# Anyone interested in Lord of the Rings... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2000, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919 "2000-04-08T07:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/21 "2000-04-10T00:27:00Z")
The two best links are: [www.theonering.net](http://www.theonering.net)[www.lordoftherings.net](http://www.lordoftherings.net) And another one, I forget that one though. * * * [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/22 "2000-04-10T00:52:00Z")
I loved the books, and will reserve judgement on the movie until I’ve seen it. Thank you GuanoLad for those links. Anxiously awaiting another Tolkein fix, purplebear sits patiently by. * * * You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming. Og Mandino That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.\ ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/23 "2000-04-10T01:21:00Z")
that was one great trailer 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/24 "2000-04-10T02:43:00Z")
My reaction still holds. . . but I’ll probably read the reviews and revise it then. – Sylence * * * I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/25 "2000-04-10T03:12:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by AKAmame: > Semi-hijack, does anyone else remember the album based on LoTR by Bo Hansen? I always found it extraordinarily evocative of the book. I think of ents and get the thrumming footfalls in my head. Or does the fact that I heard it in the early 70’s mean my memory is clouded? It’s a great album, you can “hear” the fog on the barrow-downs. I wish it would come out on CD. My turntable is broken. ---
**Author:** ![Ophanim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8491ac/32.png) [@Ophanim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ophanim)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/26 "2000-04-10T05:18:00Z")
::YAWN:: Wake me when they make a movie adaptation of **Bored of the Rings**. * * * ## **Ophanim** Not Voted, \*\*Coolest, Dumbest, Happiest, Drunkest, Surliest, Gayest, Most Godly, or anything else! \*\* Damn you all to HELL! Where’s my side of FUN!? Kisses! Ophy ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/27 "2000-04-10T06:33:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by AKAmame: > **Rilcham - and for the rest of us bow fodder, that link would be…?** Oh, AKA…:::looks down sheepishly:::…I don’t know how to post links. ## Seriously, I don’t. I knew when I said that that I was doing a disservice by not posting the link. If someone could, pretty please, tell me how to post a link, I’ll do it ASAP. “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/28 "2000-04-10T06:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Asmodean: > \*\*that was one great trailer 🙂 \*\* Mm-HMM! Also, RTA, I would calm down as far as Arwen’s role being embellished. If the shot of her “armed and armored” that you saw was from the trailer that I saw, I should remind you that they are doing the principal photography for all three films at once. That is, they’re doing all the Rivendell scenes, from all three books, and then moving on to the Entwash, and so on. There’s so much CGI to add that the live action is only about 40% of the production. So the shot that you saw was probably from **King** , not Helm’s Deep from **Towers**. And whether anyone agrees or not, the hobbits look uncannily accurate. * * * “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/29 "2000-04-10T08:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by thirdwarning: > \*\* It’s a great album, you can “hear” the fog on the barrow-downs. I wish it would come out on CD. My turntable is broken. > \*\* It is out on CD, I just made a copy of it for my little brother (for his car CD-player). I’m not partial to this “progressive” music, but here’s a link to [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/music-glance/B000002R8K/104-6688735-9586000) if you’re interested. * * * _For once you must try to face the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts._ ---
**Author:** ![AKAmame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@AKAmame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AKAmame)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/30 "2000-04-10T09:30:00Z")
Thirdwarning, I recently got a CD of it (to my joy - my turntable hasn’t worked in yonks either). I think I bought it in the States, but I don’t have the foggiest where. However, it’s released by One Way /Silence Records, PO Box 6429 Albany NY 12206 and the catalogue number seems to be OW33654. Hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/31 "2000-04-10T15:30:00Z")
Not in the trailer, elsewhere. And it was at Helm’s Deep (i.e. during the filming of Helm’s Deep, on the set of Helm’s Deep). But she has absolutely no business swinging a sword anywhere in ROTK either - is that not so? … If they make her a member of the Company of the Ring I am going to puke. BTW They are doing all of the outdoors filming first, then moving inside massive sound stages for all of the interior shots. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/32 "2000-04-10T16:42:00Z")
I hope they do a better job than they did with the Hobbit in '78… * * * VB Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/33 "2000-04-13T20:44:00Z")
I hope this works… [http://www.speakeasy.org/~ohh/bakshi.htm.com](http://www.speakeasy.org/~ohh/bakshi.htm.com) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/34 "2000-04-13T20:45:00Z")
DOH! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/35 "2000-04-14T00:13:00Z")
I dunno, the impression that I get from the ads, etc, is that this version is going to be as good as a movie of LotR can possibly be, but that it still won’t be good enough. As to Arwen, I noticed that Eowyn isn’t on the cast lists… I smell a streamlining. And they did this because there were too FEW female characters? * * * “There are only two things that are infinite: The Universe, and human stupidity-- and I’m not sure about the Universe” –A. Einstein ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/36 "2000-04-14T01:50:00Z")
I really hope they don’t try to streamline Arwen into Eowyn’s role. Eowyn is one of my favorite characters. Her relationship with Eomer and Theoden is very important with regards to Wormtongues backstory (His rise and Eomer’s fall, and the reversal) as well as her slaying of the witchking and relationship with Faramir. ## Removing Eowyn is one of those things that will utterly ruin the movie to me, I have to say. I can understand and forgive the replacement of Glorifindil with Arwen at the crossing of the ford (One of the rumors) but the other is beyond the pale if it happens. \>\>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.\<\< —The dragon observes ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/37 "2000-04-14T02:59:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Her relationship with Eomer and Theoden is very important with regards to Wormtongues backstory (His rise and Eomer’s fall, and the reversal) Not really (and that is the sort of thing they assuredly WILL cut), but she is necessary to kill the Witch-King etc. I’m pretty sure Eowyn HAS been cast. It’s my understanding they are definitely cutting all of the Tom Bombadil - Barrow Downs stuff and supposedly a lot of the Birthday Party scene too. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919/38 "2000-04-14T05:22:00Z")
I don’t know LotR that well, a lot of the names get me confused and I can’t tell one person from another from them. But I believe originally they were hoping to cast Uma Thurman in the role of Eowyn, but she declined. Rest assured that, if the role hasn’t been cast yet, it’s because her scenes are yet to be scheduled for filming. There’s another 8 months of shooting to go, remember. * * * [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-interested-in-lord-of-the-rings/15919.md?page=1)