Post Lord of the Rings wallpapers here!

Ok that's all of mine, I'd love some more for my collection.
Though next time OP, you should post more than one image.

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Wish there was more going on in this thread.

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Happy Trails

I need a wp with the Trees of Valinor. I just need it.

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>>6720726
Higher resolution.

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>>6720758
This thread needs more Gandalf x Balrog

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>>6726644

>>6720730
>>6720733
what cities are these two supposed to be?

>>6722126

more of bilbo pls

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screenshot i took in dunland from LoTRO

>>6728599

That scene with the two sentinels always get me because it plays into the motif of antiquity.

You think "why would two huge fucking statues be guarding a passage that rarely sees use?"

Then Aragon explains to the Hobbits that they're kings of old with a sad look of nostalgia on his face.

And you realize that the whole quest that the Fellowship is undergoing is about destroying what was left of the "old" thinking, and bringing Middle Earth into a new age. There are all these examples of antiquated cultures in the movies (haven't read the books in a while). Helm's Deep, the Mines of Moria. Fuck. In a way, Sauromon is just left over from a time of mysticism, and the old ways are being replaced by new ways, for what we hope is better, but possibly not. Much like the modern Western World.

>>6730064

*Sauron

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>>6730510
We really need a Silmarillion movie. The first time they show Gondolin would be amazing.

>>6720729
>>6720730
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>>6730514

Do the Ted Naismith painting come from a art book? Someone should scan them in higher res. 1280x800 is just a tease.

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FUCK now I have to read the books again. the atmosphere of tolkien's books is imho unmatched in literature or any other media for that matter.

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Does anyone have any more nazgul?

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*swoon*

>>6721641
is this form LotR?
or form another tolkien book?

>>6732557
It's from the Silmarillion, specifically, the duel between Fingolfin and Morgoth.

>>6730064
Those that you say, really touch my heart

>>6730064
wow man, I felt it too when I saw the statues in the fellowship but man did you put that well. What a great trilogy

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Not really sure about this one though.

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>>6736977

It's definitely not the Argonath, that's for true.

>>6736995
Ye, I don't know why I saved it as that. Think it said so in the source.

>>6736973
Don't read the filename if you haven't read the book. Sorry lads.

>>6723863
thanks bud

>>6730517
There is something about this pic

>>6732557
It's from the Silmarillion. A bit encyclopedic at first but it doesn't last and it's great. It explains a lot of stuff about Tolkien universe and explains a lot of stuff that you meet in Lotr.

>>6730065
Saron was the evil ancient king who held the one ring of power. You may know him in the movies as the giant firey eyeball.

Anon is referring to Sarumon, who is the wizard that Saron manipulated into working against the peace of middle earth. Sarumon used to be the head of wizards, Sarumon the White, but when he went to Saron Gandalf became White.

Sarumon represents the *old mysticism anon is referring to.

>>6730851
is this an accurate map? Does middle earth and the undying lands actually connect?

the elves initially crossed through the fields of ice on their first journey to Valinor.

>>6730813
I totally agree, but if anyone here hasn't read the Kingkiller Chronicles, It is imo one of the best fantasy series, especially for modern literature.

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>>6743330
It used to be correct, up until The Silmarillion. >>6743335 is half right. Elves initially crossed the ocean to reach Valinor, but when the rebelling Noldor returned to Middle Earth, many of them crossed the ice on foot.

However, as of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, nearly everything north of the Blue Mountains of Middle Earth is underwater, including the land connecting the two continents.

I really appreciate this thread.

I like the movies, but ever since they came out it's hard to find fan art- all you find is screen caps.

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>>6720653

>>6732557
>>6721641
I know that passage by heart:

Now news came to Hithlum that Dorthonion was lost and the sons of Finarfin overthrown and that the sons of Feanor were driven from their lands.
Then Fingolfin beheld - as it seemed to him - the utter ruin of the Noldor, and the defeat beyond redress of all their houses;
and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him.
He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Orome himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.
Thus he came alone to Angband's gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth in single combnat. And Morgoth came.

>>6728035
The first one is either Tirion upon Tuna, located in a valley in the circling mountains that let the elves of aman at once see the light of the trees and their origin in the east.

The bottom one is probably Rivendell.

>>6742878
I'm fairly certain he meant that Sauron is a holdover from the first age and the elder days, the istari didnt even arrive in middle earth until the lateish third age.

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>>6736975
does anybody have a legible / HD one of these ?

>>6730450
I've always adored this image, both by itself like that, and as the cover for The Hobbit.

>>6745121
>the istari didnt even arrive in middle earth until the lateish third age.

Early third age, actually. The third age lasted for like 3000 years or so and the the Istari arrived around 1000 years after it began.

>>6730064
So in a way, you could accuse everyone in the Fellowship of being fedora tippers.

>>6730064

Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't, but it feels a bit too pessimistic to me. After all, things end with the Return of the King. Is that not a renewal of the old ways? Aragorn has the blood of numenor, yes?

Or maybe you're right. The elves are leaving after all. I don't know.

>>6745121

This. I made both of theses posts.

>>6730064
>>6730065

>>6730450
Damn, nice to see this one actually scaled up.

>>6730522
>We really need a Silmarillion movie. The first time they show Gondolin would be amazing.
Fuck no man, did you not see how Jackson's The Hobbit butchered Tolkien's work?
Just leave the franchise alone, Hollywood. Or alternatively, try something non-canon, like making up some story set in the second age or whatever. Just don't touch the Simarillion, it isn't even suitable for a movie much like the Bible isn't.

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>>6745140
Could only find this one when looking it up now.

>>6743517
Why was the north all under water? I am haven't read that in any of the books yet.

>>6747463
Things got crazy before Morgoth was finally ejected into the void.

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>>6746462

While yes it is the return of a king with the blood of Numenor flowing through him, but that king is a man. Like you said, the elves are leaving. The future belongs to men to make for themselves. In many ways though, it isn't really a positive or negative ending. One of the themes that runs through Tolkien's work are that time passes, and things change, and nothing ever seems as good as it was but in turn those times never seemed as good as things that came before them. It's the story of the human condition. But there is no going back.

Epic thread, thank you all!

>>6720653
this thread needs more pictures from the movies, they had some truly beautiful stills, speaking of which, does any one have the still of Gandalf sitting in an alley in Minas Tirith, after Faramir went on the suicide mission to Osgiliath, in 1920x1080? its by far my favorite pic from the movies, the serenity, the vunerability, the lighting.. this pic has it all, and makes me instantly think of all movies. brings a tear to my eye every time

>>6730507
This gave me feels.

I wish I had something to post in return.

>>6746738
80 kinds of this.

>>6750855
movies are cancer to art for much of these

i for one am glad that the thread is full of book-only inspired art.

>>6745115
I didn't think Tirion was directly on the shore?

I was going to guess Nevrast or the havens of the Teleri.

>>6745112
Great quote, props to you.

If you'd like another, I highly recommend looking up the quote about the death of Rog in the fall of Gondolin, Book of Lost Tales II. That story literally makes going through those 2 book worth it.

>>6739501
Fuck man, if only you didnt say it. I got the book coming my way in the mail.

Then again, I can't be mad for a spoiler that's so old.

>>6754214
Sorry about that. I know how easy it is to read beyond the spoiler warnings; have done so too many times with Malaz.

Happy reading. Illustrated by Alan Lee version?

>>6746738
This. We can imagine it could be perfect but it'd have to be stretched out into like maybe 10 movies and the first like two would be relatively slow paced just setting up the world for the rest like the book. That is unless they just cut through the creation of Arda and just skipped straight to Morgoth rising to power which would upset Tolkien fans.

The LotR films may have been an okay balance of staying true to the story and presenting it for the general masses but there's no way to achieve that with a story as epic as The Silmarillion.

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>>6754469
Worse things have happened.

Yes Alan Lee version, it's probably half the reason I bought it. Can't fucking wait.

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>>6750855
Quick and dirty screenshot for you. Can't do anything better for you at the moment.

>>6732554

uhg the armor in these movies was so awesome

>>6723858
battle of helm's deep

Lot of great stuff in this thread.

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Far over
The Misty Mountains cold
To dungeons deep
And caverns old

>>6761307
Uh, that shot annoys me too hard. Have I just missed something?
>Lonely Mountain is to the East
>they flew with the Eagles for a long ass time
>sun is still shining from the North-East
>which means it's dawn and pretty close to Midsummer yet Durin's Day is at the end of Autumn

>>6754214
Old indeed since the story is based around Kullervo from the Finnish epic Kalevala, first edition was published in 1835.

>>6761729
you must be fun at parties

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>>6730851
>>6736967

These are not how Tolkien envisioned the world map. You should read The Atlas of Middle Earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad. Or at least read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/1khgtf/on_the_subject_of_maps_good_and_bad/

>>6730522
no we absolutely do not, if you've ever read the silmarrillion you would know that it does not fit the format of a hollywood movie, and hollywood would be the only place to drum up the funds that it deserves, but if a studio was pumping that kind of money into the project, they would demand a massive hand in the creative process, which would butcher the movie, and any vision the director and production team might have had. We got lucky with the LotR trilogy, but damn w e drew snakeeyes with the Hobbit trilogies, which really only had some impressive battles going for it and that's it. So no, we do not need a silmarillion movie. if anything, like >>6746738 said, an out of canon movie would be the best way to go, but even then, I would rather leave the franchise untouched. I want the rights to the Silmarillion to stay in the Tolkien family, damn it.

>>6762657
You'd be surprised.
>>6762902
Think I have a similar book, will have to check out a bit later today.

>>6761307
So I've decided what I'm gonna do now.
So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains
Where the spirits go now,
Over the hills where the spirits fly, ooh.
I really don't know.

Over the summer, I watched the two towers (after a few years), with a live orchestra in Seattle. This brought back all the stuff I felt. Would recommend going to one of these shows if you live in a big city where this happens.

>>6766252
Fellowship, not Towers, my bad

>>6754119
Now that you mention it is probably Tol Eressea but at the same time it seems kinda small for that. On the other hand the light pouring through the gap yells first age tirion

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>>6725475

> Elves... soviet elves...

>>6763504
Thanks anon. You postet this one before I could even ask for it!

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not exactly lotr, but one of my favorite moments on the silmarillion

>>6742878
>Sarumon
>mon
Get that jamaica wizard out of here.

>>6730064
Always reminded me of 'Ozymandias' by Percy Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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>>6746738
I feel as though the only way you could do it would be in some sort of serial format, like how GoT did for the ASOIAF books.

That could deal with the huge span of time that it covers, but it might have trouble with some of the bits that need the most detail, like Beren and Luthien or Turin/the Fall of Gondolin.

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>>6730450
I might be wrong, but I think this is one of the original illustrations by Ingahild Grathmer, a.k.a the queen of Denmark

>>6759396
Nope.

Possibly the Battle of Nargothrond or Belegost, but there weren't siege towers or trolls at Helm's Deep. Saruman had no control over the Olog-hai.

They might be able to do the Simarillion if they made it animated, maybe did it in a similar way as the animatrix, a bunch of stories combined into several animated features

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Not the best resolution I don't think. But Turin's story is one of my absolute favorites. And damn I've seen quite a few Tolkien threads but this one is so good I'm going to have to go reread some of the books.

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There was so much depth but it wasn't just building a fantastical world just to build a fantastical world. Everything added to the world and shaped the characters in different ways. Like once I read the Silmarillion then went back to watch the extended cut movies, I realized why Elrond had such disdain for Numenor. Tolkien has accomplished something I don't think any other writer will for a good long while and I'm sad he didn't get the chance to do more before he passed away.

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>>6730844
>>6732536
I fucking love the nazgul, reminds me of Ordinary Men by Robert Browning

>>6746738
i feel like you could do it. i would actually watch a a lot of different stories in a single movie about the beginning and so on.
>another trilogy
and i think peter jackson, given the time could do a really good job. he was pretty rushed on the hobbit and worried too much about the 3d which he'll will hopefully never do again. not to mention the studio forcing him to stretch it out into 3 movies instead of 2 like he wanted.

>>6736977
I can't think of anything described like that, but I'd like to say it looks like something the Númenoreans might have built.

>>6751140
what's the story here? is that shelob?
guessing this is silmarillion/other story stuff

>>6778677
Ungoliant.

>>6761729
Well I'm really bad with sun positions and shit but if I get what you're saying right, your problem is with the timeline?

According to the books, they left Rivendell very soon after midsummer (or on midsummer? man I need to re-read a lot of shit), then went up the mountain which presumably took a few days, got caught up in the golbin caves and got out in about 1 or 2 days, in the evening they were ambushed by the goblins again and saved by the eagles. So yes, this shot does take place less than a couple of weeks after midsummer.

They spent some time at Beorn's and in Mirkwood, a bunch more time sitting imprisoned by the wood-elves, some more time partying in Laketown, and then arrived at Erebor somewhere around the end of summer / beginning of autumn IIRC. Then they spent ages searching for the door, moved camp several times, finally found it, spent more time trying to figure out how to unlock it, and finally Durin's Day came.

If I remember the movies correctly they showed everyone going up to the mountain, immediately spotting the horribly poorly hidden stairs to the door, climbing up, beating their heads against the door for a few minutes then giving up ang getting ready to head back home. That's utter BS.

>>6780078
I messed up a bit, somehow thought Durin's Day was about the time they were in Rivendell and did the map reading.

Anyway, hey have to be West or North-West of the Lonely Mountain for that shot to make sense, unless the Sun rises roughly North-North-East. Don't you think?

>>6736995
>>6776622
Found it: Sentinel Bay by Sarel Theron.

>>6766252
Oh man, that'd be amazing.

>>6780164
Well, like I said, I'm bad at sun positions, so I have no idea.

>>6771319
I we could have a peter jacskon free take on it i would be in. My idea is putting it in western animation style ala the first animated LOTR movie. Only good! What do you think?

>>6780237

Absolutely was. It is overwhelming, and a kid did the vocals towards the end, and everyone cheered.

Funny thing, I was scrolling through the thread and forgot I'd commented about this.

>>6756513
Melkor didn't create those creatures. The idea that evil cannot create, only corrupt, is kind of a central theme in the Silmarillion. Orcs are corrupted elves and trolls are at least implied to be corrupted ents. I can't remember where dragons came from. Weren't they spawned from the otherworldly horrors from the void, or something, like spiders?

>>6787088
The worms were an imitation of the great eagles... I don't remember anything about their origins being specified other than Morgoth having made them. Some of them had wings some did not. So likely a combination of snakes and other stuff.

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>>6787088
It's from a CGPgrey video where he explains just that, though the graph didn't really depict it very well.

>>6730064
I might help to know that Tolkein viewed the great evils of modern society as industrialization destroying the English countryside. The Ring is a metaphor for the timeless greed that empowers the leaders of industrialization to obliterate everything good about the countryside and noble traditional culture. In the end, the destruction of greed and the triumph of nobility signals the maturation of humanity, so the elves can fade away with the magic of the world/song of Eru/veneer of mysticism and leave emotionally ready humans in charge of protecting and directing the world.

The real teaching of Tolkein, if you need to put pone together, is that the old forces of traditionalism and religion and mysticism held society together but those things will fade in time, and that humanity needs to be emotionally mature enough to handle the burden of correctly and nobly guiding a world that could easily be destroyed by hubris and greed if we forget our better natures.

>>6788179
You couldn't be more wrong. Tolkien himself stated many times that his writings were not metaphors, that they should not be seen as parallel to anything. Yes he was against industrialization in the countryside, but he clearly stated that his stories, particularly middle earth, were not metaphors. He made middle earth to be a truly English folklore story, unlike King Arthur et al.

>>6788246
For the unbelievers, here's a verbatim quote from the prologue to LoTR.

"As for any inner meaning or ‘message’, it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical. As the story grew it put down roots (into the past) and threw out unexpected branches: but its main theme was settled from the outset by the inevitable choice of the Ring as the link between it and The Hobbit. The crucial chapter, ‘The Shadow of the Past’, is one of the oldest parts of the tale. It was written long before the foreshadow of 1939 had yet become a threat of inevitable disaster, and from that point the story would have developed along essentially the same lines, if that disaster had been averted. Its sources are things long before in mind, or in some cases already written, and little or nothing in it was modified by the war that began in 1939 or its sequels.

...

>>6788255
(Continued)

The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and before long he would have made a Great Ring of his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth. In that conflict both sides would have held hobbits in hatred and contempt: they would not long have survived even as slaves. Other arrangements could be devised according to the tastes or views of those who like allegory or topical reference. But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

...

>>6788257
(Continued)

An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous. It is also false, though naturally attractive, when the lives of an author and critic have overlapped, to suppose that the movements of thought or the events of times common to both were necessarily the most powerful influences. One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead. Or to take a less grievous matter: it has been supposed by some that ‘The Scouring of the Shire’reflects the situation in England at the time when I was finishing my tale. It does not. It is an essential part of the plot, foreseen from the outset, though in the event modified by the character of Saruman as developed in the story without, need I say, any allegorical significance or contemporary political reference whatsoever. It has indeed some basis in experience, though slender (for the economic situation was entirely different), and much further back. The country in which I lived in childhood was being shabbily destroyed before I was ten, in days when motor-cars were rare objects (I had never seen one) and men were still building suburban railways. Recently I saw in a paper a picture of the last decrepitude of the once thriving corn-mill beside its pool that long ago seemed to me so important. I never liked the looks of the Young miller, but his father, the Old miller, had a black beard, and he was not named Sandyman. "

>>6788246
i think you latched on to the word metaphor a little too hard, the ring and the plot of lotr can be about the nature of humanity without it being a literal metaphor of WW2, thats what tolkien was talking about in that excerpt

>>6730064
Chew on this:

Sauron, the great destroyer of the West, beguiles people in power, like Saruman, to do his bidding, no matter the end result. Saruman, under the influence of this Great Deceiver, cuts ties with the Men of the West, and with nature, choosing instead to try to raise a literal army of mongrelized orcs and goblins to overthrow the world of Men and even those of Elves, all the while telling these beasts they were once great, and it was the Men of the West who stripped them of that honor. Saruman also begins to tour the wild woods and incite violence and murderous rampages by outcast tribes, using much the same tactic.

The Hobbits, adults but only naive children, are then saddled with a crushing burden of either redeeming the world and delivering it from evil, or allowing it to perish, and all good be destroyed. This burden fell to them while the world of Men fell silent to their troubles, choosing instead to eke out an existence of mediocrity, rather than the boldness and greatness that defined their predecessors. Even then, with wild hordes of monsters and estranged kin murdering and pillaging their way through their homelands, Men, or their leaders at least, won't create a much needed alliance to save themselves. In fact, those that rock the boat are ostracized and even banished, left to form their own bands of loyal but disavowed guard, attempting to fulfill their duties as they swore to.
Consider all that I have typed above, and consider the political clime of North America and Europe today, and tell me that isn't exactly what's happening. Did Tolkien do this intentionally? Did he see what was coming? Maybe, history is cyclical after all. But maybe he didn't.. Maybe this is just good lore than fits perfectly with current circumstances. Regardless, watch the films and reread the books and start thinking of things in more modern terms. It's eerie

>>6788608
with some mental gymnastics most stories can be surprisingly relevant, but i agree this one is eerily so.

>>6788611 (checked)
I know what you mean, and I really dislike that sort of academic "the drapes are turquoise to symbolize the morning sickness of '73" and shit like that. It's contrived and I hate it. However, I think LotR is different in this aspect. The similarities are there. You don't have to twist your mind around it, just change the tint of your view slightly, and there it is.

>>6769530
cute

>>6788179
>The real teaching of Tolkein, if you need to put pone together, is that the old forces of traditionalism and religion and mysticism held society together but those things will fade in time
That may be what you read into it, but that's pretty antithetical to Tolkien's actual views.

Started my annual LOTR trilogy watching today.
Fellowship is still as feelsy as it has always been.

Let me know if you guys want any screenshots.

>>6791971

Probably too late, but I wouldn't mind some.

>>6792506
Just let me know what you want screenshot.

>>6792569

Oh... I didn't have anything specific in mind. I figured you'd just fire at will. Maybe some shots of Hobbiton or some with the Nazgul for starters.

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These are from a 1080 brrip, so the quality is perhaps not up to expectations/desires.

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>>6793308

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>>6793320

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>>6793320
Poring over*
Sorry.

Anyone recognize the location the map depicts?

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>>6793326

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I'm being a bit too thorough here.

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It's just so wonderful to see the reunion.

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More of Hobbiton.

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The pain in his eyes.

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Having Sauron in the background like this was probably not an accident.

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Really think that Legolas and Gimli should've been introduced better.

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It's getting tedious.

Make requests, please.

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One of my favourite scenes.

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One of Boromir's redeeming scenes.

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>My kin

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I don't feel like taking a screenshot of Boromir's end, but if anyone wants it, you'll get it.

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>>6750855
1/2

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>>6750855
2/2

My god, are those captures from a YIFY release or something? They look awful.

>>6793393
anoXmous, but ye, they're at a level where I'm not sure I'll bother doing more.

Going to buy the 15-disc box soon. Might do a thread then.

>>6793384
Can you give me a screenshot of the Uruk Hai berserker with the torch running towards the drain in the wall of Helm's Deep?

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>>6793404

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>The Uruks turn North-East
>They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!

Where were they at this point in time?

>>6793414
Cool, thanks. Can you perhaps take some more of the same scene. One with an arrow in his shoulder? One as seen from the wall?

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>>6793417
I'll do a few.

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>>6793417
There's a shitload of movement tho.

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>>6793417
What you were looking for or?

>>6793422
Just one more as seen from the wall would be plenty. Thanks.

>>6793403
God speed anon. Are they going to be blu-ray? If so, I can't wait.

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>>6793424
Right side of ladder.
>>6793425
Yupyup.
Might not watch them until the summer or next Christmas tho.

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>>6793424
The two black bars on the right and left annoy the crap out of me now. Luckily they're not there on movie #1 and 3.

>>6793428
>>6793426
This is cool. Thanks.

If you enjoy making dark screenshots of Uruk-Hais at Helm's Deep, you can always continue.

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>>6793429
I can do a few.

>>6793430
Cool, I love dark wallpapers and I love LOTR.

>>6721741
what is this? looks like some game engine

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>>6793433
DeviantArt perhaps.

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Final one for now, though I am accepting requests.

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>>6793326
Your map seem to depict the red square here, mainly Osgiliath and Minas Tirith, plus the mountains holding the beacons of Gondor

>>6778677
It's Ungoliant and Melkor about to destroy the two trees of Valinor.

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I'm surprised there aren't more shots from The Hobbit. Complaints about plot and pacing aside, it is a gorgeous movie.

>>6796310
Would have to agree, tho the reliance on CGI is a bit too much imho.
>>6793425
The box arrived in the mail today, but I'm not sure when I can be arsed to screenshot stuff.

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Somebody catalog this

>>6732555
Does anyone have a minimalism version of this?

>>6734422
The copyright mark is in an unfortunately visible spot.

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>>6804865
Thanks for pointing it out, quick fix.