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Scythus Aratan - Student  |
I was bored so I thought, I know I'll make a poll about your favourite Lord of the Rings scenes from the movie. So just write what your favourite scene is, and later i'll narrow the most popular ones down to 5, and do an option poll. Thanks, Scythus _______________ Padawan to the great Jacen Aratan! <Setementor> Scythus is a genius! Claimer of the 5000th post in the Count thread [Solitude] scy rocks [Casual] good point scythus, you're really smart |
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Raziel Anjelis - Student 
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rawr this is gonna go on for ages so ill end with this point ------ I won the argument! only jokin, i just cant be bothered to carry on...too tired.... _______________ Proud owner of El Vee For's 200th Comment, and Wicek's 2600th comment DaMi3N's 400th, Trad Redav's 666th.
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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Quote: Oh yeah and Bail? Elves and dwarves have shared lots of animosity so they are generally evil to each other. How would Legolas feel knowing someone half his size from a race that the Elves cannot bear to be in the same room as, has just killed more than him. Seeing as they are friends, and Legolas was worried about Gimli (see The Two Towers book), he would accept it  _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Raziel Anjelis - Student
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Oh yeah and Bail? Elves and dwarves have shared lots of animosity so they are generally evil to each other. How would Legolas feel knowing someone half his size from a race that the Elves cannot bear to be in the same room as, has just killed more than him. _______________ Proud owner of El Vee For's 200th Comment, and Wicek's 2600th comment DaMi3N's 400th, Trad Redav's 666th.
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Ash - Eats Babies 
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For marketing purposes they had to make Legolas all uber cool. I mean, they didn't want all the fan girls lusting after a hairy dwarf now did they? _______________ "We keep odd hours...." ----------------------- They Live, We Sleep |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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Ah crap. Jacen, you're gonna kill me, but I meant "they never fought in the books" whoops my mistake, so sorry  _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Roan Belouve - Retired 
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I love threads like this that realy get ppl expressing their opinions and with such passion. Just wish i could read quicker  I love the Gollum/Smeagol conversation in TTT thats my no 1 scene and yes Legolas was too cool. _______________ *Bro to Vaxxla,Padawan of FiZZandOdan-Wei Part of the mighty Belouve Dynasty-Knight of Nippledom.Twin of Selphestal!**Proud Master to Kaelis and Acura Friend to anyone who would call me the same . Pic by the amazing Majno (merry)
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Eh? They do meet in the book, during the Siege of Minas Tirith. Quote: Thrice he cried. Thrice the great ram boomed. And suddenly upon the last stroke the Gate of Gondor broke. As if stricken by some blasting spell it burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning, and the doors tumbled in riven fragments to the ground. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dínen. "You cannot enter here," said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. "Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!" The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kringly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter. "Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade. - The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, pages 810-811 (pub. Collins). I believe Gandalf at some point speaks about the Nazgûl Lord's skill level, and it being close to his own, or even better (though I may be mixing up movie and book, can't remember). PS: You better appreciate the effort it took for me to type up that page! |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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Quote: The RotK extended version is by far the best of the extended, imo. I loved the scene with the Nazgûl King owning Gandalf... the Witch King is way cooler, and they do meet in the book, he just has to leave before he gets the chance to own Gandalf. Yes, they never met in the book, but why would he own Gandalf? He's no Maia last time I look, but Gandalf is. And come on, with those nifty new powers, he should kick their (The Nazgûl) butt _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
The RotK extended version is by far the best of the extended, imo. I loved the scene with the Nazgûl King owning Gandalf... the Witch King is way cooler, and they do meet in the book, he just has to leave before he gets the chance to own Gandalf. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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Yeah I agree. When I was at the cinema, and I saw the Elves appear, I litterally swore "wtf", only not the letters, but the actual words I personally loved Gandalf, even though he lost to the Witch King, I hear. I'm reluctant to watch ROTK Extended because I'll get annoyed at this scene. Also, in the cinematic version of ROTK they cut out way too much. I actually looked forward to the power "struggle" between Gandalf and Saruman. No dice though What I particularly hated about the movies was Legolas, being über-cool and all. I mean come on. He isn't like that in the books. I've always thought of him to be more mysterious in stead of all cool and quick, etc You know, when I saw the Elves appear at Helm's Deep, I actually expected to see hundreds of Legolasses, but instead we got wimps who were owned in 3 minutes. ... What was that about? They aren't just freaking Elves, they are the guardians of Lothlórien, seeing plenty of battle at the borders, or am I terribly mistaken on this? The extended scene in TTT where Gimly is sitting on a dead Uruk-Hai, was plain ridiculous. They screwed Legolas over in that part, where they made him appear as someone who can't take his loss, even though he says it himself in the book TTT, that he didn't mind Gimli winning. Anyway, all in all, I like the movies. Some things are great, some are not. The trailer showed Aragorn doing his speech in an almost perfect way. Compare the trailer to the speech he gave at Mordor. Totally different. Totally different. I mean come on ... That didn't sound too great at all at the gates of Mordor. It could have been better. your views all? _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Rinzler - Student 
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the part where gandalf the white appears and has a galactic stoner flashback scene of him spinning out through a colourful universe thing _______________ I fite for teh usars!1 |
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Casual - Student 
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Quote: LOTR The Two Towers: After the battle for helm's deep, gimli is sitting on an urukhai......cant be bothered to type it so watch the extended dvd Oh and do i have permission to beat cas senseless? LOTR rawks n the actors of the free peoples outshined the evil (considering Sir Ian McKellen has been acting for at least 50 yrs) Aye, LotR _does_ rawk, but now I'm talking about the literature that Tolkien created. I've been obsessed with the story since my ma first read it to me and my brothers when we were four years old or something. So I've created a kind of obsessive-possessive relationship with the novels. And that's why I didn't find the movies even close to the standards I had set in my mind. I mean face it, when you have approximately 1000 pages of writing, a plethora of characters, locations, dialogues, and events, PLUS you have an enormous mythology created to support the trilogy (if you're thinking only of Silmarillion, there's more, there's so much more and not only in literature (Histories of Middle-Earth etc.) but also in Tolkien's legacy that lives in the fans' minds who keep on creating the mythology), so it would be nigh impossible to create a movie that satisfies everyone with all that looming in the background. I have the extended editions on DVD, and I enjoy watching them over every now and then. The movie _was_ good, audiovisually and some of the actors were great (I didn't take a swipe at MacKellan, I love the guy's acting skills) and some of them weren't. For example, Aragorn could have been a great character and he could have been acted well by Viggo had he been written well. The stupid love story (that belongs in the Appendices, you know, the stuff that you cut out when you have a sore stomach) just took the edge out of his blade. And also some liberties the writers took on his characterisation (like the disappearance of him after the battle with the Wargs en route to Helm's Deep.. WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?!). When I saw the movie trilogy, I beat my self for having read the books a gazillion times, since I know my attitude was very snobbish when I watched the movies. But they were _good_, really good. But this monologue that I'm writing (for some godforsaken reason) is just person's point of view. I have no idea what compelled me to write this and miss my bus to work, maybe it started off as a retort to Raziel asking for permission to beat me up (I warn you, I have no sense of humour in the mornings), or maybe it was the result of a crazy dream that I saw last night, and I still haven't woken up. -Cas _______________ Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. |
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Raziel Anjelis - Student
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LOTR The Two Towers: After the battle for helm's deep, gimli is sitting on an urukhai......cant be bothered to type it so watch the extended dvd Oh and do i have permission to beat cas senseless? LOTR rawks n the actors of the free peoples outshined the evil (considering Sir Ian McKellen has been acting for at least 50 yrs) _______________ Proud owner of El Vee For's 200th Comment, and Wicek's 2600th comment DaMi3N's 400th, Trad Redav's 666th.
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Jade Jedi - Retired 
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My favourite sceen is the same for all three movies. The end credits, ah what a yawn fest, best 3hrs sleep I've ever had. Sorry not a fan. Come to think of it, when ever I see Frodo and Sam, thats when I start to nod off. Maybe I should watch it like M@ul, with fast forward at the ready. _______________ *CLICKEH->Never risk the Fett Man|*Download my Saber here. Made by master craftsman Pink Floyd_Mintaka + his 2002 & 4000 comment's [Laz's 700th comment][BDKawika's 600th comment] & Owner of a TOWEL award!!|Master: Sared Padawans: Rage-Ball and Dante Eagle.|*Jade Jedi at The Jedi Academy Archives "There's only one Return and it's not of the King it's of the Jedi" Randal Clerks 2 The top 10 reasons why I procrastinate: 1. |
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D@RtHM@UL - Student 
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Quote: Annoying scenes: - Everything with Frodo and Sam together, particularly those in which Frodo does his pathetic eyebrow look - Everything with Gollum/Smeagol in it - Anything with Legolas showing of (e.g. the Mumakil) - Anything concerning a huge spider - Any scenes including drunk Hobbits singing Indeed....I've seen LotR on DVD multiple times, and I still like watching it....but the scenes with Frodo/Sam/Gollum in it go into Fast Forward, god I hate those scenes. And I disliked the scenes with Treabeard in TTT aswell...*yawn* Eowyn cutting the Mumakills legs so it falls down was just hilarious....the Mumakill shouldn't even get scratched by such a small weapon. Legolas' scenes are nice, but mostly because of Gimli's responses like "That still only counts as one" I loved the speech from Aragorn at the Black Gate and Theodon's speech at the fields of Pelennor. Moments were Gandalf uses his powers...when he rides out of Minas Tirith against the Nazgul, in Fangorn when he blocks Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli's weapons, and when he frees Theodon from Saruman. Balrog scene owned aswell |
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Casual - Student
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The movie was visually most impressive. My favourite scenes include: -The Argonnath (statues of the kings as the fellowship moves up the river Anduin in FotR). -the schitzophrenia of Gollum (though I didn't like it in terms of dramatisation, it was very well done in the movie with the cut-sequences. In the books the division in Gollum's mind is more hierarchial, ie. he is good and evil at the same time, not in the dual sense of one rather than other. It is more a question of conscience than of insanity in the books IMO). -Lothlorien, especially the scene where the king and the queen walk down the stairs. A beautiful place. But again, I wasn't entirely satisfied with Cate Blanchett as Galadriel (Cate is beautiful, but not _beautiful enough_ to represent an elf queen who has been around since the dawn of time and who has dwelt in the Undying lands. I expected something much much more radiant and breath-taking). -Mouth of Sauron was cool. But yet again, it was said that the Mouth could speak in words that no one can resist. When compared to this, his voice wasn't persuasive enough, sure, he had a good dialogue but Christopher Lee as Saruman portrays a far more powerful and awe-inspiring use of vocal cords. -The eagles arriving to pick Sam and Frodo. Very nice scene. My altogether favourite scenes: Most Faithful Adaption From Book To Movie And An Insanely Cool Scene Too: The ambush at weathertop. Visual Mastery: The awakening of Minas Morgul (the pillar of light to the sky and the split-second silence before the growl). I have to agree with Ulic that I disliked all scenes with Sam and Frodo (I can't stand the drooping puppy-dog look that Frodo does all the time.). Also, I hated every single large-scale battle, sure they were grand and enormous, but I thought they were spoiled with stupid little details, like Legolas attacking the Mumakil, Eowyn slashing the possibly 5 inch thick ankleskin of one of the beasts and making it fall down. Actually, Eowyn sucked. As did Arwen. Too much focus on Arwen, too too much. Where was Glorfindel who should have been the one to raise the flood at the ford of rivendell? Ffs. Talk about taking liberties. I missed Tom Bombadil and Scourging of the Shire. But dramatically, they would have been terribly anticlimatic. Just imagine, a huge battle at the black gate, the destruction of the ring, the crowning of Elessar Telcontar, and then whoosh a whole new plotline where the hobbits save Shire. No way Jose. Same thing about Tom Bombadil. It would have really shifted the focus away from the linearity that was preferred for the movie plot. And I thoroughly understand it. Besides Tom Bombadil is just utterly the coolest hippie in Middle-Earth, I'd hate to have it spoiled by some mediocre Ben Stiller -lookalike hopping around in tights. Great movie trilogy. Mediocre adaption from the books. Poor protagonist cast (all the bad guys were great, but most of the actors portraying the free people just sucked). -Cas _______________ Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. |
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Jarhok Belouve - Student 
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Probably my faveourite (eek spelling) would be when the riders of rohan turn up at minas tirith and the orcs actually look scared when they charge and they are all shouting in unison, very emotional _______________ -JARHOK BELOUVE- Unofficial Paddy to the great Squibit Belouve and Solitudes snog machine! |||||||||||||||||||||||PRONOUNCED JARHOK TEH S3X3H by Alexander D'kana||||||||||||||||||||||||| Loves Liso'sia! Uber new Belouve boy! My special people: Squibit Belouve,Roan Belouve,Bail Hope Belouve and of course the lovely Liso'sia! |
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Ulic |retired| - Student 
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- Gandalf liberating Theoden - The last march of the Ents - Wormtongues tear on Isengard - Pippin Singing Home is Behind and Denethor devouring a tomatoe - Gandalf talking to Pippin about the Undying Lands - The charge of the Rohirrim - Any scene featuring Denethors incredibly luxurious furcoat - Telcontars coronation - The White Rider and the Rohirrim at Helms Deep - The White Rider saving retreat from Osgiliath - Any scene featuring Denethors incredibly luxurious furcoat and Gandalf (preferably hitting its owner) Best scene: The Lighting of the Beacons/ kindling of Hope Best quote: Gandalf in Minas Tirith: Ridiculous Hobbit Annoying scenes: - Everything with Frodo and Sam together, particularly those in which Frodo does his pathetic eyebrow look - Everything with Gollum/Smeagol in it - Anything with Legolas showing of (e.g. the Mumakil) - Anything concerning a huge spider - Any scenes including drunk Hobbits singing _______________ Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student 
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I really liked the Arwen/Eowyen scene where they were making out, that was probably one of the best scenes in any movie ever. _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) |
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Plenty of 'cool' scenes, but I also liked the funny ones "There's plenty for the both of us, let the best dwarf win!" "That still only counts as one!" _______________ ~Dav Proud Former Padawan of 3th |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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Quote: P.s. i agree about Tom Bombadil. they just shouldn't have missed that out. actually, I understand why they skipped him. 1) no real impact on the story like Gandalf, or whoever 2) not enough time. Moves are long enough as they are (though I myself wouldn't mind)3) who will have bad critics for the movie, if it contains a man with a beard, dressed in green, blue and yellow, who sings all the time, etc etc etc ...? Too bad, that would be a lot of people who would rate this as a bad movie _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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The Dragon Reborn - Student 
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The BALROG!!! When he rises up an bursts into flame its just... impressive! P.s. i agree about Tom Bombadil. they just shouldn't have missed that out. _______________ Padawan to Solitude "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to... suffering" -Jedi Master Yoda "I shall not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will allow it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone i will turn my inner eye to see its path. Where fear has gone there will be nothing. Only i will remain." -Bene Gesserit Litany, Dune |
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Majno - Padawan 
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I gotta give it up for a Scene wich is in both Versions of FotR, The Prolog. Elendil, Isildur, Elrond & Gil-Galad Vs the Orc army & Sauron! It realy sets the tone and pase for the rest of the films _______________ " You've just taken your first steps into a larger world. " - Ben. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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personally I always liked Sam with Shelob How he handles the nasty critter is just wonderful, and really makes you think just what Friendship/Love can do to you _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Phantom - Student 
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That sence at Helms Deep when Gandalf comes in and he has like thousands of people with him. _______________ -Phantom Ex-Master to Threat. Proud owner of Sazabi's 1500th comment! And Threats 50th comment "Insanity: a perfect rational adjustment to an insane world" |
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