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Middle Earth The Peter Jackson masterpieces, covering Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, & Return of the King. With The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug, & There and Back Again.

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Old 8th December 2007, 08:32 AM   #76 (permalink)
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Re: Best of the three?

Thoroughly agree about the ending for RotK - in the book you have The Scouring of the Shire as a local coda to the adventure, but the film just sort of trails away.....
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Old 10th December 2007, 09:40 PM   #77 (permalink)
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Still can't believe that Jackson didnt film the 'proper' ending for the extended version
Without the Scourging of the Shire , LOTR loses much of it's impact imho - It just goes to prove how brilliant an author - correction , story-teller Tolkein was - how many other authors would think , or dare , to use the seemingly climatic finale at Mount Doom only as a precursor to the hobbits' poignant return to the Shire?
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Old 10th December 2007, 10:01 PM   #78 (permalink)
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FOTR was the film I enjoyed the most, The scenes in Moria, Borromir's death scene, Whether top all stood out for me. Perhaps because it was the first film.

The ending of ROTK was a bit of a let down. Couldn't stop laughing when Aragorn burst into song at his coronation.
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Old 11th December 2007, 10:00 AM   #79 (permalink)
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The ending of ROTK was a bit of a let down. Couldn't stop laughing when Aragorn burst into song at his coronation.
The way he tried to swallow Arwen's face was a little, ahem, not in keeping with the tone. I kept thinking he was gonna try and rip her dress off there and then.

I have to say I though TTT was fantastic, probably the best afaic, although the spectacle of the battles in ROTK was phenomenal. In the cinema, when the camera pans over the wall to give you your first glimpse of the might of the army against them, there was a simultaneous 'holy ****' from just about everyone.
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Old 11th December 2007, 07:35 PM   #80 (permalink)
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tbh i have to say that i prefered TT's ending as that was the most true to the book

i hated the leaving out of sharky from hobbiton

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Old 11th December 2007, 08:55 PM   #81 (permalink)
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tbh i have to say that i prefered TT's ending as that was the most true to the book

i hated the leaving out of sharky from hobbiton

**shakes fists in anger**

yeah , a good villain these days is hard to find...
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Old 11th December 2007, 09:43 PM   #82 (permalink)
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i wonder if the sharky lot will be "sam's" tale to tell...a possible sequel??
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Old 6th March 2008, 05:16 AM   #83 (permalink)
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Fellowship of the Ring, since it's also the book I enjoyed the most.

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Old 6th March 2008, 04:24 PM   #84 (permalink)
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My favorite was The Return of the King. Can't remember which book was my favorite while reading them (it's been awhile) but I thoroughly enjoyed the last movie. Everything seemed to work perfectly together, special effects, acting, music, etc.
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Old 6th March 2008, 04:42 PM   #85 (permalink)
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I haven't read the whole thread - just Brian's initial comment and this page - but I was so surprised I had to say that I liked TTT far and away the best of the three.

We had finished with all the introductions, the fellowship was well established, though two lost, and we had all the lovely Rohan stuff - my absolute favourite part of the books.

And as for the battle of Helm's Deep, nothing in ROTK matched it for me. And together with many others I missed the Scouring (not "scourging" please note) of the Shire from the last film, together with the proper ending of Saruman and Wormtongue.

So, although there are wonderful moments in the other films - House of Elrond, Moria, death of Boromir ("My brother, my captain, my king" - not a dry eye in the house), the Argonath in the first one and everything to do with Faramir and Eowyn, the Paths of the Dead and Gollum in the third - it's the Two Towers for me all the way.

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Old 1st July 2008, 08:37 PM   #86 (permalink)
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Well i rate 2 separed ways: longest and more action

LOTR 1 _ 4/5 - 3/5
LOTR 2 _ 4/5 - 5/5
LOTR 3 _ 5/5 - 5/5

Best - LOTR 3
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Old 1st July 2008, 09:33 PM   #87 (permalink)
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TTT for me, the Battle for Helms Deep is brill and then there are the Ents (the last march of the Ents music is my second favourite. Although there is the whole charge of the Rohirrim and the sheer scale of the Minas Tirth battle, are great, the actual siege of Minas Trith itself doesn't quite live up to the scale they set it up for, IMHO. It's pretty close (although The Fields (from the Rohirrim charge, is my single favourite song, atm)
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Old 17th October 2008, 06:21 PM   #88 (permalink)
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FOTR demains my favourite movie. When I went to see it at the cinema for the first time ( I went three times) i wasn't sure Peter J could do justice to my favourite book. But after the opening scene I was already starting to relax and enjoy the spectacle

Besides that point I really love the film for its character moments and the mines of Moria. And well just about everything else about the experience.
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Old 6th December 2012, 07:59 PM   #89 (permalink)
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The Fellowship is maybe my favorite, but then again maybe the Return. It's too hard to choose. I also LOVE The Two Towers
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Old 7th December 2012, 12:04 PM   #90 (permalink)
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TTT is the least good of the three, especially the cringe-inducing closing section - not least where Sam manages to rescue Frodo from the winged Black Rider. Not terribly likely...
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