LotR memories

[sprunkner]

With the Hobbit coming up, I started writing a little bit of a collection of memories about reading Lord of the Rings and seeing the Peter Jackson movies. And now, in the mode of all children of the 80s, I want even more nostalgia. So tell me your stories of reading or encountering LotR. Here's some of mine (I'm a little too verbose at times, so I cut some)

There’s a window of age in Generation Y, where, too young to know better, we fell in love with the animated adaptations of Lord of the Rings. I remember being entranced by the rotoscoped green glowing Orcs shedding hobbit-sized-servings of black blood in Ralph Bakshi’s version, the ring-nosed Treebeard and the Viking Boromir. Oh, and that crowning glory, the singing Orcs in the Rankin/Bass Return of the King.

Where there’s a whip, there’s a way!
Where there’s a whip, there’s a way!

We don’t wanna go to war today
But the Lord of the Lash says nay, nay, nay!
We’re gonna march all day, all day all day
Where there’s a whip, there’s a way.

My whole relationship between the good books and the lackluster movies got turned on its curly hobbit-head when my preteen brothers, fresh off watching Peter Jackson’s Fellowship fourteen times, demanded I read the books to them. We did them all on a road trip from our home in the Mojave Desert to Illinois. (Northern Utah became Rohan, Iowa became the Shire and Veil Pass the Misty Mountains. When we returned home, we realized with horror that we lived in Mordor.)

[Brendocon]

Haha. You're a goblin.

I think I only ever saw the animated version once... and that was on a grotty tape that I don't think had all of it on. :/

I spent last weekend watching the super extended uber DVDs of the Jackson films.

My brain exhausted and confused.

So I will ask my questions of THE SPRUNKINATOR. As he has seen fit to do this now.

These likely make more sense in book context, but in the films alone...

When Bilbo first uses his ring, Gandalf seemingly has no knowledge of what the Hobbit possesses. But within [screen] seconds, he's consulted some books, looked across the horizon and knows absolutely everything (that Bilbo got it from Gollum, whom he didn't kill out of pity, that Gollum used to be called Smeagol, that Gollum had been captured and tortured and given the words Baggins and Shire).

My question is thus: Say whatnow? I know Gandalf's magic johnson and all that malarkey. But what? Or did my brain twitch off at a vital second?

I have more questions, but will not hijack the topic further yet.

[Impactor returns 2.0]

I think gandalf is alredy aware of what the rings are, and what power they have, hes surprised a hobbit has the last of them tho.

Not sure what he gos and reads up on tho, does it say 'gollum was here with a ring' ?

[sprunkner]

In the books, the gap where Gandalf wanders off to study the history of the Ring is something like twenty years--he and Aragorn hunt down Gollum and find out the Sméagol story, he studies lots of books and Denethor gets mad at him, blah blah blah.

The Bilbo-not-killing-him-out-of-pity thing was from The Hobbit.

For that matter, (this is something I've never understood why they didn't do it in the movie) in the books Frodo is left with serious mental damage by the Ring... he keeps getting sick and grabbing for something around his neck. I thought if Jackson had made it much clearer that Frodo was still seriously messed up, he would have been able to justify the Gray Havens. As it was, that movie was meant to end right after they destroyed the Ring.

[Ultrasabre]

I'm a huge fan indeed! I have all 3 extended editions! I was sad the year after they released LOTR:ROTK. .THere was no LOTR to look forward to.. /cry

I am lookin forward to the hobbit! should be good! I hope to see some dragons and more crazy magic!

On an unreleate note, BLizzard did announce they are workin on a World of Warcraft movie which has the story and lore to be just as epic as LOTR if not more!!

[Yaya]

"I SMELL YOU!"-Smaug.

If the guy who did the voice of Smaug in that cartoon is alive, then they need not look any further.

Loved that cartoon, and the "Where there's a whip" song.

[sprunkner]

You know, I still think the Hobbit cartoon holds up. It was funny and the animation was rich in detail and the story fit in almost all of the book
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