# Enough with the Lord of the Rings, already **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 3, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479 "2003-01-03T20:16:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/1 "2003-01-03T20:16:58Z")
Ugh. Is anyone else sick of hearing about it? I must be in the minority of people who have no interest in this topic whatsoever. Seems like 90% of the Cafe Society threads are about it. I am eagerly awaiting the time when the hype is over. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/2 "2003-01-03T20:19:52Z")
Not going to happen for at least another year, until well after the third movie is out. Then you’ll probably get a breather for a year or two until Peter Jackson inevitably decides he wants to do the Hobbit, too, and then there’ll be a whole 'nother hoopla to torment you. In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz, “Ha-ha!” ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/3 "2003-01-03T20:22:07Z")
Yeah, I’m sick of that Lord of the Rings. In fact, I saw a much better movie last weekend. I don’t remember what it was called, but it was about these Two Towers and there was a wizard and these elves with bows and arrows and the trees walked and talked like people and it was really cool. Has anybody else seen this movie? I think I’ll start a thread about it in Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/4 "2003-01-03T20:22:58Z")
And so, the battle against LOTR has been won. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/5 "2003-01-03T20:23:25Z")
Wait, wait, wait…you’re looking on the _internet_ for people to shut up about LotR? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/6 "2003-01-03T20:24:38Z")
And does anyone else find it ironic that yet another thread about LotR has been opened in order to decry LotR threads? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/7 "2003-01-03T20:29:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > **Then you’ll probably get a breather for a year or two until Peter Jackson inevitably decides he wants to do the Hobbit, too, and then there’ll be a whole 'nother hoopla to torment you.** There may not be as much of a breather as **Indygrrl** hopes for… A friend of a friend of mine has _supposedly_ just been hired to do design work for a live-action version of _The Hobbit_, and his wife is doing some leatherworking for same. Very few details yet, but Jackson is supposedly attached to it somehow. If it’s true, I couldn’t be happier, though I’m sure it’ll make _some_ people tear their hair out in frustration. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/8 "2003-01-03T20:30:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Carnage \* > \*\*And does anyone else find it ironic that yet another thread about LotR has been opened in order to decry LotR threads? 🙂 \*\* I’m waiting for the pit thread bitching about all the pit threads bitching about all the LOTR threads. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/9 "2003-01-03T20:31:13Z")
My hobbit’s breath smells like hobbitfood. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/10 "2003-01-03T20:46:14Z")
When come back, bring halflings filled with pie. [sub]OMG I am SO going to hell for that one[/sub] Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/11 "2003-01-03T20:48:03Z")
Or pies filled with halfling. Mmmm… meat pies. ---
**Author:** ![Realhoops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/12 "2003-01-03T20:54:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Indygrrl \* > \*\*Ugh. Is anyone else sick of hearing about it? I must be in the minority of people who have no interest in this topic whatsoever. Seems like 90% of the Cafe Society threads are about it. I am eagerly awaiting the time when the hype is over. \*\* Well … perhaps a few of the people who posted in [this Pit Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=152279) or perhaps a few of the people who posted in [this Pit Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151510) might be sick of hearing about it. 'Course I think a lot of them have learned to just not open the threads about topics they are sick of hearing about … ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/13 "2003-01-03T20:57:17Z")
And thereupon a Thread was thrust into the Pit with a great condemnation, and at the top of it there sulked the OP, an emissary of the Dark Lord. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/14 "2003-01-03T21:03:57Z")
Oh, pardon me, I thought this was a forum for rants. ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/15 "2003-01-03T21:09:01Z")
Oh pardon me, I thought CS was the forum for discussing books/movies. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/16 "2003-01-03T21:11:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mtgman \* > \*\*When come back, bring halflings filled with pie. > > [sub]OMG I am SO going to hell for that one[/sub] > \*\* I don’t see why. Isn’t “filled with pie” a hobbit’s natural state? ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/17 "2003-01-03T21:12:44Z")
So you have a problem with me expressing mild annoyance at LOTR being everywhere? If you read my post you’d see that I wasn’t just talking about the forums. Ahh, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/18 "2003-01-03T21:24:28Z")
No, I wouldn’t, because it was four sentences long and mentioned CS in one of the four. Nowhere in your OP did you mention a single place that you didn’t want LotR to appear besides CS. You’re right. The pit is a place for rants. “I don’t like it” is a 2/100 on the rantometer. You could at least state why you don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/19 "2003-01-03T21:32:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Indygrrl \* > \*\*So you have a problem with me expressing mild annoyance at LOTR being everywhere? If you read my post you’d see that I wasn’t just talking about the forums. Ahh, nevermind. \*\* I don’t have problem, I just thought it was an opportune time to insert you into a scene from LotR. I’d say that the hype is honestly a bit much, but the film itself if fairly good. ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479/20 "2003-01-03T21:36:37Z")
Never ever EVER going to happen Indygrrl. Sometime in the future, after endless speculation, we are going to have a balding, even more paunchier Peter Jackson say “yes there will be a “Hobbit” movie” and then the hype will regurg as he has decided to span it into 3 movies. Long lines will start standing outside movie theaters a full year before the beginning, arcades and comic books stores will go out of business from lack of fanboys, and Aintitcool News will devote endless hours to dissecting every bit of table scraps that fall down to them. The teaser will premiere, millions will buy tickets to see Steven Seagal’s latest shitfest (teaming up with Jean Claude Van Damme this time) to just catch the teaser/trailer then leave. Seagal, oblivious, will announce he will doing 900 other films since this one showed he still has drawing power. Toys R Us and Walmart’s everywhere will be looted as everyone tries to get the Bilbo in the BLUE/OFF WHITE 3rd stage packaging. Thousands will be spent on Ebay for “actual dirt from the set”. Taco Bell, will change its name to Hobbit Bell to curry favor with the witless. Worry will surface as Jackson announces that he has decided to go all Digital and eliminate the need for New Zealand. But since he is god to all fanboys, he will be defended to the life in flamewars around the net. Casts will be finally laid out and more people worry that some young turd of a actor has replaced the current running favorite among others fro the role of Bilbo. Jackson will assure them that he ‘is the right choice’. Other rumors float about. Jackson has decided to write in the backstory of the anti-hero Wormtounge due to repeated requests to know more about him from fanboys. A young Legolas will show up in a cameo, and the One Ring will actually resonate power based on Tichloridian in your blood stream. Rising descension will begin but its small comparing to the grandios hype that has reached an epic scale. Some say this will be the “end all be all” of moviedom. Finally the day arrives and millions take off work to go see the first portion “Episode 1: The Shire Menace”. The sound of crashing bullshit everywhere will resound as people wonder why mystical parts of the Lord of the Rings have been laid bare by stupid reasoning and dumb ideas. Why the hell Gandalf has become a completely CGI character with a sidekick of a wisecracking wind spirit who makes Scrappy Doo bareable, and who gave the role of Gollum to an aged Tom Cruise in Grey Pound Makeup. Fanboys everywhere will scream in anquish as their beloved trilogy now resounds to a long running commercial to buy more “JacksonFilm” products and the rest of the public will once again smugly put them in their place, saying they ‘told us’ that ‘true film’ does not include fantasy or sci fi, all the while going gaga over the teamup of Jlo and her seventh husband, Carrot Top, in a brand new ‘sitcom in a movie’ mountain of shit, That Girl: The Movie. Deja Vu… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-lord-of-the-rings-already/146479.md?page=2)