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

That one is fan-made, here's the official music video with shots from all six films and some behind the scenes:

 

I realized this was the wrong one

There is another one that has footage from all 6 films

 

OK... the one in the post above yours, right?

 

The official one is much better.

Evil.

 

Yup, the one Lugija posted is the official one

 

I...just listened to this song for the first time...no, I'm not crying right now, why do you ask?



Seriously, I think that the price of the ticket would be worth it just to hear this song.

 

That was........ The feels............. Wow.

 

What got me was that when he said "The Last Goodbye" the second-to-last time, it appeared the clips they were playing were of the cast saying goodbye to each other. And then when the song ended, Frodo closed the book. It was about as symbolic a statement of "this saga is almost over...for good" as you could get. "The feels" indeed. I've watched this thing three times today and it still gets me.

 

I wish PJ could continue to make Middle Earth movies with a whole new cast(different characters, of course).

 

Samwise still has room for a story. According to Frodo in the book but the timeline messes with that doesn't it?

 

The Trilogy was great(I would call flawless if there was no undead army), the Hobbit, I predicted the problem when they expanded it to three and created original character Tauriel, but it was still good to see Middle Earth again.

 

The LOTR is one of the greatest Trilogies ever made, no doubt about it.

Nothing wrong about creating a character especially they needed more female characters in the movie

They did that with LOTR, Lurtz is a movie character, he was never in the book

 

There were a bunch more to use if you need female elves.

 

Christopher Tolkien won't let him.

 

And thank Illuvatar for that.

 

Well to be perfectly fair, a lot of the other stuff, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, etc is really more the domain of the hardcore Tolkien geek and may not be easily adaptable or all that accessible to the average movie goer.

 

I can see it now...

"The Silmarillion was only 384 pages!!!! DURRRR RAGE CASH GRAB!"

 

Meh, these hardcore book fans simply hate the movies for no reason.

 

There are plenty of films that could be made from things like the Silmarillion. I certainly wouldn't trust Jackson to make them, though, after the Hobbit cashgrabs—er, films.
In a theoretical world, though, there could be some absolutely amazing Silmarillion films (or a television series, if they had the budget) next to (some combination of two of) "An Unexpected Journey," "The Road Goes Ever On," and "There and Back Again" on my shelves. "Children of Hurín," "The Lay of Lethian," "The Music of Creation" "The Fall of Gondolin," "The War of Wrath," etc.
That is not the world we live in, however.

 

I think Christopher Tolkien's dislike of the mpvies comes from two places. The first is as the literary executor of JRR Tolkien's body of work, and therefore his legacy. The second is because Christopher Tolkien is the unsung second author of Lord of the Rings.

 

They just think the movie must be totally the same with the books, but it's not how we make movies.

 

No it's not. A word for word adaptation of a 1,500 page novel is simply not feasible.

 

Yeah, also novel and movies are different ways to present the story. But many hardcore book fans just don't accept any changes, even reasonable ones.

 

first of all, saying that christopher tolkien shares the complaints, or should be lumped into the same category as "hardcore book fans" is pretty silly. he can reserve the right to be as picky as he wants when it's his father's work that's being adapted, or in the case of the hobbit films bastardized.

second, on the topic of the hobbit and "hardcore book fans", i don't think most want a film that is exactly the same as the book. speaking for myself, i would be happy with an adaptation that followed the basic narrative and spirit of the book. obviously pj is going to have his cgi embellishments and some scenes would have to be altered so they played well on screen, but all the love triangles and invented villains and stuff pulled from the appendices to extend the story to an improbable three films are absolutely unnecessary and alter the story so much that it is almost unrecognizable.

for the record, i'm a fan of pj's lotr adaptations.

 

Technically, most of that stuff doesn't even come from the appendices, or was at least heavily warped in the making.