No.378
Tolkien fans? Who's the most well known? Who's the coolest? Who's the best?
I'd have to say Steven Colbert, at first I thought he was exaggerating but I think he really knows his stuff.
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No.379
Colbert's a faggot and he's been wrong a couple of times, it's just he's never met anyone good enough to correct him.
Also he pronounces shit terribly
Christopher Lee by far. Motherfucker could speak Sindarin, black speech and he read those books every year.
There's rumors that circulate that he was the one that kept PJ in line during the first trilogy, and without him, shit would have been as bad as the Hobbit.
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No.380
>>379
That wouldn't surprise me in the least.
I'm fucking jelly, he actually met the man himself.
>you will never have Gygax and Tolkien co-DM a tabletop game for you
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No.381
>>380
Tolkien DM would be the absolute greatest thing ever.
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No.395
>>379
>There's rumors that circulate that he was the one that kept PJ in line during the first trilogy, and without him, shit would have been as bad as the Hobbit.
He went way out of line during The Battle of the Pelennor Fields what with Legolas grinding off of Oliphant horns and doing 360noscope arrowshots. Maybe that makes sense as Saruman was dead at that point and Lee probably wasn't around the set as much because of it.
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No.396
>>395
Battle of Pelennor Fields had a lot more wrong with it than Legolas being Legolas.
Honestly I wouldn't have minded it so much if they hadn't shown those Eldar during Helm's Deep.
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No.399
>>396
Absolutely true, compared to the book the Battle of Pelennor Fields was probably the worst adapted scene out of all three movies.
Mostly I miss Aragorn riding up to the battle with the standard Arwen gave him.
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No.410
>>399
Still, the Rohirrim charge looked amazing.
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No.411
>>410
I agree, it was all Theoden's actor
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No.412
>>411
The entire moment was a great capturing of the spirit of the Tolkien secondary world really.
Fighting on beyond hope, because it's what's right.
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No.414
>>399
I'm sad the heroes of Gondor like Forlong weren't in the movie.
It would have added to the tragedy and hopelessness of the whole thing.
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No.416
>>414
The entire battle was poorly handled really. Also lacking the Dúnedain
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No.446
>>395
Everybody has that one thing about the movie adaptation that really bugs them. That's not to say the other problems don't bother them, but there is usually one or two things they just can't. For me, it's that they took out the scouring of the shire and that they really downplayed the role of Círdan. I mean I know Círdan didn't have that big of a role in the books, but he's probably my favorite character in all of the lengendarium, so it's still very annoying that he doesn't get his few lines, or that he's not there to tell Isildur to stop being a cunt and throw the ring into Orodruin.
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No.453
steven colbert is a cocksucking faggot
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No.470
>>379
>Christopher Lee by far. Motherfucker could speak Sindarin, black speech and he read those books every year.
I don't even believe in magic but I wouldn't suprised if he was an IRL wizard
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No.473
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No.527
>>473
>claim
Are they all frauds?
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No.730
>>453
>Steven Colbert is a political commentator and has detractors
I've never seen another celebrity pretend to be a Tolkienfag and still get so many things perfectly right.
For some damn reason James Franco wants to be a Tolkienfag but can't even fake it. I'm guessing he was chasing some Legolas-loving nerd chick somewhere.
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No.731
>>414
>>416
some folks complained that there were already too many characters to keep track of. Naturally PJ & Pals go and reduce the number of characters twice over–once by omission, again by inexplicable insertion and death (rip in peace Haldir). All for people who don't even like the story.
I suppose if there's more than 3 names to remember they just go into a coma.
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No.732
>>410
>>412
That scene got universal approval last I checked.
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No.733
>>446
Círdan, the most patient and loyal sunofabitch ever to ply the seas of the world. I want to see his workshop.
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No.734
>>470
he once joked to someone that his success in Hollywood was entirely due to his use of "black magic."
He can also trace his ancestry straight to Charlemagne.
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No.749
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>>734
HE SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MEN
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No.852
It still amuses me that the prince of darkness was a tolkien fan
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No.865
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