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  • #31
    Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
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    Are they just going to end it at Arwen and Aragorn's wedding? Or are they even going to show that?
    If they cut The Grey Havens too then they are insane.

    I don't think they'll do that. The final journey of Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf is a crucial part of the story. The ending would make no sense if it stopped at the wedding.

    Cutting the Scourging is bad enough, if the Grey Havens is cut too then it'll be a ****e film. Like I said, though, I think Peter Jackson loves the books too much to end the film with the wedding.
    If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by FrustratedPoet



      He's one of my favourite authors.

      It would make a good trilogy, with some editing to cut it down from 5 books. Chances of it happening are VERY remote, of course, if it ever happens at all it will probably be animated (surely cheaper than live-action).
      LOTR was animated, long before someone felt like applying resources required to make movie worthy of the book.
      Eddings is definitely Tolkien-influenced, and The Belgariad is sooo funny. Easier reading than LOTR, which one has to get into swing of reading.
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      • #33
        The theatrical release didn't spend much time explaining the Gray Havens (but the extended version did). I don't know how they could add it without a lot of explanation.

        Re the Scouring of the Shire, I agree that it's an important part of the book, but can't see how it would fit in the movie.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #34
          Damn. Why cut the Scouring of the Shire? Didn't Frodo have a "vision" of sorts in TFOTR alluding to the Shire's fate?

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          • #35
            "Why cut the Scouring of the Shire?"

            It would probably take a half hour of movie to do it. At the end, it would be sort of a downer, and would feel like it was merely tacked on to the end.

            Even the Gray Havens would only take 10 minutes, tops.
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #36
              DanS:

              True, but then again the movie also focuses a lot more on the Battle of Helm's Deep, which the book didn't apparently spend a great deal of time on (despite it being pivotal in humanity's future).

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              • #37
                I got 6 tickets for the friday show at 10:30pm, in the second biggest movie theater in the world. Anyone care to join me?
                Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit

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                • #38
                  and they'll probably include the scourching of the Shire in the Extended Edition of RotK.
                  Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit

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                  • #39
                    Wednesday will be a good day. Get up, make like I'm going to school, go to my brothers' apartment instead, watch Fellowship with my brothers and a pseudo-brother, get on the subway, head down to DC, watch The Two Towers at 2:50 at the Uptown, go home. Very fun indeed. But oh the lies I'll have to tell to my parents...
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Saint Marcus
                      I got 6 tickets for the friday show at 10:30pm, in the second biggest movie theater in the world. Anyone care to join me?
                      If you'll take care of the plane ticket?
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                      • #41
                        Watched the extended DVD last weekend to get ready...

                        Bought my tickets last night for a showing tomorrow night at 6:00...

                        Planning on going again next Saturday...

                        Yeah, I'm ready for it!!!

                        RE: Frodo's vision - It was defined as 'possibility' in the movie if the Ring was recovered by Sauron. I'm also guessing Peter Jackson has Saruman killed in TTT, so 'Scouring' will be reduced in importance. Just speculation though.

                        Grey Havens needs to stay in!!!
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                        • #42
                          Incidentally, SEE HEX'S SIG
                          Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
                          "I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis

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                          • #43
                            I don't have CTP2. Is there a Civ version of the scenario?
                            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                            For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                            • #44
                              Only Harlan's. But you must have played that already, right?
                              Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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                              • #45
                                If you'll take care of the plane ticket?
                                If you can convince me you are a cute gal I would
                                Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit

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