Widget ImageNarnia and Lord of the Rings | Page 2 | Random Topics | Community

Welcome to the new Moody Blues Today forums. When using the below forums you will need to create a new username and password than what you had used on the old forums.

Avatar

Please consider registering
guest

sp_LogInOut Log In

Lost password?
Advanced Search

— Forum Scope —




— Match —





— Forum Options —





Minimum search word length is 3 characters - maximum search word length is 84 characters

The forums are currently locked and only available for read only access
This topic is locked
sp_Feed Topic RSS sp_TopicIcon
Narnia and Lord of the Rings
July 8, 2014
8:38 pm
Avatar
lunazure
Member
Forum Posts: 3294
Member Since:
September 25, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

Thank you! I'm re-watching the two Hobbit films and extended LOTR right now... taking a break. It's great to run in the background while doing my clean up chores around here. (You can't believe the really BAD filing system around here... lots to burn tonight). I love the books and the movies for different reasons............. the books are very poetic... most of it wonderful, some of it a bit tedious, but his prose is very nice in spots too. They really dug into the characters too, and filled them out (that from an actor's point of view) the movies were all obviously a labor of love for ALL the actors. Other than Ian McClellan mispronounced a few words, all the actors nailed the parts. But I noticed just today for example, there is a book description of the head piece Arwen is wearing at a dinner in Rivendell, and they duplicated it (very closely) in the final scene of the movie. Little details like that............ like I say a labor of love.

Watching the Hobbit movies back to back has given me a better appreciate for the "dwarvish" way ........... a gnarly lot they were!

And the great animation of the Ents!!!! Shucks they can do anything they want with the movie, after nailing THAT.... perfect!!! I sorta like the variations in the plot, since I know the books by heart almost.... it's new surprises and such. I'm wondering if Tariel (the new Elf chick in the Hobbit) will get bumped off in the War of the Five Armies or not.

Somehow my second disk of the first LOTR movie got scratched Frown and I've been living with this chopped up version of the Mines of Moria for a while. So I reordered it used off Amazon, allegedly the disks are good, don't care what shape the outside is in. And bought a new Two Towers too........ my original first edition Ballentine paperback (bought in the '60s) is in rags........... so my summer is going lovely. Nothing like diving back into the land of Middle Earth for the holidays!

July 12, 2014
11:42 am
Avatar
MagicalBlueTail
Member
Forum Posts: 166
Member Since:
September 30, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

you're welcome-thought you'd appreciate this as well...I have to agree with the designer that one cannot bring the character to life without wearing the costume-it would be like tasting a bland food, would it not? Of course, my favorite is Aragorns and the Elves costumes...

July 12, 2014
2:08 pm
Avatar
lunazure
Member
Forum Posts: 3294
Member Since:
September 25, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

OH what a marvelous video! I'm sure it's in the extended packet somewhere, but I STILL haven't explored that whole thing! I honestly shuddered looking at that wardrobe room, you CANNOT believe how complicated it is to keep track of costumes for small productions, much less huge ones. and you always feel like a mother hen, hovering over costumes you put a lot of hand work into. An actor can destroy all that in a single scene shot. gosh, 8 copies of each costume.... I guess you'd have to do that, with a long shoot of a year, not to mention the stunt doubles.

The costumer was dedicated too........... she pronounced Tolkien's name right! Things that really impressed me:

>All the detailed hand stitching.
>Notice that Saruman's costume is an eggshell white. You can't put pure white on stage or on screen, it's blinding. Yet it looked "white enough" in the scenes didn't it?
> She was swift enough to differentiate between the High Elves of Rivendell, and the woodland elves (Sindar) of Lorien.

In short, I would be happy to work at minimum wages for a costume mistress like this. She's fab!

July 15, 2014
7:05 pm
Avatar
MagicalBlueTail
Member
Forum Posts: 166
Member Since:
September 30, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

lunazure said

The costumer was dedicated too........... she pronounced Tolkien's name right! Things that really impressed me:

I noticed that too Wink

I'd seen this for some time, and finally decided to post it--it'sreally cute...Laugh

July 15, 2014
8:01 pm
Avatar
MagicalBlueTail
Member
Forum Posts: 166
Member Since:
September 30, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

https://i0.wp.com/i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll130/middleearthdweller/7e07c3b4-7e98-4b6c-9d0f-862a9c7ffbd1_zps16c9f132.jpg?w=100Image Enlarger

This is my own special LOTR photo..."Lord Of The Ring" (actually it's my Excalibur replica) Jackson Lake, Florala, Nov 2007. Using a cheap disposable walmart camera, I took the shot thinking it would be perfect. A man asked me what I was doing, "being Lady of the Lake for a day?" I guess so, I replied. Next day, upon developing the film, however, I discovered a "perfect blemish" on my photo and determined this was a definite keeper!

4+7=11

July 15, 2014
9:44 pm
Avatar
leslee
Member
Forum Posts: 3631
Member Since:
September 25, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

That's a great photo for meditation on waves. I see the waves in the sand, but it appears the sword is up to the hilt in the water because of a reflection off the glint, but there also appears to be a temperature inversion a few inches above the sand, because the blade refracts, and both the straight-down and the refracted images of the sword have shadows. The photo is beautiful to boot, very artistic. Thanks for sharing.

July 15, 2014
10:19 pm
Avatar
lunazure
Member
Forum Posts: 3294
Member Since:
September 25, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

Super nice photo!!! don't you love it when that happens? I wonder how they developed all this Elvish.... we tried to put it together long ago, and gave up (high school, we were ate up with LOTR, my best friend became a language major). Gotta get to New Zealand one of these days.... I've heard it really is beautiful, and from the movie you can tell that. Wide open spaces too. Still not quite through Fellowship yet, they're getting ready to leave Lorien. The book is so much in depth... so enjoyable to read after seeing even the extended version, and filling in.

August 1, 2014
2:46 pm
Avatar
MagicalBlueTail
Member
Forum Posts: 166
Member Since:
September 30, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

Just saw that-yeah, it was pretty good :)

August 1, 2014
4:27 pm
Avatar
lunazure
Member
Forum Posts: 3294
Member Since:
September 25, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

I guess that is an Easter Egg on the extended version.... I went through all of those, haven't seen them for a while.

Reading through them still. They just mopped up the battle of Pelannor. Much different in the book, more characters of course, more "fleshed out"........ I always forget what a wonderful novel it really is until I re-read it about every 7 years.... it's making the summer rather magical.

Sphinx, very glad you goaded me into action. Indeed there is a lot out there for trailers! It just occured to me that this must have been released to time with Comic Con in San Diego. (My Ex and I went there many years ago, it was enjoyable, even in the 80s)

So here's some treats..... glad to see Billy Boyd's voice used again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIA_sav1dLU

August 2, 2014
12:36 pm
Avatar
MagicalBlueTail
Member
Forum Posts: 166
Member Since:
September 30, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

lunazure said

I guess that is an Easter Egg on the extended version.... I went through all of those, haven't seen them for a while.

Reading through them still. They just mopped up the battle of Pelannor. Much different in the book, more characters of course, more "fleshed out"........ I always forget what a wonderful novel it really is until I re-read it about every 7 years.... it's making the summer rather magical.

Sphinx, very glad you goaded me into action. Indeed there is a lot out there for trailers! It just occured to me that this must have been released to time with Comic Con in San Diego. (My Ex and I went there many years ago, it was enjoyable, even in the 80s)

So here's some treats..... glad to see Billy Boyd's voice used again...

Yeah I think Pippins song was appropriate enough for the official teaser trailer (the first one you posted, the second on I think is one someone else that other than PJ and company put together) The official trailer for the Battle Of Five Armies is due out sometime in October, if I am reading things right....

but I do think someone from within released this some time ago this year...I am particularly excited about this since it will be the first and only Hobbit/LOTR I will get to see on the silver screen :)

August 2, 2014
2:57 pm
Avatar
lunazure
Member
Forum Posts: 3294
Member Since:
September 25, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

You know, it truly is a labor of love, those people working on this.... you forget sometimes how popular the books were. Everyone who was a "reader" in High school, munched through them. Several times in many cases. There were those who let a large novel intimidate them, then there were those of us who ran around writing Elvish on the chalkboards.... those suits of armor look like metal, but I bet they're plastic and lightweight. Fantastic. And the detailing of the weapons.... I have a book full of nothing but weapons to go with the Hobbit. Gorgeous design work.

YEAH........ you're gonna love it on the big screen. I still cherish that night I went to the midnight showing for *Return of the King* and almost had a heart attack when the eagles attacked the Nazgul.......... that's pretty intense from the 3rd row at 2 am!!!

I'll have to find all those FB LOTR sites (don't suppose you'd post a few?) instead of obsessing on MBs .......... as fond as I am of the boys. The show went down pretty well last night apparently, and that is all good.

it is REALLY nice going through the book at a slower pace than my normal reading, and finding the exact words were used in many scenes from the movie. And nice to see how the actors interpreted them. And how some lines that for example, Theoden said in the book, were actually from Eomer, that sort of thing. Tolkien would have been annoyed no doubt. Laugh

August 5, 2014
7:40 pm
Avatar
MagicalBlueTail
Member
Forum Posts: 166
Member Since:
September 30, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

I'll see if I can PM you over on your BlueMoon Site, if that is okay, for the FB sites. Yeah, I'm looking forward to something like that....I don't suppose JRRs son really takes into account that "all movies are BASED on stories" (hence his caustic comment about Jackson's endeavors) :)

here's another link tho...three stills and more elsewhere

http://www.theonering.net/torw.....ve-armies/

https://i0.wp.com/i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll130/middleearthdweller/Kz0snpr_zpsee89caf7.jpg?w=100Image Enlarger

August 5, 2014
10:49 pm
Avatar
lunazure
Member
Forum Posts: 3294
Member Since:
September 25, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

I have a public email it's ok to use. josiec5150@gmail.com. PM on yuku drives me nuts....

Thank you..........

yeah, the movie is for sure different than the movie.... a bit like Justin's solos are much different than the main Moody show. Both have worth. I think, and I actually meant to ask you this today and had forgotten.... the Scouring of the Shire was the real coda to the entire piece. And Jackson "tossed it" saying "I never liked that part"............ I think Tolkien would have been HIGHLY peeved. The whole point was, evil isn't something that happens far away.... it's in your own back yard. And the four hobbits were veterans who brought back the will to stand on their own feet and save themselves.

I'll check the site... thank you! Keep on keeping on............... Laugh

Having checked the site.... OOOggg cool! Yeah I'm suspecting they'll bump off Tariel (Legolas's love interest) in the Battle of the Five Armies, along with those we expect to get bumped. I wonder if they'll leave in the talking ravens. (Ok I'm weird but I talk to my crows here... interesting birds). Sigh, sure to be lots of ugh, grunt and hack slash.... seems to be what sells these days. Re-reading the books, Tolkien didn't hold back on the gore either (I loved his description of the Tower of Cirith Ungol) , but it just doesn't have the impact when reading, that the visuals have.

May 14, 2015
7:09 pm
Avatar
lunazure
Member
Forum Posts: 3294
Member Since:
September 25, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline

Regarding Blue Wizards: found this over on the Silmarillion FB page. Cool stuff!!!!!!!!

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_Wizards

Ghostie are you out there?

March 26, 2017
6:57 pm
Avatar
lunazure
Member
Forum Posts: 3294
Member Since:
September 25, 2013
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
This topic is locked
Forum Timezone: UTC -4

Most Users Ever Online: 87

Currently Online:
4 Guest(s)

Currently Browsing this Page:
1 Guest(s)

Top Posters:

nancyg: 5192

moodytoni2: 3981

leslee: 3631

lunazure: 3294

moodyballetdancer: 689

forevermoody: 291

maitrishah1: 253

Eastojamson: 245

milkwhitegown: 190

MagicalBlueTail: 166

Member Stats:

Guest Posters: 0

Members: 2655

Moderators: 2

Admins: 1

Forum Stats:

Groups: 7

Forums: 20

Topics: 604

Posts: 19552

Newest Members:

simonaragazza, MarkBerger, hefide9605, melvinburk, Billie34, Evanyost, Jenny110, bomojiy124, Doby1996, Josiaheyes

Moderators: Andy Martel: 0, Michelle: 0

Administrators: admin: 0