WHy I HATE THE LOTR MOVIE!!! WHOS WITH ME!?!?!?

[kami]

Bilbo is a perfectly fine and respectable Hobbit name! :|

hehe it does sound kinda funny though. what about Peregrin (aka Pippin), Meriadoc (aka Merry), or Samwise?

 

[GuySmiley]

umm, didnt it say in the third book, when merry and pipin first enter Minas Tirith, that the townspeople thought they were children or something?

 

[Pliablemoose]

You'll like Frodo & Pippins then

 

[Karsten]

I never read the Books. I have it as a Audio book, but have not managed to get trough that.
So the only adaption I really know is the Cartoon Version. I guess that means I can almost go in as a Virgin and enjoy the incredible eye candy without being disapointed or constantly comparing!

Go see it. Don't over analyse. After the Movie take the time and compare... during... ENJOY! Because it does look like we are really in for a treat!

 

[jjones]

from the books, i would expect bilbo to be somewhat rotund but not frodo and the others, they were young hobbits and i didn't get the feeling of them being rotund at all during the books. shrek? give me a friggin break.

 

[GSOYF]

who gives a crap....the lord of the rings may be the worst book that I have ever read. Mind you that's a very short list, the book still sucked it up!

 

[isildur]

Wow, the silliness abounds today.

Tolkien himself has said repeatedly (as if the text wasn't enough) that Hobbits are a variety of Man-kind. In Middle Earth, there is really only a small variety of races. Elfs, Men (including Hobbits), and Dwarves - the rest (Trolls, Orcs) are all derivatives of these, with the exception of the occasional Istari or other supernatural being.

Hobbits should look essentially like people - keep in mind that Jackson has read the series more than you, Christopher Lee has read the series more than you, and Alan Lee has read the series more than you (otherwise you would have known that Hobbits look like people). Sure there are changes, but these guys know the text and they know what they're doing to the degree that, while we may not like some of the plot changes, they will be faithful to such fundamental things as making Hobbits "look" like they should.

Also, please keep in mind that this movie hans't even been released yet, and you are already denouncing it.

[Bugs Bunny] Whata maroon. [/Bugs Bunny]

MOVIES SHOULD STAY AS MOVIES
BOOKS SHOULD STAY AS BOOKS

This is so assinine that I really can't even think of anything appropriately mindless in response.
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If you are so fixated on everything looking like you think it should, and consider your vision the definitive one, then I recommend that you stick to your books, toss your TV and never leave the house, lest you contaminate the purity of your righteous vision.

 

[isildur]

GSOYF - your opinion really isn't surprising. Most Americans do read at a Jr. High level after all.

 

[EXman]

Dood Liv Tyler as a elf looks good. (unless she is playing a guy then that is a turn off LoL)

 

[StageLeft]

I always thought a hobit looked like how they have on there but perhaps a bit fater. I never thought they looked unhumanly - just smaller and fat.

 

[kami]

Well said isildur



<< If you are so fixated on everything looking like you think it should, and consider your vision the definitive one, then I recommend that you stick to your books, toss your TV and never leave the house, lest you contaminate the purity of your righteous vision. >>


I also recommend he doesn't smoke the ganji next time he reads it...Shrek?!?! LMAO Everyone has their own interpretation but this interpretation was thought up under some kind of "influence" since Tolkien doesn't mention them looking like deformed ogres anywhere.



<< GSOYF - your opinion really isn't surprising. Most Americans do read at a Jr. High level after all. >>


SMACK

 

[JasonG]

I recently reread LOTR and as I remember it, Frodo initially was maybe a little fat. But, as the movie went on, all of them became thiner because they didn't have much to eat on the journey.

I would hope that they are able to reproduce that effect in the movies by adding padding to them and then removing it as the movie progresses.

And yes, the hobbits are just like little people, in general.

I guess the could have used midgets (small real people) but they instead choose to use perspective to make the hobbits look smaller than everyone else, about 4 feet tall.

We'll see how well that works.

Can't wait!

Jason

 

[syf3r]

GSOYF

yeah, you're right.. the books sucked, which is why over 100,000,000 people have read them and they're held among the ranks of english literature, unlike the comic books you must be accustomed to. perhaps the story was a bit over your head? kinda hard to follow without pictures, huh?

syf3r.