Lord of the Rings

[Tungro]

Speaking of Which,

Am I the only one who knows this exists?

(You can find the full movie in parts on dailymotion)

[Tungro]

Or even this?

[Jukka the Sling]

I've seen those!  (Don't know if I *technically* finished watching them since I tuned out from time to time while the siblings watched... but yeah.)

(By the way, double-posting is frowned upon in boards that count posts.  Just so you know in future. )

[The Skarzs]

Yes.
What do you think it's going to be about? Are they going to have him tell some of his stuff, and "illustrate" them, while at the same time showing his life?

[Jukka the Sling]

Good question.  The IMDb synopsis says: "Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school."  I'm afraid they're going to try and draw too many false one-to-one comparisons between his life and his works, though.  *sigh*  Oh well, I'm still more excited for this than Endgame right now.

I keep wishing that the movie will turn out to be like The Man Who Invented Christmas and have Tolkien's characters being played by real people and talking to him.  Oh my word, I'd SCREAM.  I'm giddy just thinking about how cool that'd be.  Silmarillion characters on the big screen?!  Shut up and take my money!!!

What would be more possible, imo, is there being fantasy sequences as he writes, showing how his stories go.  Which would still be flipping awesome 'cause we might possibly get glimpses of Silm characters.

Whatever happens, I'm gonna be freaking out over the Silmarillion references that'll exist.  Maybe this movie will get more people to read it.

[The Shadow of Korriban]

You're weird yo.

[Cornflower MM]

You know, I still have yet to get through Silmarillion successfully.

[The Skarzs]

It can take some doing.

I would really want to see some Silmarillion characters too.

[Delthion]

You know, I still have yet to get through Silmarillion successfully.

When you do (because failure in this aspect is not an option. ) You will find yourself dissatisfied with the rest of the books, and wanting to read the Silmarillion over and over again. At least, that's what I did.

[Grond]

yeah its Tolkien's best work in my opinion... 

[The Skarzs]

Technically the book itself wasn't done by Tolkien, but all the stories were. They were compiled by his son, I believe.

[Tungro]

You know, I still have yet to get through Silmarillion successfully.

I started the Fellowship of the Rings years ago and only got as far a when they hobbits reached the forbidding hedge...

[The Shadow of Korriban]

I only read the Hobbit for school.

[The Skarzs]

I started the Fellowship of the Rings years ago and only got as far a when they hobbits reached the forbidding hedge...

Unacceptable.

[Tungro]

Well all my brother have read them all and filled me in.
(Loved farmer Magot)