LOTR appreciation thread

>>85597309
Boromir

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Should Faramir be considered an honorary fellowship member

>>85597309
I think everyone can agree that Gandalf, Boromir, Aragorn and Sam are the highest tier of fellowship bros.

Fucked my knee big time, cant move for shit. Watched through all the Bonus Material for Fellowship before watching the movie twice with and without cast's commentary.

Starting with TT today

>>85597309
Aragorn in the movie
I haven't read the books in almost a decade but I remember enjoying Merry and Pippin with the ents a lot more in the book
Gandalf is best across both versions though.

>>85597537
I thought I was the only person autistic enough to watch a movie, and then watch it again immediately after with the commentary on. Kudos anon

>>85597537
>cast's commentary
I thought both the directors/writers and the art guys commentary was more interesting/insightful, you should give that a try.

>>85597309
movie: Aragorn
book: frodo/sam; i'm not sure

>>85597645
I probably will, but there was so much footage with the art guys and peej and not many scenes with the cast so I went for the gang

>>85597309
Gimli is based. Dwarves are the master race desu

>>85597519
gimli tho

I think the movies did a bad job redeeming boromirs character. He was a great honourable man from a noble family, a war hero and leader. In the movies normie girls are like "ohhhhhhh he's the bad guy!!!"

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Name a better fictional wizard.

>>85598329
>normie girls
well, normie girls wouldn't get book boromir either.

>>85598329
Was about to post this. He did somewhat redeem himself but in no way enough. Glad Jackson realized this and redeemed him more with the Osgiliath scene in two towers.

He never wanted the ring for himself or gondor just for power, but to stop his soldiers dying every day and save his country from certain doom. Truly the GOAT fellowship character.

>>85598448
Normie girls don't even get the movie

>>85598409
magneto

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>>85597362

patrician taste

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Riders of Rohan! Oaths you have taken. Now fulfill them all, for Lord and Land!

>>85598981
are the lotr movies something women will never understand?

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>>85597407
Maybe, not sure because he only accompanied Frodo and Sam.
What about her? She saved Frodo and fought back the Nazgûl. Is Arwen, dare I say it.. /ourgal/?

>>85598409
As oppose to non-fictional wizards?

>>85600371
Rasputin?

>>85600371
There are wizards in myth, which isn't the same as fiction.

>>85600474
non-fiction wizard detected

>>85598409
Gandalf the Grey

>>85598193
>le funny meme dwarf
'no'

>>85600242
She would be fine if she hadn't replaced Glorfindel. The scene where Glorfindel saves Frodo from the Nazgul is so much better than what they gave us in the movie.

Best trilogy after Dollar trilogy
am i rite ?

>tfw indie cinema in my city is playing a LotR marathon next month and none of my friends want to go

>>85600880
it works fine in the context of the movie, and gives her something to do and keeps the massive cast a bit tighter.

it would also lead to moviegoers questioning why this OP as fuck elf didn't go with the fellowship.

>>85597362
my man

>>85597362
This

I will never not feel emotional during his death

>>85597309
Faramir

>>85597537
Did the same once I bought the extended trilogy some days ago

Was cool to hear Orlando talk about his childhood memories concerning the books, saying that even If it isn't 100% faithful to the books the movies are great adaptations. Plus he was the only one to comment when his character wasn't on screen

Chrostopher Lee was such a nerd about all the Tolkien works, talking about detail and characters who aren't in the movies. Just great

Ian tho sounds like a pretentious dick

>>85601254
I think it takes away from Arwen's character, having her do that kind of stuff.

Being the image of Luthien reborn and all the shit about lofty and beautiful she is is really reduced by having her run around in the fields. Not that they would have included anything about how important the relationship with Arwen and Aragorn is with respect to their ancestry, but her characterization in the movie takes some of that away from people who know, and they didn't have to do that.

>>85598409
harry potter duhhh
how can you forget harry potter it's 10 times better than lotr you weeb

>>85601254
speaking of which, why didn't glorfindel go? over legolas at least, if not in addition to him, the dood 1v1'd a fuckin balrog in his first life, even if it killed him, it's not like he was doing shit elsewhere like elrohir and elladan

>tfw recently found out gandalf was played by a fag

Fucking pissed as he was one of my favorites too.

>>85600242
Well faramir was originally going to goto rivendell and be in the fellowship

That plus with the way he helps out later he just feels like a member to me

>>85601743
because he didn't volunteer.

>>85601743
I don't know, I started thinking about it as soon as I posted.

maybe being as powerful as he is, and the whole having lived in the light of the trees and glowing like the fucking sun to anything in the wraith world would have hampered the whole secrecy thing.

obviously the real reason is he's just too fucking hardcore.

>>85601743
Glorfindel and another rivendell elf were intended to join but Gandalf suggested that friendship will serve better the fellowship purpose so Merry and Pippin were added
Legolas is the son of thranduil, a sylvan prince and an excellent scout

>>85601883
poor baby

>>85601883
oh no a gay man, my sexuality is attacked, better stay in that closet to feel safe

>>85600242
>Is x, dare I say it.. /ourgal/?
please dont ever type those words on my board again.

>>85602026
Indeed, any passing Nazgul would have spotted Glorfindel immediately. The real question is what the hell else he was doing at the time.

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>>85602140
In the bfme 2 campaign he was a playable hero, traveling and fighting in the north Regions during the War of the Ring

>>85600371
Me?

>>85602426
Can you buy those games digitally yet

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>>85600242
/ourgal/ will always be Galadriel.

>>85597537
gonna break my leg so I can do this

You think elijah loved filming the series so much because it helped him get over his sexual abuse?

>>85603171
Dont think so, copies of IT are fucking expensive nowadays.

>>85598517
He pretty much says that in the first movie as well.

>>85601883
>Fucking pissed as he was one of my favorites too.

Same here but only when he fagged out for some pride parade posters. Gay or not its below him

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>>85598409

>Ergo The Magnificent, short in stature, tall in power,narrow of purpose, and wide of vision.
>Gandalf can't even turn into a tiger

>>85603317
Jesus, Base Game is 60 eurodollars on German eBay, Expansion around the same. Used condition of course.

>>85597362
fpbp

>>85599808
you got it backward

>>85597645
Art guys is the only one I have left, I've listened to the other three. My gf is leaving for a week, might try to fit it in.

>>85603171
>>85603317
>>85603429
>mfw has battle for middle earth 1, 2 and the witch king
>mfw bought it for 10 quid or something 10 years ago.
>mfw I just got it to work
Life is good

>>85603683
lost my copy of 1, still have 2 could never find witch king though

>>85603778
Sucks. I've got the anthology box, was hidden away for a decade or something, forgot I even had it. Took me a whole day to get it to work.

>>85603835
>tfw its not even on GoG

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my favorite isnt in the fellowship---

>>85600371
>>r9k

Fellowship > RotK > Two Towers

>>85601159
Your friends are trash and you don't need them, the Fellowship are your true bros.

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>>85601704
Anon pls

>>85597362
every 15 year old's answer

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>book Faramir is a good man who serves fine food to Frodo and Sam while laughing about how he doesn't want the Ring at all because he's just some guy out in the woods with his bros
>film Faramir is an edgy shit with his bros out in the woods

>>85597645
>>85597537
Is their decent torrent with the commentary?

>>85605809


actually the second makes sense, i'd understand he became an edgy cunt after his dad being an cunt towards him and the war going on.

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Is grima /tv/?

>>85605809
keeping him the same as the book, rejecting the ring so easily would undercut the threat of it a little. I don't particularly like the detour to osgiliath, but I see why they did it for the sake of the movie.

same thing when people with autism think tom bombadil should have been in the movie, he completely trivialises the ring and it's power.

>>85607101


i just wanted to see if they made his wife a qt

Theodon was based

He was also easily the best thing about WoW then they killed him

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>>85607150
Here's what she and Tom Bombadil looked like in the old tcg that used pictures from the trilogy for the card arts

>>85607412

not bad desu

>>85607101
The problem is that the movies never really explained as the books did about how the ring worked. It gave corrupting and addictive power as well as false promises by using that which you love the most.

This is why Sam could so easily resist the Ring, because it promised that with its powers he could turn all of Mordor into a beautiful and bountiful garden, but he only wanted to go back to his own garden so the Ring couldn't tempt him.

It was the same for Faramir. What the ring tried to promise and tempt him with was more than he wanted or perhaps something else entirely, so he laughed and resisted it.

>>85597309
legolas was my favourite when the films came out
so, legolas

>>85607943
>>85607101
He still rejected it pretty quickly, they just needed to draw out their journey a bit, I never saw why people got so buttblasted

Plus David wenham is based

>its an ent scene

>it's an arwen scene

>>85603393
>Gandalf can't even turn into a tiger

Not being a furfag is a plus, not a detriment

>>85601661
It's been ages since I've watched the commentaries, but I remember Ian tipping his fedora hard and noting how the Shire didn't have any Churches as if it were a good thing. It's like he was oblivious to the fact that Tolkien was a hard-nosed Catholic.

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>>85607275
If you want some more Bernard Hill medievalkino, watch Wolf Hall

lotr had such great characters
why do todays movies have such awfully written characters ?

>>85610123
They aren't based on books

>>85597537
is the trilogy box set worth getting?

>>85604178
He had the second best outfit after Gandalf

>>85597537
>Liv Tyler is so angelical that even during the interviews she sounds outworldly
Why can't I have an elffu?

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>>85600035
no, they never will. I watched them with my gf and had to pause every five minutes to explain something. Every. Five. Minutes.

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>>85611286

Elves are a proud and noble race, not waifus.

>>85600035
for years I thought my mum was actually ok because she really likes LOTR and watches them with my dad a couple times a year.

but then the hobbit movies came out and she likes those too, fucking dumb roastie.

>>85611286
Because of the Jews.

>>85611614
is she retarded

>>85612161
you clearly dont know how silly most girls are

>>85612224
There's silly then straight up stupid

>>85603384
This tbqh.

Aragorns tax advisor

>>85612780
Fuck gurm

>>85600371
will become one in a couple of years