Posted on 08/18/2022 7:11:55 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
I liked the movies but I was a little annoyed that he had to invent new creatures, and re-write some scenes.
For example “Rhosgobel rabbits” scene.
There is no such scene in the books- Was there not enough fantastic material to choose from? He felt he could do better?
Don't acknowledge it, don't talk about it, pretend it doesn't exist.
And you will certainly hear the "Lamentations off da vymen", whatever the manifestation of a "woman" is to the left.
>> There are female dwarves with beards. Yep, they have trans-dwarves. <<
Nope, that’s from Tolkein. Dwarf women would tie their hair under their necks to emulate beards when they engaged in male behavior, such as war. He’s apparently referencing other legends.
To say how authentic this is to ancient legends is tricky. “Elf” has come to mean a thousand different things. Some see elf as intrinsically female, and therefore see dwarves as intrinsically male, although such “elves” probably were closer to brownies, hobgoblins, fairies, or the like. Some saw gender in dwarves as meaningless, since in their minds, dwarves were didn’t reproduce sexually, but were hewn as adults out of stone. Tolkein apparently rejected both notions and playfully suggested why so few humans have ever seen female dwarves, but he did NOT see this as transgenderism because among dwarves, they held to traditionally female roles.
In fairness to Jackson, he thought there was only enough material for two “Hobbit” movies, but the studio insisted on three so he had to add filler crap like Radagast’s scenes.
“We wuz Rangz!”
Either the writers don't know much about LOTR, or they simply give the producers and directors whatever they want, or both.
Bkmk
I’ve reached a point where if it’s a historical drama I only watch it if its foreign - meaning Japanese, Korean, Eastern European, even Chinese & Russian and a few others.
I tolerate the subtitles.
If its Anglosphere directed and produced its usually too “woke” to watch!
Song of the South is out there. Available on Ebay, but not cheap. The PC crowd is really missing out. It is a classic.
My wife and I pretty much avoid all new movies and TV shows. There are tons of things to watch that were made before the Woke-ists took over, and we have quite a few on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital. In recent years, the last movies I saw theatrically were the remake of Midway, the WWI movie 1917, Avengers Endgame and Darkest Hour (the film about Churchill). We saw Dune Part 1 (liked it) on HBO Max as well as The Batman on HBO Max (didn't particularly care for it).
Over the past couple of weeks we have watched several Hollywood classics, mostly starring Bogart. Earlier this week we watched a classic samurai movie called Harakiri from 1962. There is plenty to watch without wasting our remaining years on woke crap and superhero movies.
but they left so much out, they didn’t need to make up something new.
Yeah, when "Follow The Yellow Brick Road" which actually had meaning, gets replaced with "Ease On Down The Road".
Are you talking about the Hobbit movies, or LOTR? Because I’d agree they left a bunch out of LOTR, but I still don’t see enough material for three movies about the Hobbit.
Or maybe an orc struggling with his sexuality
I’ve read LOTR and the Song of Ice and Fire books, which is why I refuse to watch the film versions. I don’t mind reading a book after seeing the movie (usually), but it’s very rarely good the other way around. The only exception that I can think of was To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Jeeves and Wooster TV shows were pretty good, but Stephen Fry was just not the right actor to play Jeeves. Hugh Laurie, on the other hand, was exactly as I had always pictured Bertie Wooster.
Christopher Tolkien died in January of 2020. As an editor himself he guarded LOTR canon closely because he knew what would happen to it in the wrong hands. And so it has. As the author of this piece put it:
The show is D&D fan-fiction pretending to be Tolkien.
It's a little unfair to expect a group of screenwriters hired under criteria other than talent to produce the sort of luminous prose Tolkien spent decades to craft. And it's a mistake to think that one has to understand something before it's "reimagined" - in fact, the opposite is true, and it shows.
But it's particularly gratifying to note the ferocious blowback this scrap of literary Newspeak has elicited. It's imitative crap. That's all it could ever be.
Agreed. We record tons of tmc movies.. the o ly recent movie I’ve seen ,ately was the joker movie. I thought it would,be all woke, but surprisingly it wasn’t and was a pretty good movie. But mostly it’s the old movies for us.
Agreed. I liked the whole,”way over the top” aspect of,the movie ( but I have always loved martial arts movies with its impossible feats lol), so the kill bill movie appealed to me.
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