Amph One Thread To Rule Them All: The Rings of Power + The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Trilogies

No because that's silly and far too nerdy for me.


(I also hate steampunk).

 

Schwarzenegger's Last Stand opened in tenth place for the four-day holiday weekend...earning less than The Hobbit. lol

Arnold would have made a great Gandalf.

 

I'll be back...

 

He should probably stop saying that at this point.

 

Fixed.

 

You killed my mudduh! You killed my fadduh! You killed my people! You shall not pass!

 

So as for what nerdy Tolkien thing did I do today?

I wore this shirt:

http://www.threadless.com/submission/255093/Middle_Earth_Metro/showmore,designs

 

We also got to see a hilariously awful Soviet TV production of The Hobbit from 1985. I challenged Everton to write an EWOT review of it.

 

The only hilariously awful thing is your preconceived notion of what a Hobbit adaptation should be. That production was and still is brilliant.

 

Another short, but brilliant Armitage interview from Movieline, in which he shows yet again that he knows his Tolkien (from the Dwarves' war cry to the author's distaste for allegory). And also that any actor worth their salt should know their Shakespeare, for it might come in handy for their most unexpected journeys...

Cheers,
Lauré

 

Well I certainly don't think it should have an orange Thorin, a pervy-looking Gandalf and dancing goblins in tights - not if it aimed to be taken as a serious adaptation instead of a pythonesque parody.

 

Thanks for the link, Miana! I just got myself the t-shirt. It's the perfect geeky piece of clothing to wear when I go see the ME films in the theatre, and understated enough so that I don't feel out of place even if it's not premiere night...

Cheers,
Lauré

 

Miana Kenobi
Because that link would not go unanswered, and because I always think of witty comebacks hours too late...
[quaint Brit accent] "One does not simply walk into Mordor... One takes the Tube, my dear." [/quaint Brit accent]

Cheers,
Lauré

 

Fixed.

But yeah... it was like watching the Pythons do 'The Hobbit'.

 

Trailer to Desolation of Smaug to premiere on the internet March 24th.

So long as you have the Ultraviolet code from one of the home releases that is.

 

Not wasting any time getting the blue ray out. March 18???

 

Ultraviolet doesn't exist in Australia (presumably not in NZ either) so I wonder if we just get a promo piece of paper inside the packaging with a code...

 

Seems about normal these days. Skyfall is out on home release in just a couple of weeks.

 

That's what I get for waiting for the EE.

 

It'll be on YouTube soon enough. I'll wait.

 

It's not like someone won't crack it and post it on YouTube/Vimeo/whatever...

 

UPDATE: I still haven't seen this movie.

 

Oh dude, you've missed out on so much nothing!

 

Since this is a thread for Tolkien things: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil. From all the Bombadil speculations I have read this one is the best even though and because it's furthest from the truth.

 

Neither have I.

If we're lucky, Disney will buy the rights to all things Tolkien and we'll get a Bombadill spin-off movie!!!!!!