Jack Law's Lord of the Rings Thread.

Mr. Tea

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The other day I saw a teenage girl with these big plastic elf ears sticking out from under her hair. Made her look like one of luka's fantasy girlfriends from this thread.

OTOH, maybe she was a real elf!!!
 
luka

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They're not my fantasy women Jack told me he likes to have innocent childhood wanks to elf porn sometimes to cleanse the palette hence the thread
 
Mr. Tea

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yyaldrin said:
i'm gonna make a lasagna and watch all of the lord of the ring movies this weekend, i haven't seen them since they first came out. let's see!
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You watching the regular or extended edition? The latter is good, although spoiled a bit by the scene where the Witch-King breaks Gandalf's staff, which is BULLSHIT.
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
Mr. Tea said:
You watching the regular or extended edition? The latter is good, although spoiled a bit by the scene where the Witch-King breaks Gandalf's staff, which is BULLSHIT.
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i'm not sure, i was thinking of watching the regular ones as they are already quite long right? i'm kinda expecting them to be very disappointing and crappy looking after all these years?
 
Mr. Tea

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I watched them all a year or two ago and I don't think the SFX have aged badly at all. It's funny how that can either happen or not - I mean, the stop-motion Terminator in the first film looks pretty ropy today, whereas the liquid T1000 from the second film, only a few years later, still looks pretty cool, I think.

You're right though, even the 'short' versions are a massive slog.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

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When I asked Thiel about the risk of abuse with Palantir, he answered by referring to the company’s literary roots. “The Palantir device in the Tolkien books was a very ambiguous device in some ways,” he said. “There were a lot of people who looked into it and saw more than they should see, and things went badly wrong when they did.” But that didn’t mean the Palantir itself was flawed. “The Tolkien point I always make is that at the end of the day, it was actually a good device that was critical to the plot of the whole story. The way it worked was that Aragorn looked into the Palantir, and he showed Sauron the sword with which the One Ring had been cut off Sauron’s fingers at the end of the Second Age. This convinced Sauron that Aragorn had the One Ring and caused Sauron to launch a premature attack that emptied out Mordor and enabled the hobbits to sneak in to destroy the One Ring.” He continued: “The plot action was driven by the Palantir being used for good, not for evil. This reflected Tolkien’s cosmology that something that was made by the good elves would ultimately be used for good.”

A moment later, he added: “That’s roughly how I see it, that it is ultimately good and still very dangerous. In some ways, I think that was reflected in the choice of the name.”
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yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
luka said:
He loves it it's his favourite film book. That's why he's got his own LOTR thread.
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yeh i didn't understand the title of this thread, i never heard him mentioning the lord of the rings but i'm not surprised, it suits his character.
 
luka

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Where were we having a big discussion about the fantasy genre recently? It's inherently backward looking and that seems to correlate to inherently reactionary.
NRx is computer programmers dreaming of feudalism and buxom serving wenches carrying jugs of mead and that is exactly the audience for fantasy
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

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Kids love it too, though, are they inherently reactionary?

One thing I will say is that LOTR is a more or less totally sexless, male-dominated world and I think that appeals to me as somebody who's scared and horrified by sex. That would partly explain why my other favourite film is Master and Commander: At The Far End of the World Where There Are Only Passing References To Women.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

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Some of the worst bits in the LOTR films are when they try and shoehorn in some romance.

It might have been better if they'd shoehorned some animalistic fucking in there, though.
 
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