Posted on 12/26/2011 5:31:35 PM PST by dagogo redux
I checked on our county library website, and they have the audiobooks of Rob Inglis reading the Hobbit and LOTR, unabridged. This sounds like what I’m looking for, so I plan to embark on this project probably starting in mid-April (busy with other things till then).
Audiobook Read by Phil Dragash and edited, and mixed, sound-effected, and designed. Music by Howard Shore for the Films by New Line Cinema.
I have not watched my extended BD yet and this week may be the best time to do it.
I like the LOTR but every so often I want to watch the 1967 Russian version of WAR AND PEACE, followed by Dino de Laurentus’ WATERLOO on those cold winter nights.
But then I also like to watch EL CID smash the moslem moors in Spain.
The musical score by Mr. Shore is another huge plus for the film format, and another somewhat unnoticed area in which the full flow of the extended version shines. The inspiring leitmotifs create indelible felt experiences that weave throughout and bind together the various elements of the story. It couldn’t have been done better.
You’re welcome. I have enjoyed listening to it.
Firefly!!!! A show that should have never been cancelled!!
The first movie came out less than six months after the late Freeper MrConfettiMan found out he had cancer. This was his favorite line:
Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.
I don't know where I saw it, but there was a feature about one scene in particular in the movies. Frodo and Sam were supposed to push a boat in the water, so divers had gone in to scour the river floor to make sure there was no debris because the actors were barefoot. However, when they started filming, Sean Astin walked a few feet into the water and got a look on his face that alerted everyone that something was wrong. The divers had missed a piece of glass, and it had impaled Sean's foot. He had to be flown to a medical center.
I can't watch that scene without picturing--feeling--the glass piercing Sean's foot. Oh, well. I liked the books better anyway. It's about time to read them again.
I also watch the movies again in the darkest part of the year. The extended versions improve what is already wonderful material.
That being said, I had a hard time reconciling some of the awful liberties and made up scenes that Jackson put in the movies. An example of perhaps the worst made up scene is where one of the hobbits (Pippin perhaps?) rides on a reluctant to go to battle Treebeard and convinces him through an emotional tirade to join the war.
Almost unforgivable (and there were others)
Being not to far from Rice U, would be frequented by certain garmet-clad patrons living the "Goode Life" . Feel free to wear your pointy ears and hairy feets.
http://www.myhobbitcafe.com/
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