Yes.

uh, yes.

Yes. Be a man and marathon all three extended editions back to back.

Yes. Get the three extended editions and watch them all. I loved them so much I watched them again with a friend shortly after I finished them.

its a good way to spend 10 hours

Fellowship of the Ring is one of the greatest movies ever made.

Second one kind of drags.

>>5837101
>>5837103

Yes. Watch the Extended Editions.

they're fucking awesome...

Pretty epic when saruman gets his shit wrecked by a bunch of trees.

actually, no.
Don't waste your time OP.

>>5837114

Don't all second movies in trilogies drag on?

>>5837138
10 posts before someone said something negative. Good work /tv/. I think we've set a record.

>>5837134
that's a really great "FUCK YEAH!" scene.

>>5837140
about 3 and a half hours I think

>>5837140

Empire Strikes Back called, it's at your house fucking your mother.

the books are a fucking headache.

most people love the films and i can appreciate why and that they're well-made.

for me though the first one takes too long to get going, the middle one seems overlong and the last one never seems to fucking end.

i like the battles though.

LOTR defines the word epic

Lord of the Rings is the best trilogy ever.

My uncle or something got me a books for Christmas a long ass time ago and I couldn't read them, because they weren't half as awesome as the movies were. They were like a 0.1 on the awesomeness-richter scale.

>>5837140

Empire Strikes Back? Back to the Future Part II?

I'm in the minority when I say no, they're boring and kinda shitty. By the end, I didn't care about any of the characters. The world that was created didn't have any sense of cohesion or genuine community, which led to a lack of tension concerning its fate. The large city didn't feel anything like a genuine metropolis which defused the battle scenes there. It was executed very well in terms of cinematography, costume and so forth, but for me those apsects pale in comparison to engaging characters and a the creation of a convincing and enveloping setting. Many of the resolutions to the plot draw very little from what has come before and so are not terribly satisfying. No, I'm really not trolling.

Godfather part 2 is pretty damn good.

For big blockbuster movies, there about as good as they come. I'm usually not a big fan of fantasy films, or trilogies in general, but this one is just brilliantly made.

>>5837177
>the books are a fucking headache.
Agreed. They were written in the 50's, but they read like they were written in the 18th century. Not to mention it takes Tolkien 2 paragraphs to say what most authors can say in a single sentence.

>>5837177
>and the last one never seems to fucking end.

well the extended edition is more than four hours long.

>>5837221
*they're

It's pretty sad that there aren't more fantasy movies like these aimed at "adults".

>>5837189
Definitely. LOTR is the best epic tale in the world of film.

>>5837230

And there's too much damn singing.

The only good Lord of the Rings movie.

>>5837230
I got all of the books about a year ago. The Hobbit was included. I read The Hobbit first and actually enjoyed it for what it was. I started The Fellowship and it really drags on in the beginning. I've been "reading" it for about a month or two now. I'm at the part where they meet Aragorn (Stider) at the inn, and I'm almost halfway through it seems. Tolkien spends entirely too much time describing the geography and environment. He'll spend eight pages describing hills and trees. It's overkill.

>>5837251

Don't be hatin' Tom Bombadil

>>5837213
I kind of agree, but I think those things only really apply to the final film. It was a weak conclusion to the tale.

>>5837213
>large city didn't feel anything like a genuine metropolis

To be fair, it wasn't supposed to be a city but a fortress, if I read the book correctly. The ruins by the river was the city in more peaceful times.

>>5837296
well the world was the reason for him to write the books.
First he created the culture, geography language etc, then he filled it with a story.

You people are pathetic. I managed to read the books when I was like 12.

>>5837295

Story?

>>5837243
I'd say it's second only to 2001 (not trolling, btw).

>>5837335

Correct. Minas Tirith was the western outpost guarding the city of Osgiliath. It was a stronghold and the king's summer home, not a city. It was originally designed as a gigantic palace/castle/mausoleum/library. When Osgiliath fell ~1500 years before LotR, the king moved to Minas Tirith permanently and Osgiliath began to collapse. A lot of the population picked up and moved to Minas Tirith, so there was basically a decent-sized city living inside what was supposed to be a garrison for only a few thousand men.

>>5837295
wat

>>5837388
>implying that you should have to "manage" to read something for pleasure

>>5837395
Fan film that got a lot of press for high production values and a budget of $5000.
>http://thehuntforgollum.com/
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H09xnhlCQU

They also have another movie, a prequel called Born of Hope coming out on December 1st.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rOT4IgyGJI

>>5837296

Not really - he's a descriptive, flowery writer, whose own particular style seems to come from the Old World poems, and probably the best of that kind of writing. Similarly, if you like punchy descriptions and dialogue, there are other writers who can fill that void.

>>5837295
I hope the chick in the upper left is supposed to be some witch and not Arwen

>>5837571

oh god I know effort rite?

fuck that.

>>5837593
It's about Aragorn's parents
http://www.bornofhope.com/

>>5837571

>80x79

>>5837593
>>5837295
I love how ugly non-famous people are

>>5837725

>>5837953
why does he have short hair? I don't recall any characters male or female with short hair in LotR.

if you like "fantasy" sure

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hated the book series. I read The Hobbit and it was great, and then I started Fellowship and jesus christ, it dragged on and on, characters were too far out there for me to connect with, 10 pages describing an average forest, funny type of english used that while easily read still had a bit of a style to it that I couldn't get into, and basically nothing happens for the first 100 pages or whatever. I had to stop once they got to the singing bear man.

But the movies fucking rocked.

>>5838124

Agreed. The Hobbit was a good read, but I really couldn't get through the others. I could deal with the songs, but it just became too much. I kinda hate myself for it too.

But yeah, movies are unbelievably epic, very entertaining, worth 12 hours, and most importantly quotable as shit.

i lol @ this thread because i know there a lot of crazy tolkien purists out there on the internet who would be fucking raging so hard reading these posts

>>5838233

Hey, if they prefer walking through mud (reading the LOTR books) while we prefer walking through air (reading a book that isn't convoluted as fuck) then more power to them.

>>5838358
Tolkien isn't convoluted. The story just moves slowly. Anyway, the books pick up after the council of Elrond but I wouldn't bother reading it if you can't make it to that point in the first place.

>>5838423

Well it is a bit convoluted, you have to admit it. And yeah, it moves way too slowly, and what we get when you forget how slowly it took to get there, is sub par by fantasy standards imo. I see it like this, back then this was probably an amazing world with great adventures and all that, but since then, other books and movies have taken a hint from LOTR and added onto it, so someone reading it for the first time today would be spoiled by more flashy and fantastic fantasy (me), and the story here will feel like it's from a different and slower time. I mean, even just the difference between the books and the movies is huge, not just in terms of the changes made to the story, but the way the characters speak and act, the way the world is shown to us, the way the story plays it, it's done in a much better way (again, imo).

But maybe someday I'll sit down and read the books and try to enjoy them for what they are rather than what I expected them to be after watching the films.

short answer: no

long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooo

Yes

>>5838565

LOTR Extended Edition answer : nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo FADE TO BLACK

NO WAIT, THAT WASN'T THE ENDING oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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let me introduce you to a character. She's an elf. As all eleves, she is perfectly beautiful. Great description, I know. Now, some elves live in trees. Let me describe those trees for you...

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10 hours later..

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That's what the trees are like.

Now that you know, and now that I've mentioned a few elvish characters that won't appear in this story anymore but all have similar names so that after my tree descriptions you won't exactly know WHICH charcters I am refering to during the story, here's a few more pages about what the trees look like.

>>5838611

bahahaha

As one who enjoys Hemingway as well as Tolkien, I can admit that the latter definitely isn't for everyone. It is poetic at times (which i normally wouldn't enjoy), but his descriptions and effort really immerse you into Middle Earth. He created a whole world and language for shit's sake, and I intend to pick up The Similarion when I have the time.

>>5837307

>>5837388
Same here, I read and enjoyed the books in early middle school. Descriptive imagery was on of the main reasons I loved them.

>>5838611
This describes the books perfectly. The material is great but it's just overloaded with useless information.

>Not to mention it takes Tolkien 2 paragraphs to say what most authors can say in a single sentence.

Fuck I raged so hard. I know this thread is all trolling but still, there are some retards out there who really think this.

You're better off reading the books.

Storyline-wise: It's good

Film-wise: Hell-fucking-no. That acting is absolutely terrible. The dialogue is worse. And the special effects are sub-par CGI bullshit at best. Peter Jackson should die in a fire for this monstrosity for following George Lucas' stream of failure in the 90s.

>>5839391
they think it because it's true.

>>5839422
But it's not. In 2 paragraphs he doesnt just say what happens, he gives atmosphere & depth. The Olde english gives you the feeling of reading something biblical. The descriptions & stories show you that the world actually exists, and isnt just an artificial background.

>>5839474
There's giving atmosphere and depth, and then there's what Tolkien does, which goes far beyond that. Too far.

>>5839474

It's like the difference between a game with a background that is just an image, and a game with a rendered background that is blocked off by an invisible wall. Either way, shit sucks.

And besides that, I don't want to read 2 paragraphs every page on the invisible walled off background when there's plenty of shit going on in the foreground.

>>5837213
We have a cave troll.

>hurrrrf durrrrf tolken sux d00dz 2 much reeden lol imma reed sum rbort jrden nao lol DISCWULD EPIN EPIN !!!11 XDDDDDDD SO FUN E N KUL RANDUM

>>5839474

but everyone nowadays has the attention span of an eight year old with ADD and Pixie Stix

>Are the movies worth sitting through?

Are you a pathetic manchild that loves shitty half-assed fantasy and drawn-out boring subtle undertones of homoerotic hobbits? If so then yes

>>5839541
Listen buddy, attention span has nothing to do with it. I've read Gone With The Wind, Moby Dick, Ulysses, hell I even read all of my college history textbooks from cover to cover, just for fun. And yet I could never finish LOTR. Tolkien's writing style just bores me, let's leave it at that.

>>5838233
lol, looks like they've arrived

Not really. I tried 3 times now, but never could stay sit watching any of the 3.
Pace is too slow, too much uninteresting blah blah, characters are bad so are the actors playing them.. overall these movies feel "unnatural"...
It's like harry potter, only worse because too long.

>>5839541
this has nothing to do with attention span. Tolkien and the movies are just bad. End of story.

>>5839902
More shit happens in willow in 1:40 than in LOTR in 10 hours.
/fact