***** The Lord of the Rings: Official Thread *****

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In reply to Beat40 • 8:33a, 6/2/20
Beat40 said:
Looking forward to watching this tonight!!


Man that was fun to watch! It's good to see this they genuinely like each other. I really liked watching them all smiling while Billy Boyd was singing.

The scene rereads were fun too. That was all around done well.

Ian McKellen was the perfect Gandalf.
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 8:36a, 6/2/20
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I was mindblown to find out Boromir's speech at the Council of Elrond was written the night before shooting, and Sean Bean had his lines written down and taped to his knee that's why he was looking down when he gives that iconic line -- "One does not simply walk into Mordor."


It was funny that Christopher Lee told Ian he should have played Gandalf the first time they met. It was equally awesome seeing the footage of him telling the cast how great they had done on the films knowing he had read the book once a year. Extremely high praise from a legendary actor/figure.
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10:14p, 6/7/20
Rewatched The Martian this past Friday and forgot they called their secret meeting Project Elrond. It was a joy to see Sean Bean in that scene and part of the meeting.

Also, the director of NASA at the beginning of the meeting says that if they're giving out code names he wants Glorfindel! I had the urge to yell GLORRRFINDELLL!!

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11:53p, 6/7/20
Man, this grinned my way through that 50-minute zoom call, what an effort. And Miranda Otto keeps getting finer with age - looking fantastic at age 52.

Really liked the Bernard Hill moment at the end; still my favorite character from LOTR




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9:20a, 6/20/20
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Beautiful tribute to Ian Holm from Peter Jackson.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/peter-jackson/the-wonderful-sir-ian-holm/10158439252151558/
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 11:35a, 6/20/20
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Very nice tribute. Thanks for posting!
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11:49a, 7/29/20
I'll try to get a LOTR tournament going by Friday.
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 1:31p, 7/29/20
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MuckRaker96 said:
I'll try to get a LOTR tournament going by Friday.


Character? Scene?
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2:17p, 7/29/20
moment
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 11:20p, 7/29/20
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MuckRaker96 said:
I'll try to get a LOTR tournament going by Friday.


Where we meeting up to play the board game?
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In reply to RikkiTikkaTagem • 11:21p, 7/29/20
AgStuckinLBK said:
MuckRaker96 said:
I'll try to get a LOTR tournament going by Friday.


Where we meeting up to play the board game?


Your mom's house.
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 11:23p, 7/29/20
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MuckRaker96 said:
AgStuckinLBK said:
MuckRaker96 said:
I'll try to get a LOTR tournament going by Friday.


Where we meeting up to play the board game?


Your mom's house.


LOTR board game? that's probably correct
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Fat Bib Fortuna
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8:43a, 8/3/20
Sorry for the delay in the LOTR Tournament. As I was finalizing entries Thursday night I became aware that Horn of Ban Hammer had been sounded on my account ONE LAST TIME.

Staff, not a big fan of creativity with anagrams it seems, even when the post was 7 days old.

Anyway, taking the kiddos to the water park today. Will get it rolling tomorrow.
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 8:59a, 8/3/20
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MuckRaker96 said:
Will get it rolling tomorrow.
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7:10a, 8/4/20
In case you missed the original thread.

Well, this certainly took some doing.

In all, I've picked out 140 of the best moments from the theatrical versions of Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King. They are presented here in 35 groups of 4, with each group named for a poster from BES's Lord of the Rings thread that he started in January 2020.

The groups were chosen with a random # generator. It's resulted in some groups that are top heavy and some that are not fantastic. Some groups have 4 entries from one movie even. But random seems a lot better than me trying to seed them all.

So the rules are pretty simple - vote for your favorite moment from each group. That equals 35 automatic qualifiers for a field of 64. The next 29 highest vote getters earn the 29 wild cards. They'll be seeded according to # of votes. The seeding won't be perfect but as we saw in the Marvel tournament with the same format, the cream inevitably rises to the top.

Take your time voting, there are a lot of groups. If you're just a casual fan, you're going to be on Wikipedia or YouTube a lot today. Around midnight I'll cap the voting and seed the tournament.

Thanks for participating.

VOTE HERE
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In reply to RikkiTikkaTagem • 7:34a, 8/4/20
AgStuckinLBK said:
MuckRaker96 said:
I'll try to get a LOTR tournament going by Friday.


Where we meeting up to play the board game?
There are actually 3 Lord of the Rings board games that stand out as excellent:
Lord of the Rings is one of the early cooperative titles, and was designed my Reiner Knizia. It can be a bit dry, but the artwork is by John Howe and a lot of the favorites are there.

Reiner also designed Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, which will feel very similar to stratego in the hidden pieces aspect. But a nice little title that evokes the Tolkien theme well.

War of the Ring is a beast to learn, but in my opinion the best Tolkien/gaming marriage out there. If you want to feel that you hold the balance of Middle Earth in the palm of your hand this is the one.
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In reply to tallgrant • 10:38a, 8/4/20
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tallgrant said:
AgStuckinLBK said:
MuckRaker96 said:
I'll try to get a LOTR tournament going by Friday.


Where we meeting up to play the board game?
There are actually 3 Lord of the Rings board games that stand out as excellent:
Lord of the Rings is one of the early cooperative titles, and was designed my Reiner Knizia. It can be a bit dry, but the artwork is by John Howe and a lot of the favorites are there.

Reiner also designed Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, which will feel very similar to stratego in the hidden pieces aspect. But a nice little title that evokes the Tolkien theme well.

War of the Ring is a beast to learn, but in my opinion the best Tolkien/gaming marriage out there. If you want to feel that you hold the balance of Middle Earth in the palm of your hand this is the one.
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10:39a, 8/4/20
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Anyone play Lord of the Rings Online?

I was obsessed for a solid year or two. Better game than WoW, in my opinion.
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 11:28a, 8/4/20
Well. I know what I'm doing this weekend. Can't read through all that and NOT marathon Lord of the Rings. Soundtrack will be played while I work on Friday to get in the mood.
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11:30a, 8/4/20
Also, Theoden only has a handful of lines, but most of them are great moments and several are in my short list of all time favorite movie quotes.
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 11:31a, 8/4/20
Brian Earl Spilner said:
Anyone play Lord of the Rings Online?

I was obsessed for a solid year or two. Better game than WoW, in my opinion.
I played Star Wars Galaxies for 2-3 years pretty much everyday. What I wanted it to be vs. what is was made me quit and I've never gotten into another MMORPG.
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 12:40p, 8/4/20
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Yep, SWG was terrible
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Yep, SWG was terrible
I got banned for 72 hours from SWG for using my merchant character to rename bits of junk into things like "Fragment of Death Star" and "Mace Windu's lightsaber casing" and listing them on my vendors for upwards of 10+ million credits.
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 1:10p, 8/4/20
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MuckRaker96 said:
In case you missed the original thread.

Well, this certainly took some doing.

In all, I've picked out 140 of the best moments from the theatrical versions of Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King. They are presented here in 35 groups of 4, with each group named for a poster from BES's Lord of the Rings thread that he started in January 2020.

The groups were chosen with a random # generator. It's resulted in some groups that are top heavy and some that are not fantastic. Some groups have 4 entries from one movie even. But random seems a lot better than me trying to seed them all.

So the rules are pretty simple - vote for your favorite moment from each group. That equals 35 automatic qualifiers for a field of 64. The next 29 highest vote getters earn the 29 wild cards. They'll be seeded according to # of votes. The seeding won't be perfect but as we saw in the Marvel tournament with the same format, the cream inevitably rises to the top.

Take your time voting, there are a lot of groups. If you're just a casual fan, you're going to be on Wikipedia or YouTube a lot today. Around midnight I'll cap the voting and seed the tournament.

Thanks for participating.

VOTE HERE
Awesome! Can't wait for the one you do for The Best Hobbit Trilogy Moments!
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Legal Custodian said:
MuckRaker96 said:
In case you missed the original thread.

Well, this certainly took some doing.

In all, I've picked out 140 of the best moments from the theatrical versions of Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King. They are presented here in 35 groups of 4, with each group named for a poster from BES's Lord of the Rings thread that he started in January 2020.

The groups were chosen with a random # generator. It's resulted in some groups that are top heavy and some that are not fantastic. Some groups have 4 entries from one movie even. But random seems a lot better than me trying to seed them all.

So the rules are pretty simple - vote for your favorite moment from each group. That equals 35 automatic qualifiers for a field of 64. The next 29 highest vote getters earn the 29 wild cards. They'll be seeded according to # of votes. The seeding won't be perfect but as we saw in the Marvel tournament with the same format, the cream inevitably rises to the top.

Take your time voting, there are a lot of groups. If you're just a casual fan, you're going to be on Wikipedia or YouTube a lot today. Around midnight I'll cap the voting and seed the tournament.

Thanks for participating.

VOTE HERE
Awesome! Can't wait for the one you do for The Best Hobbit Trilogy Moments!


******MOST TOLERABLE THE HOBBIT MOMENTS******
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2:23p, 8/8/20
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If you're like me and have seen the trilogy countless times, I always get a kick out of seeing people watch them for the first time.

Here's one of the more entertaining ones I've seen.



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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 2:43p, 8/8/20
Brian Earl Spilner said:
If you're like me and have seen the trilogy countless times, I always get a kick out of seeing people watch them for the first time.

Here's one of the more entertaining ones I've seen.



How long before you slide into her DMs?
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 2:50p, 8/8/20
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Should my opener be...

"Anyone told you you look like Rosie Cotton? Well say hello to your Samwise."
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 10:46p, 8/8/20
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I played for a year or two bavk around 2010 when it went Free to play. Only mmorpg that I've played. Fantastic game but job and girlfriend and wife and kids got in the way. I really wish I could go back and play now with the mounted combat.
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 10:49p, 8/8/20
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Ponda Baba's arm?
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In reply to ChipFTAC01 • 11:02p, 8/8/20
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ChipFTAC01 said:
girlfriend and wife and kids


That's a lot to juggle
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