JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and Other Middle-Earth Stories Book • Page 15

yes it is

 

agreed

 

Sam had so many great moments. At the end of fellowship in the boat is my fav sam moment probably.

 

Sam is the hero of LOTR.

 

"Go back, Sam! I'm going to Mordor alone."
"Of course you are, and I'm coming with you."

 

Sean Astin was robbed of an Oscar (three peat)

 

the movies only ever got one acting nomination lol

 

Sam is 100% the protagonist of LOTR, the fact that Frodo gives him the books at the end just makes it super-literal

Faramir is my favourite character tho

 

Jim Broadbent in Iris (2001) [beating Ian McKellan]
Chris Cooper in Adaptation (2002)
Tim Robbins in Mystic River (2003)

imagine thinking those performances are better than Sam or Gandalf lmao now I’m mad again twenty years later

 

i mean, two of those three are indeed better haha.

 

I think ROTK is a slightly better movie than TTT, but not by much. This is probably the only trilogy in existence where someone could say any of them is the best movie and I couldn't disagree with them.

 

It’s definitely the most solid film trilogy, although it was written as a single book. I’m sure film nerds would disqualify it based on that.

 

Pedants would say it was written as six books. Each part is divided into two "books." Tolkien initially wanted it published as one book, but the publisher shot it down, so he wanted six books instead... which they also shot down. So they settled on three volumes, each containing two books.

 

Did he write them as six books? I was under the impression that they were completed as one book due to that being how he wanted the story published.

 

Not a Tolkien scholar, but Screenrant (https://screenrant.com/lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-6-books-why/) says that, per Tolkien's letters, he thought of them as six separate books. I think they would have been divided internally into six even if they were initially published in one volume.

 

I’m going to use this for trivia night

 

please double check that it's true! haha.

 

rotk ruled as well

 

All but the ghost pirates scene

 

truly awful lol

 

Ghost pirate scene is better in the extended version

 

everything's better in the extended versions

 

Lol, I was gonna say the ghost pirate scene is WORSE in the extended version. They're probably the weakest part of the movie so the less we see of them the better.

 

I’ve always hated the ghosts in general. Felt like an anticlimactic end to the battle.

 

It bothers me in the originals that you see them in the caves then not again until they are jumping off the boat at the battle. I liked that the extended gives you the scene of them getting out of the cave and onto the boat.