far, but I'd be willing to pay extra to get them to sell me the whole trilogy now!! Can't wait to see the Ents...I musta read the LOTR 3-4 times before I caught onto the significance of the Ents. Remember when Gandalf says to Frodo in the caves of Moria, "There are other forces at work in this World than the forces of Evil"? And that was interspersed with Saruman yankin' all those trees outta the ground to fire his Engines of War?! Well, it was the Ents who became aroused and totally destroyed Orthanc!!
The Ents are the Sheeple!! The Sheeple must become aroused this Autumn...MUD
BTW...I was quite disappointed in the Balrog in the movie, but I thought Sauron was credible...can y'all imagine how cool it would be to have Morgoth depicted on the big screen?!
That's Melkor fer you folks in Rio Linda...MUD
I have to say I was happy with PJ's Balrog, but that one had been so hard for me to picture in my mind that almost any image helped.
Glad you asked...my Balrog is the Balrog of The Brothers Hildebrandt, who used to put out an annual Tolkien calendar in the late 70's-early 80's. Every year, like clockwork, I would receive next to my stocking, the Annual Tolkien Calendar. I saved every one...LOL!!! But the Hildebrandt's version of the Balrog is the basis of the artwork for the second Mudboy Slim and the libertarians' cassette, "Atwater's Edge!!", which made the rounds in the late-90's.
"I have to say I was happy with PJ's Balrog, but that one had been so hard for me to picture in my mind that almost any image helped."
IMHO, it was too ethereal...a true Balrog is a physical speciman, I mean, why the heck did all them Orcs flee the scene as soon as they saw the glow of the Balrog?! Gimme a break...and I couldn't even see that Gandalf's leg was hooked with the Balrog's whip (looked almost like suicide...Gandalf possesses the magic to avoid the fall as depicted), and how the heck did Gandalf get his Staff back when he jumped onto the Eagles' back to escape Orthanc?! Awww, now you got me pickin' nits on perfection, IMHO.
Can't wait 'til October!!
FReegards...MUD
If we are picking nits, (which is sortof a gross habit), I thought they had Gandalf linger there too long clinging to the bridge. He hung on long enough for someone to run out and grab him, and there is Boromir holding Frodo back, and Aragorn standing dumbfound. It bothered me that he was hanging there that long and no one helped!
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