So pj and andy serkis are making a gollum movie. I'm not sure what to think of this. Especially since it will be called the hunt for gollum. Which means it will have aragorn, gandalf and possibly legolas, thranduil, arwen and elrond? What are your thoughts on this?
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Book Faramir: Ah yes We shall have food, you can sleep, here we made up little cots for you
Movie Faramir: Fuck you and your weird cat give me the ring
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And the worst is he is the only one with accurate hair. But still not close tithe mighty beautiful unearthly being tolkien had in mind. He is not deciving anyone that way. The 5 second cut out footage of annatarv in return of the king was beyond beauty.
So we have to face another season of that rings of power shit fanfic? Now with even more ridiculous hairstyles like gil galad with a braid?
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So we have to face another season of that rings of power shit fanfic? Now with even more ridiculous hairstyles like gil galad with a braid?
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So sad news. Rest in peace Bernard Hill. 😞🙏
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In light of the sad news about Bernard Hill, I feel like we should take a moment to really appreciate the acting performances in the LOTR trilogy. The fact that none of the cast got Academy Awards is well-known and I think even now the sheer visual spectacle of the trilogy can overshadow everything else, but the performances were SO crucial to what made the films great.
It’s easy to take the success of the movies for granted now, but that was never a guarantee. Aside from the practical aspects of portraying such an epic fantasy onscreen, the series is peppered with dialogue that is fine on the page but unbelievably difficult to deliver. As Harrison Ford famously remarked to George Lucas re Star Wars “You can write this stuff, but you can’t say it.”
From Gandalf’s “To the Bridge of Khazad-Dum!” to Elrond’s “It must be cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came!” it would be so easy for the whole thing to collapse into farce. The only reason it doesn’t, is because of the talent and conviction of the actors.
Bernard Hill was tasked with one of the most objectively ridiculous lines in the entire trilogy. “The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time!” And he delivered. BOY, did he deliver. He gave it all the gravitas and emotional weight of Shakespeare, he made it truly rousing instead of ridiculous, he took the audience with him to that moment, that place, right into Middle Earth with its people and its history, and made it REAL.
And for that, I thank and salute him. RIP, sir. Go now to the halls of your fathers. You earned it.
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I recently watched the audiocommentary of the two towers again and he said in it that he met a woman in the aftermath of the irish terror attacks. Her son was a victim of it and she said that line to him. And he was so deeply moved by it that he took that line in the movie.
Bernard Hill said once that he came up with the line, “No parent should have to bury their child.” And, no, it’s not canonical, but it’s absolutely what the story needed. It’s what the character needed. Hell, it’s what we needed. It’s a better and more compelling and more relatable and more moving and more empathetic film for having that emotion expressed. It was such a simple idea, but such an important one. And we needed him to get it. May the simbelmynë always bloom on your place of rest, Mr. Hill.
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Had a debate with a friend and now I gotta know
please reblog for larger sample size, my friend bet me no one would say Gimli and I wanna prove her wrong
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Today, we mourn Bernard Hill (King Theoden). May he rest among the halls of his father 😔
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