BIG, EARLY NEWS: Amazon buying LOTR to make a Series

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8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O

OHHHHH WOW

OMG this makes me soooooo happy :biggrin: Seriously??? Far freaking out .. this is awesome news .. I fricking hope they make it GOOOOD

HOW TOTALLY AWESOME

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Meh.

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Meh?????? Meh???? 8O

Lord of the Rings is not ... meh? πŸ™„
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I'll let you know once it's known how much they have butchered it...

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:( :cry:

oh god my mind didnt even go there ..

Ill never forgive Jackson for glossing over the burial bier of Bormir .. I wept buckets reading how the swords of his enemies were placed under his feet, the horn of gondor across his chest etc.. Such a powerful scene .. and I sobbed and sobbed it touched me so much .. then the movie .. stuck him in a kayak and shoved him down the Anduin :cry:

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Skyweir wrote:Ill never forgive Jackson for glossing over the burial bier of Bormir ..
I'll never forgive you for glossing over the second "o" in "Boromir". :cry: :cry:
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Well said, wf! Well said, indeed!





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My mind always goes there. :lol:

Canon purist and all... :D

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typos not permitted in semi polite company I see ;) :P
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Uh, what? :D

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Like I intentionally spelt Boromir wrong duh? πŸ™„

Tis a thing a LOTRs fan would not do intentionally .. and yeah still upset about the burial bier thing .. :P
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:lol: Oh, I'd already forgotten about that. :D I make it a rule to (almost) never point out spelling or grammar errors (unless it's funny). Everybody makes mistakes.

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Skyweir wrote:Tis a thing a LOTRs fan would not do intentionally .. and yeah still upset about the burial bier thing .. :P
So you still won't take the hint and give PJ the same slack that you ask for yourself ...
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Nope .. cos the difference is that HE did what HE did intentionally ;) :P

Look dont get me wrong .. I love the movies and Jackson did an awesome job cinematising LOTRs .. totally. And the casting top notch .. love Blanchett's Galadriel .. like who woundnt .. even Blooms Legolas, etc etc .. but this was one scene .. but one powerful scene .. with powerful imagery and it was no mistake that Tolkien invested in that imagery. It was punch you in the gut moving .. and the scene was cut.

The rest of the movie series beyond brilliant .. and Im not a purist just an average LOTRs lover .. and that broke my heart .. :lol: a little ..
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I think Jackson would have made a 27 hour movie and included everything if he could have. So I don't blame him for stuff he had to leave out. It may have been "intentional" but it wasn't by choice.

Which ... as he pulls mightily on that cable labelled "OT" ... is not going to be so much an issue for a series, for which I am excited.
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Im excited too Wayfriend :biggrin: sounds like and hopefully will be awesome.

Id be ok with a 27hr movie ;) :lol:

My criticisms wouldnt have added more than a few seconds to the overall time of the movie ;) I know Im like a dog with a bone with this one. The scene was just sooo powerful in the reading .. and was a key progression in the story for me.

But thank goodness I dont get to make those decisions huh? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Ok Ill let it go now ;) :P

Roll on the telly series I say :LOLS:
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The fandom just experienced a collective geekgasm as Amazon tweeted a map of Middle Earth ... On 3.7.19 (the 3, the 7, the 9, and the 1, get it?) ... With the isle of .... Numenor.

Everyone is speculating heavily.

The Fall of Nemenor.

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