"WELCOME" "KIA ORA" to all the HOBBIT FANS to 'Middle Of Middle-Earth' WELLINGTON, capital of Aotearoa / New Zealand.
I have lived in Wellington for over 30 years. Indigenous of Maori and Moriori descent To date I have over $20,000 (NZ) worth of LORD OF THE RINGS Collections, 20% of these collections have been personally signed by the Cast and Crew. Have now started collecting THE HOBBIT memorabilia. There goes my pocket money :D
Can nybody direct me to this short masterpiece? I'm looking for a DVD for few years now, ale there's nowhere to be found. I even check for "online versions" ;-) of it, but there is no single seed, only leeches with 50.1% of the material. I watch it whole in Aircraft Museum in Cracow in Poland and since then I'm looking for it. I'm obviously happy to buy an original DVD.
A truly wonderful video - thank you for posting this. I have learnt so much more about Tolkien's life over recent years, and I now have a greater understanding of just where his inspirations and his comments about life and society, especially about industry and commerce come from, and this helps with a greater depth of understanding each time I read the LOTR trilogy or the Hobbit. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the style of speech we hear here is not dissimilar to JRRs, but tempered with a touch of the Paul Whitehouse's Rowley Birkin character from the Fast Show.
When all boiled out and condensed Tolkien appears to use "The Machine" and thereby Industrialization to mean the downside of the focus on materialism as a way to replace what God intended for us. Transitory, unfulfilling, requiring excess to renew satisfaction like a drug. It's good he didn't use his fantasy as allegory as strongly as C S Lewis or LOR would have been horribly tainted. First and foremost, Tolkien's desire was to entertain and do it through a believable world which didn't exist but used images and terms everyone understood.
The Lord of the Rings is wonderful storytelling but hardly literature. The language of LOTR and the Silmarillion, when we can finally find a less stilted portion of the latter, is uninspiring. It's better than JKR but nowhere near literature. Read a paragraph of the Brontes, for example, or of Ernest Hemingway, and then a paragraph of Tolkien, and it's like falling from the heights to a hole in the ground.
Judi Dench has such a beautiful speaking voice and it's so perfect for Tolkien. Nothing jars me more than hearing an American accent attempting to read LOR, they're great at Raymond Chandler, but not our English literature - the clue's in the name....
Mate same here! I’m 52, read his works from the age of 11/12, read them each year, aswell as all Sherlock Holmes as well as tv shows and movies ( yes I’m probably “fun” at parties haha. I’m glad there is others out there like us, my children all have read his works, they aren’t as possessed with it as I am, but they are much loved. Cheers from Australia
I have to say, the shots in the trailer had much much better colour grading than the final film. I first noticed it back when I first saw DOS the gold was so dull in colour compared to the bright warm colour the treasure was in AUJ
How did i get here RU-vid autoplay?! Hehe If there's a recording of Tolkien saying Smaug, just loop through all the different ways folks have said it and end it with Tolkien.
I have never seen this before. I was only 3 years old when lord of the rings was announced. I bet my cousins and my dad and uncles were so excited to see it in theaters. But wouldn’t be released till 2001 2002 and 2003 . Filming began in 1999 2000 . I mean wow
This is an exceptional documentary. I can't wrap my head around how one man could create such a world. A poetic manifestation of his life experiences and the human condition. I have ADHD and reading for extended periods of time has always been difficult, but I feel so captivated to read through the LOTR and uncover all the tiny ways the book differed from what I remember from the films and video games I've played. A timeless gift
Happy Birthday to a man whose books, thought and imagination changed my life as a young person. I have never stopped reading him for the past 60 years, never stopped enjoying the beauty of his work and of those who have studied him.
Does anyone remember the promotional images that came out when this teaser did? There's one that I remember being particularly exciting, but I have not been able to find it anywhere. If my memory serves me, it was an image of the shadow of the Balrog overlooking the Fellowship as they were crossing the stone bridge, just before the confrontation that Gandalf has with it. It does not reveal the Balrog, which made it all the more enticing. It was probably the best teaser picture I have ever seen, and though I was not a LOTR fan at the time (2000), I remember that that picture alone got me started down the path. Any help would be much appreciated.
28.54 Gandalfs Narya, power to inspire courage and hope, beats the one ring domination. How do we know its Narya? Coz the jewel is red! Not nearly as "powerful" as Sauron's, but the subtle and tirelessness of that Ring in the face of evil ultimately plays a huge part in defeating it!
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 1 John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
When i first heard that Christopher Tolkien didn't like the movies i was like "what how could you not love those movies their heart and soul into those movies" but now i totally understand that #1 i was being a douche and #2 this is his father's world and no matter how good the movies could have been adpated it still wouldn't live up to he or his fathers vision RIP to both men incredibly intelligent and kind as a can see anyway
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