Jack Law's Lord of the Rings Thread.

These dynamics occur within us all of course but in the trenchcoat warlock we see them aestheticised, rendered beautifully in the clothes, the walk, the sound of the voice, the sense of humour
 

version

Well-known member
You’re at the beginning of your national tour. What’s changed about your audience over the years?
Someone remarked last night about how mellow they are, easygoing folks. I used to get more really intense and kind of destabilized folks. I think that was the hard cyberpunk days. When I started writing more about characters who had parents and relationships and emotions, the black-trench-coat guys kind of faded.

Do you miss them?
Not particularly. I didn’t mind them at the time. It just seems like another era now.
 

luka

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mixed_biscuits

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Been dressing more like this recently:
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Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
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
This thread's from a decade ago, but touches on much of the same stuff.

 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
i needed a week to come trough the first one. one thing i noticed is that gandalf isn't that kind and sweet as i remembered him to be. lots of scenes where he's very angry and condescending towards other characters. another thing i found peculiar is that nobody is swearing. they run into so much trouble and none of them even says fuck. i thought it might have to do with making the movie also appropriate for children but at the same time there's a lot of beheadings going on so that don't make sense?
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I would like to see a more gritty version of LOTR where you get to see the orcs rampaging through Rohan's villages like the Nazis in Eastern Europe.

Gandalf can be a bit of a cunt but as I recall he's much more of a cunt in the books. Ian McKellen gives him a twinkly-eyed grandfatherly vibe.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Saw a new one the other day... I guess one you win the cunt wars, you get to rule your own....

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Or possibly, now that the enormity of Britain's territorial holdings can no longer be truthfully described as "The Empire on which the sun never sets" they are going to rename it with another prosaically descriptive title that's a little more accurate. Might be best to just wait until the Scots finally leave and then we could settle for this as the final title as the whole sorry thing circles the plughole and finally, embarrassingly sinks slowly and pathetically into the sea with a depressingly racist whimper.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Gandalf can be a bit of a cunt but as I recall he's much more of a cunt in the books. Ian McKellen gives him a twinkly-eyed grandfatherly vibe.
As the popular saying has it, "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they can be right mardy cunts."
 

catalog

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Those putlocker and 123 ads imprint on the brain. You close them as soon as you see them but there is a subliminal effect.

The oddest ones are the YouTubes you have to watch for 5 seconds, that are hindi pop songs or Korean cooking shows.
 

Leo

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The long-lost Lord of the Rings adaptation from Soviet Russia is a glorious fever dream

You may think you’re familiar with The Lord of the Rings, but nothing can quite prepare you for an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy text made in the Soviet Union. The adaptation focuses only on the first book of Tolkein’s trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, and is a riot of low-budget special effects, bizarre camera work, and Soviet mood music. Rather than the epic Hollywood fantasy captured so well by Peter Jackson, this adaptation feels like a weird fairy tale told by a pipe-smoking madman in the woods. In other words: it captures a completely legitimate aspect of The Lord of the Rings, just not one we’re necessarily used to.

 

wektor

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I'm still thinking of how deep the porn game music must be in the minds of todays youth, considering the bass twangs of the 80s are so stereotypically connected with the image.
Seriously waiting for someone to research that from the sonic arts angle.
 
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