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[paontaure]

Epic duels from LOTR, original art in graphite, ink and watercolor.

2018-2023 © Paontaure

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[tolkienillustrations]

Gandalf and the Balrog by Matthew Stewart

#LOTR #Tolkien #Gandalf #Gandalf vs the Balrog #Balrogs #Matthew Stewart

[ciccerone]

Theodora Capat

#CapatDaniela #Theodora Capat #art vs artist #lord of the rings #lord of the rings fanart #lotr #lotr fanart #traditional painting #traditional illustration #poster art #🎨 #Balrog #fantasy art #gandalf #2d art #set

[velvet4510]

#lotr #jrr tolkien #lotr books #lord of the rings #lotr movies #lotr book vs film #tolkien legendarium #lotr gandalf #balrog #maiar #ainur #gandalf #moria #lotr fotr #the fellowship of the ring #lotr poll

[beemovieerotica]

GANDALF WOMAN?

#the trailer doesnt even show a single woman its just gandalf vs the balrog 😭😭 #does netflix think he's a woman because of his gigantic tits??? #also I highly recommend Crash Landing on You it's an excellent show

[tomoleary]

Charles Vess - Lord of the Rings, Gandalf vs. the Balrog (1977)

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[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Gandalf vs The Balrog by Magali Villeneuve

#Magic the Gathering #MtG #Universe Beyond #Lord of the Rings #Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth #Gandalf vs the Balrog #LotR #Fantasy #Art #Magali Villeneuve

[calim3ro]

Gandalf VS Balrog

#gif #gifs #my gif #calim3ro #lord of the rings #gandalf #balrog #lotr

[theninjacat100]

Gandalf Vs Book Accurate Balrog

Any advice for improvement?

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[pulpsandcomics2]

Gandalf vs Balrog by Rafael Falconi

#gandolf #balrog #the lord of the rings

[johnny-dynamo]

Gandalf vs. Balrog by Minjun Kim

[nerdypixel]

I will do all of these eventually, I just need to start with one.

More information under the cut

Gunpowder Tim vs. The Moonkaiser project: I want to illustrate specific parts of this song and make it into a "short" comic. (knowing myself this will be anything but short) It will take a lot of time and patience on my end, but I think it could be cool and I can learn a bunch about lighting.

Tma Fanart: I have a list that is continuously expanding and growing and I keep adding ideas. My sketchbook is already more than half full and I started it in October. I want to finish this until April and move on to the next thing/sketchbook.

Hello from the hallowoods is a podcast that is like a warm blanket to me, but I keep getting lost with the huge amount of characters so drawing the main ones might be a good idea to keep track of everything. Also everyone is queer and I love that. Quite an opportunity to get better at drawing old people.

My own comic: to be completely honest... I'm having two ideas. One is about a witch (cliché I know, but she is really cool, fighting for nature against industrialization and greed) there is basically a war happening (now that I think about it, it's a bit like Princess Mononoke) and the other one is about a badass warrior princess with dinosaurs and Steampunk elements and floating islands (that will be a headache to draw).

Elias, Peter and Simon on weed are a fun idea someone on a Discord server gave me. It's a self contained little story that hopefully only takes a few panels to tell.

The Lord of the Rings painting I want to do for my brother is the fight Gandalf against the Balrog. I want to really make it cool with perspective and smoke and colours and... I probably should do that first, because it was supposed to be his Christmas gift, but I have to paint that traditionally and I suck at that... Drawing is fine, but painting... Well, I have to try.

#Poll #Big projects #tma #the magnus archives #gunpowder tim #gunpowder tim vs the moon kaiser #the mechanisms #lord of the rings #gandalf #hello from the hallowoods #hfth

[theworldsoftolkein]

Gandalf vs Balrog - by Jenny is Drawing

Gandalf wished he'd worn that fire armour..

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[valoniaart]

Gandalf vs Balrog

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[velvet4510]

let’s talk about LOTR book vs. movie differences.

Overall, I prefer the book over the movies. The book just has even more depth, even more great character moments, and of course, all the lore (particularly the appendices) that could never be squeezed into a film, even a film trilogy.

The movies were perfectly cast - every actor was born to play their respective role - with magnificent direction, music, cinematography, and SFX. But the script has many problems when compared to the book.

These are, IMO, the worst changes that the films made (in no particular order):

Far too much emphasis on action/battle scenes. Helm’s Deep is 1 chapter long in the book but the equivalent of at least 5 chapters long in the movie. Ridiculous. LOTR has action scenes, but it is not an action story.

Frodo sending Sam away and going into Shelob’s lair without him. Everything about this added scene is an absolute atrocity. Enough said.

The entire butchering of Faramir. It’s really quite tragic. For the sake of drama, the films stripped Faramir of everything that makes him the incredible character that he is in the book.

Deleting the Scouring of the Shire. I get why (pacing), but it’s the true climax to the hobbits’ storyline and character arcs, and is just a better ending IMO.

Not including any of Frodo’s moments of impressive strength from the book (saving his friends from the Barrow-wight, fighting back against the Nazgûl at Weathertop, defying the Nazgûl at the ford, saving Boromir from a troll in Moria, and choosing all by himself to go to Mordor alone). He has so many bad*ss moments in the book that Elijah Wood would’ve nailed, but the movies made him too helpless and didn’t give a true talent like Elijah nearly as much to work with. (Elijah himself, though, is absolute perfection in the role, and it pains me to think how many great moments from the book he was robbed of.)

Cutting Tolkien’s beautiful songs, especially the “Man in the Moon” from the Prancing Pony. Why couldn’t the film have been part-musical???

Gandalf’s fall looks like he just…lets go. For some reason. In the book, the Balrog’s whip drags him down immediately, but onscreen he grabs onto the cliff and then lets go himself. Makes no sense.

All the stupid hamfisted foreshadowing of Boromir’s attempted theft of the Ring. The script bashes it over our heads, especially in Galadriel’s scene, and I have no idea why any of this was added. Why not just show Boromir glancing at Frodo and the Ring several times, like the book describes? That’s all that was needed.

Making so many jokes at Gimli’s expense because of his height and reducing him to mere comic relief. In the book his character is treated with dignity and has such depth.

Reducing Faramir and Éowyn’s phenomenal love story to a single 30-second scene. Screw pacing, those two deserved a full half hour (at the very least) of screentime dedicated to just them.

The butchering of Tolkien’s point about the Ring’s power by making Isildur’s failure seem like a personal flaw, to the point where it’s the reason Aragorn doesn’t want to be king. A refusal to destroy the Ring isn’t about the Ring-bearer’s own internal character; it’s about how the Ring’s power is absolute and no mortal has a chance of directly destroying it. Elrond, Gandalf, Aragorn, et. al. are fully aware of this in Tolkien’s canon. This change makes it seem like there’s something wrong with Isildur and Frodo specifically for not destroying the Ring.

Cutting the pivotal moment of Sam’s entire character arc where he takes the Ring from Frodo’s body, decides to try to continue the Quest alone, and then wears the Ring to hide from the Orcs. The movies just cut all of this critical content just for the sake of a surprise reveal of “omg Sam’s got the Ring!”

Deleting the CRUCIAL scene where Frodo curses Gollum outside the Cracks of Doom. The whole point of Gollum’s fall is that it’s not caused by a physical struggle between him and Frodo (as the movie portrays), but rather by his own actions, breaking his oath to Frodo and ignoring the warning within Frodo’s curse. The movie instead makes it into the climax of a typical action film.

Apparently this doesn’t bother most fans, but it most certainly bothers me: reducing Rosie to distant eye candy for Sam who he’s never talked to. In the book their relationship is so much more substantial because they grew up together and know each other inside & out and Sam’s love for her actually feels real. In the movies, the relationship just feels so shallow.

Referring to Frodo’s ride to Valinor as “the last ship to leave Middle-Earth.” A flat-out lie when you know Tolkien’s canon, completely ignoring the fact that Sam will be allowed to sail West eventually and they will reunite. They don’t even include Frodo’s line “your time may come, Sam.”

Sam, Rosie, and their children apparently not living in Bag End at the end. One of the book’s most beautiful developments is that after years of being too big for bachelors, Frodo’s generous parting gift to Sam finally enables Bag End to be a family home. It shocks me that the trilogy ends on a closeup of a random yellow hobbit-hole door instead of Bag End’s iconic green door.

On the other hand, there are a few book-to-film changes that I really like:

Arwen helping Frodo at the Ford instead of Glorfindel. I just love the idea of giving Arwen something important to do in the actual narrative, besides just being Aragorn’s wife. At the same time, as I said, I feel like the way the film did it made Frodo too helpless. My ideal version would be a mix of the two: Arwen meets the travellers in Glorfindel’s place but then sends Frodo off on her horse by himself, like Glorfindel does.

Boromir training and playing with Merry & Pippin.

Boromir carrying Frodo out of Moria.

“Give them a moment, for pity’s sake!”

Boromir saying “they took the little ones” instead of “they took the halflings.”

My favorite of all of the screenwriters’ additions that aren’t in the book is the immortal “Roast chicken” exchange.

Giving Théoden a sadder, more realistic reaction to his only child’s death.

Just giving Éowyn more screen time and showing why she falls in love with Aragorn. In the book, she only talks to him a few times and her love for him feels quite rushed; one of the book’s few flaws, in my mind.

Pippin being the one to directly save Faramir by jumping onto the pyre and rolling him off of it to safety.

Denethor realizing too late that Faramir is alive; a heartbreaking moment.

Théoden getting to see that Éowyn is the one who saved him and say a proper goodbye to her. It’s so unsatisfying in the book how he never knows she was there; I much prefer how Éowyn in the movie gets that moment of closure with her beloved uncle.

“I can carry you!” is the scene with the greatest page-to-screen adaptation, hands down. Everything from the acting to the gut-wrenching addition of “do you remember the Shire?” to the music is flawless. Makes me choke up every single time without fail.

The Ring lingering on the lava’s surface, trying to survive, and only melting when Frodo chooses Sam over it. Absolutely phenomenal.

Frodo saying “I’m glad to be with you” to Sam on Mt. Doom instead of “I’m glad you’re with me.”

“You bow to no one.”

Expanding the timeline of Frodo’s last months in the Shire after their return from 2 years to 4 years. I love Jackson for gifting Frodo more time in the Shire before his departure than Tolkien gave him.

I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts about their favorite and least favorite book-to-film changes!

#lotr #jrr tolkien #lotr books #lotr movies #lotr book vs film #lord of the rings

[nyenyerle]

gandalf vs the balrog. eowyn whose death wish led her to face the nazgul. we could imagine earendil slaying ancalagon like this. or maybe the clearest parallel would be frodo.

Vingilot is Eärendil’s choice.

#sorry lazy posting bc im tired and unwell af