Lord of the Rings TV series synopsis

[FitzTheRuke]

I like the look of the dwarves. But yeah, too much filler angst and filler cartoon fights. Even Peter Jackson knows that he was phoning it in at the end, just sick and tired of the whole thing. He almost killed himself making LotR. He never wanted to do another massive trilogy.

 

[pukunui]

Though, if they really wanted to make an epic prequel trilogy, get the rights to the Silmarillion and make The Children of Hurin / Beren and Luthien / The Fall of Gondolin. That would be the epic to end all epics right there...

This. I think I was actually expecting that this would be the focus of this show. Oh well.


In defense of the Hobbit movies, PJ didn’t make it all up. A lot of the additional material is the connective “retconning” tissue from the Lord of the Rings - either stuff that Gandalf tells Frodo in the time that passes at the start of Fellowship or in the various appendices at the end of Return.

 

[R_J_K75]

Remember that The Hobbit was a children's book and for most of the story, the dwarves were bumbling fools who had to be saved several times by Bilbo.

Funny even though I read the Hobbit, watched the animated movie, had the picture book based on the movie and went to play of it all as a kid, I never realized it was written as a childrens book. I just kind of took it as a book everyone read. Guess Im just oblivious to the finer points of life sometimes.

 

[R_J_K75]

In defense of the Hobbit movies, PJ didn’t make it all up. A lot of the additional material is the connective “retconning” tissue from the Lord of the Rings - either stuff that Gandalf tells Frodo in the time that passes at the start of Fellowship or in the various appendices at the end of Return.

I do remembering reading an article online about the Hobbit movies stating that this was intended from the beginning and maybe to add some of the Silmarilion. The feeling was that one movie wasnt enough to tell the story and two was too many so they added filler. I've no clue how it got to three. I didnt read the LotR appendix, the Silmarilion or see all of the Hobbit trilogy so I cant say what exactly was added or from where.

 

[Morrus]

Funny even though I read the Hobbit, watched the animated movie, had the picture book based on the movie and went to play of it all as a kid, I never realized it was written as a childrens book. I just kind of took it as a book everyone read. Guess Im just oblivious to the finer points of life sometimes.

That’s because you were a kid. Do you fundamentally not understand the concept of children?

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I do remembering reading an article online about the Hobbit movies stating that this was intended from the beginning and maybe to add some of the Silmarilion. The feeling was that one movie wasnt enough to tell the story and two was too many so they added filler. I've no clue how it got to three. I didnt read the LotR appendix, the Silmarilion or see all of the Hobbit trilogy so I cant say what exactly was added or from where.

No, nothing from the Silmarillion. There were no rights for that included in the deal for the rights to The Hobbit and LotR. Everything extra plot-wise was from the Appendices in The Return of the King. But yes, the plan was for two movies from the beginning.

 

[Ryujin]

Funny even though I read the Hobbit, watched the animated movie, had the picture book based on the movie and went to play of it all as a kid, I never realized it was written as a childrens book. I just kind of took it as a book everyone read. Guess Im just oblivious to the finer points of life sometimes.

IIRC the books were written for Tolkien's children, so small surprise that the later books were written for a somewhat more mature audience.

 

[cmad1977]

The way the dwarves look is the main reason I couldnt take the movie seriously. They all look like Muppets and their hair is just ridiculous, except for top 2nd from the left guy looks like he should be in a Gillette commercial. How did Howard Wolowitz get in there? Seriously though giving this picture another look its pretty creepy on so many levels.

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The hair and makeup in these movies is of such embarrassingly low quality it’s hard to even describe.

 

[Ryujin]

The hair and makeup in these movies is of such embarrassingly low quality it’s hard to even describe.

48 frames a second and high def didn't do it any favours. My film making friends were pointing out the flaws in the makeup.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Battle of the Five Armies - one of the few movies I've almost walked out of (when the giant worms appeared, and I practically wanted to scream, "WHEN DID WE END UP IN DUNE?!", I was absolutely appalled).

???? Giant worms ??? WTF ???

It's official, my flabber has never been so ghasted.