just saw LOTR3

[vansmack2000]

I got a question, the high army general who said he couldnt be killed by a man, yet a woman and a hobbit can??! Did i miss something or is it that simple?
I starting thinkin how they explain all the fighting in detail in the book, how many different ways can Orge #5211 swing his club and kill someone..hmmm

 

[egotistical_player]

Yeah what was up with that, a woman, yes she has been training for a long time but the witchking seemed badass and I don't think he would have fallen to her.

 

[Heahy Minister]

My take on ROTK. Obviously a great movie on a huge scale which is what makes it fantastic, but if I had to pick it apart...

The scenes with Gollum, Frodo, and Sam get overly played out. Not even halfway into the movie and I'm hoping Gollum dies and never returns. I get sick of seeing his character. Too many repetitive scenes with Sam bickering with Gollum.

Secondly, they should not have cut out the scenes with Sauron. They should have showed how his power came to an end at the beginning as they had originally intended. All his scenes were cut out and that was a bad move on Peter Jackson's part. It would have also further added to seeing a variety of characters.

Thirdly, you don't see much of the "Fellowship" in this movie...Aragon and ESPECIALLY the elf and dwarf (the main ones). They are suppose to be the main characters yet don't have much screen time in this third part.

Fourthly, Gandalph is made out to look like a normal character. He is suppose to be a powerful wizard, yet the scenes where he is fighting and running out of breath severely downplay his character. Also, the main bad guy (the dark one whom the girl defeated) said that he will handle Gandalph. I was expecting there to be some kind of face-off between Gandalph and the main "bad guy" within the battle, yet there was none. That was disappointing.

 

[AAP]

And why did that "king" want to set the red haired man on fire (who rode against the enemies outnumbered) when he knew he was alive?

 

[sigweed]

excellent explainations.

Ok... one more. How did Gollum lose the ring? If he had it for 500 years or so? And how did he avoid the wraiths that came looking for it?

this was explained in The Hobbit
I havent read this forever, but from what i rememebr, Bilbo Baggins (Frodo's uncle) went on an adventure in his youth (he was like 60 or something), meeting many amazing creatures and events, but ultimately he ended up in a dragon's cave with tons of tunnels, corridors, crall spaces, etc, and i THINK he literally just stumbled over the ring as he was crawling through darkness. I guess Gollum just left it there because no one had ever come through there before, so he figured it was safe

 

[rushx79]

gollum just left it laying around in this cave deep within a mountain and bilbo stumbled across it.

in the hobbit bilbo and gollum's paths cross in the cave and gollum challenges bilbo to a contest of riddles-if bilbo can stump him gollum will let him live. bilbo stumps him and gollum, of course, goes back on his word but not before bilbo slips the ring on his finger, becomes invisible, and then escapes.

i hate it when people pick at minor details in a fantasy novel or movie. just use your imagination to explain away problems you may have. its not real afterall.

 

[coldblue1955]

i never cared too much for the lotr hype. But maybe someday i'll watch the second part. The 2 towers.

 

[PIGEON-RAT]

great movie, i can't wait for the uncut dvd

 

[Deleted member 33117]

b fold, the resembalance to warcraft is because all high fantasy is based on Tolkien. These books are older than you and I.

AAP, the ring wanted to get back to its true master, so it tricked Gollum into dropping it in his cave. While he was looking for it, Bilbo (Frodo's uncle) found it. Its all in the book The Hobbit, which is now also titled in stores "There and Back Again, A Hobbit's Tale" I believe.

The Nine did dot come after Gollum because Sauron had not yet rewaken and he did not have the power to summon the Nine again, until the begining of the first book/movie. It had taken him thousands of years to reform his spirit after being destroyed.

 

[digger]

Loved the whole trilogy...except for the last 10 minutes. I wish I read the book so that I could have appreciated it even more.

If you had read the books, you'd probably be throwing stuff at the screen.

The parts that made me sad were the ones where Peter Jackson finally used one line out of the book, and for maybe two seconds you could see what the movies could have been -- but then they went back to the Peter Jackson version and those feelings went away real quick.