The Lord of the Rings The War of the Rohirrim
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The following is spoiler coded for the benefit of those who have not read the appendices and are therefore not aware of all the characters that appear in the original story.
Very cool.
Those who have read the portion of the appendencies dealing with the story of Helm Hammerhand may recall that Saruman himself shows up at the very end bearing gifts and praising the people of Rohan and taking up residence at Isengard.
For this very brief section of the movie, not only is Saruman depicted in the likeness of Christopher Lee (see the slashfilm article), but his voice is used for the character as well. It's apparently only a single line of dialogue, and after scouring through and utilizing archive audio from his previous performances as Saruman, they specifically chose an unused take of a line of dialogue from The Hobbit to work with.
www.slashfilm.com
For this very brief section of the movie, not only is Saruman depicted in the likeness of Christopher Lee (see the slashfilm article), but his voice is used for the character as well. It's apparently only a single line of dialogue, and after scouring through and utilizing archive audio from his previous performances as Saruman, they specifically chose an unused take of a line of dialogue from The Hobbit to work with.
The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim Anime Will Have Christopher Lee's Voice – But Not How You Think - SlashFilm
Christopher Lee passed away in 2015, but he'll be the voice of Saruman in The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim - and not via AI.
www.slashfilm.com
Very cool.
If you have not already read the appendices, I highly recommend appendix A, part (v), "Here Follows A Part of the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen". If nothing else, I'm pretty sure it's the only place where you can find dialogue for Arwen that was actually written by Tolkien.
For my part, the story I want to see adapted is actually in "Unfinished Tales", which is unfortunately not covered by any licensing agreements, and that story is "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan". It's a rousing tale of Gondor and the formation of Rohan with action, suspense and glorious battle coupled with a little bit of help from Galadriel and the threat of the darkness emanating from Dol Guldur (ie: Necromancer/Sauron). It has all the elements to make a solid, highly accessible and entertaining Lord of the Rings tale, but, as I said, the "Unfinished Tales" book is not covered by any licensing agreements. Alas.
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If I could have any Tolkien story adapted, regardless of rights issues, it would 100% be one of Tolkien's Great Tales. I think that Beren & Luthien or Children of Hurin could be fantastic tales in live action, but they'd have to be done loyally to the story and the fact that they feature no Hobbits or rings and only a few vaguely familiar (to general audience) characters would probably make them too difficult for a company to want to produce even if they got the rights.
I also would absolutely love to see The Fall of Gondolin adapted, but also The Children of Hurin, and Beren and Lúthien.
Heck - I’d also love to see The Unfinished Tales put to live action!
Heck - I’d also love to see The Unfinished Tales put to live action!
Agreed, they definitely won't sell the rights to that story... unless the Lord of the Rings money dries up, and their only way of making "deeply personal" money with a few pen strokes is to license out more of the old man's works.
I mean the introduction of Beren to Luthien is very loosely based off a moment Tolkien had with his wife early in their relationship, and their shared Tombstone labels them as Beren and Luthien, but the actual story is Tolkien Fantasy and not really related to any real world events outside of its brief inspiration. So its not really that the story itself is deeply personal, its that Tolkien loved his wife and in the end considered her the "Luthien" to his "Beren", but not in a direct one to one way.
Still, there is a reason I specified "if there were no rights issues" in what I said
I was going to mention it, but its the most incomplete/open of the Great tales and I can't see anyone, even the most loyal adaptation minded person, not having to expand a lot of the actual Gondolin portion of the tale to get it to work. The parts about Tuor and his journeys are covered pretty well if you combine a few of the drafts, but once he's in Gondolin I think it would inevitably need a lot of fleshing out if you didn't want to basically waste the setting and so I think it would be the hardest Great Tale to do both loyally and well.
Farmer Giles of Ham, maybe?I also loved Colbert's guessing game of trying to figure out which book Cox supposedly read by Tolkien that wasn't The Lord of the Rings and seems to think it was The Silmarillion. The fact he called it a nice story (emphasis on the singular) makes me think it wasn't that book.
Honestly, I suspect it was The Hobbit, because it's short enough and well-known enough that Cox would've have read it, isolated enough for him not to realize it was directly involved with Lord of the Rings, and Colbert would've thought Cox thought it was part of it and didn't think other's error in assumption.
Or am I overthinking it?
Granted…. although, if you’d asked me 10-years ago if we’d ever get Middle-earth tv series based on the LOTRs appendices and other supporting writings from Tolkien - e.g. The Rings of Power - I would have not thought it likely…
…and yet, here we are now.
And I continue to dream of further adaptations yet to be made…
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First taste of the movie's music.
New trailer.
Love the music box rendition of the Rohan theme.
Love the music box rendition of the Rohan theme.
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Honestly, I'm much more excited about this film than I ever was (and currently) about Rings of Power.
Or even the Gollum movie, if I'm being completely honest.
I agree with that notion. I'll watch it for Andy Serkis but I wouldn't say I'm super excited about it.Or even the Gollum movie, if I'm being completely honest.
This does look pretty cool, but I'm still really enjoying and looking forward to more Rings of Power.
Though I will admit, I'm not sure what to make of the Gollum movie at this point. Of all of the possible LOTR spin-off movie ideas, that does seem like kind of an odd one to start with.
Though I will admit, I'm not sure what to make of the Gollum movie at this point. Of all of the possible LOTR spin-off movie ideas, that does seem like kind of an odd one to start with.
Has potential.
