JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and Other Middle-Earth Stories Book • Page 24

the 1978 animated Lord Of The Rings coming to Max 12/1 . it's first time ever on a streamer

 

Andy Serkis, Peter Jackson, and the writers for The Hunt for Gollum have all contacted Viggo. They say it’s up to him if he returns, but the offer has been given.

https://movieweb.com/the-hunt-for-gollum-wants-the-lord-of-the-rings-star-viggo-mortensen/

 

I mean, without Aragorn, that isn’t a story they can tell. But also the de-aging will probably look terrible.

 

Viggo as Aragorn was perfect, lightning-in-a-bottle casting 20+ years ago and is still one of my favorite performances of all time, but boy does this sound like an awful idea to bring him back and de-age him. I really hope he turns it down and they go an alternate route (i.e. don't make the movie).

 

I think with about half a year of professional gym training, a wig and some make up it could lessen the amount of de-aging they’ll need. Luckily Aragorn at that time would look ruff and gruff. Makes it easier to match how he looked in FOTR despite the 20 year age gap for Viggo

edit: 25+ year gap. They filmed them in 1999 and this one won’t film until 2025

 

Ugh, can we please not use the F-word ( "Franchise," gross) when discussing Lord of the Rings?

 

My theater only has 1 showing of War of the Rohirrim next Saturday, but it’s in Dolby as it should be. I’m going in with mild expectations because I’m not completely sold on it being animated. We’ll see in 8 days.

 

seeing rohirrim tomorrow

 

hmm that sucked

 

Yeah. I saw it last weekend and after it was over I was like “well okay” and instantly forgot I saw it.

 

We can all look forward to Hunt for Gollum, though, right?

 

I enjoyed rohirrim more than most. Awesome animation and a simple fantasy war story.

 

I haven’t seen it, but maybe it would’ve been better received if it wasn’t released theatrically? Doesn’t make the movie any better than it is, but I feel like expectations were slightly higher because it was released in theaters.

 

Welp

 

^ my senior thesis in college was on “eucatastrophe” which is the “happy accident” behind the scenes in LOTR

 

That Culturist thread is well put! Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Tolkien:

"For it I coined the word 'eucatastrophe': the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears (which I argued it is the highest function of fairy-stories to produce). And I was there led to the view that it produces its peculiar effect because it is a sudden glimpse of Truth, your whole nature chained in material cause and effect, the chain of death, feels a sudden relief as if a major limb out of joint had suddenly snapped back. It perceives - if the story has literary 'truth' on the second plane (for which see the essay) - that this is indeed how things really do work in the Great World for which our nature is made. And I concluded by saying that the Resurrection was the greatest 'eucatastrophe' possible in the greatest Fairy Story and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love. Of course I do not mean that the Gospels tell what is only a fairy-story; but I do mean very strongly that they do tell a fairy-story: the greatest. Man the story-teller would have to be redeemed in a manner consonant with his nature: by a moving story."

 

Quiz: Are These Led Zeppelin Lyrics About Lord of the Rings or Fucking?

 

yes