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Is the film "Lord Of The Rings" racist?

Is the film "Lord Of The Rings" racist?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 4.8%
  • No

    Votes: 51 81.0%
  • It's prophetic

    Votes: 2 3.2%
  • Idk

    Votes: 7 11.1%

  • Total voters
    63
So, people, what do you think? :)
What's your feeling about that? :peace

Who cares, if you enjoy it watch it, if you don't, don't. Regardless, I am sure Lord of the Rings is no D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation."
 
Best LOTR commentary ever.

 
Hmmm. I thought in the book the key player at the river was an elf prince who never appears again.


Glorfindel ? He turns white with glowing power and battles them but the river was Elrond. As Gandalf explains it to Frodo when he wakes up that the realm of Rivendale is Elronds domaine and he did it but that Gandalf made the "nice touch" of adding the horses.
 
It all depends... Gothmog was the Captain of the Balrogs and a bad ass.

How in the world do you keep all those names straight? I have a hard time remember regular people names, never mind names like balrog and gothmog.
 
How in the world do you keep all those names straight? I have a hard time remember regular people names, never mind names like balrog and gothmog.

I had to look up Gothmog's name though I did know about him since I read about him in the first book.
 
I agree to a point. When he omits tons of stuff and then makes up stuff that is what I don't like. Helm's Deep was so long. Didn't need to be. Could have shortened it and added other things instead. Making Pippen freak out with the Glass Ball thing (can't remember right now) that glowed was lame. Having Aragorn have this made up conversation with the dead king was lame. Having Pippen light the signal fire when that never happened was lame. Having the King of Rohan make that incredibly long and idiotic speech at Helm's Deep was lame. It is like King went out of his way to screw with the books.


Read Hobbit and LOTR as a young teenager, read the Silmarillion in my later teens, read some of his other books too. Been "into it" for going-on four decades... and I loved the movies.


Yes, a certain license was taken... there's no way around that really. Film is not text, text is not film. Most of the changes he made, IMO made for a BETTER set of films that may not have been verbatim-true to the books but captured the essence of them quite well.


Jury still out on the Hobbit movies though.
 
Arwen rising the water was a good scene but in the novels it was Elrond who made the river rise from back in Rivendale and it was Gandalf that added the galloping horses look...

I really enjoyed the movies, though. Not many movies are exactly like the book an author has written. :mrgreen:

Greetings, Bodhisattva. :2wave:
 
Glorfindel ? He turns white with glowing power and battles them but the river was Elrond. As Gandalf explains it to Frodo when he wakes up that the realm of Rivendale is Elronds domaine and he did it but that Gandalf made the "nice touch" of adding the horses.

OK. Thanks.
 
Read Hobbit and LOTR as a young teenager, read the Silmarillion in my later teens, read some of his other books too. Been "into it" for going-on four decades... and I loved the movies.


Yes, a certain license was taken... there's no way around that really. Film is not text, text is not film. Most of the changes he made, IMO made for a BETTER set of films that may not have been verbatim-true to the books but captured the essence of them quite well.


Jury still out on the Hobbit movies though.

I like the Hobbit first movie... didn't like the ridiculousness of the Orc Captain being so huge and fat OR all the running and battling on the bridges... OR the Mountain Troll battle... that was retarded.
 
I really enjoyed the movies, though. Not many movies are exactly like the book an author has written. :mrgreen:

Greetings, Bodhisattva. :2wave:

I know. I am just having a hissy fit about it right now.
 
Thanks polgara! I only saw the first, but I'll have to make sure and see the other two. :)

T think you'll enjoy them. They've got some interesting women in them! :mrgreen:

Greetings, ChrisL. :2wave:
 
T think you'll enjoy them. They've got some interesting women in them! :mrgreen:

Greetings, ChrisL. :2wave:

Greetings polgara! :2wave: Thanks for the recommendation.
 
Read Hobbit and LOTR as a young teenager, read the Silmarillion in my later teens, read some of his other books too. Been "into it" for going-on four decades... and I loved the movies.


Yes, a certain license was taken... there's no way around that really. Film is not text, text is not film. Most of the changes he made, IMO made for a BETTER set of films that may not have been verbatim-true to the books but captured the essence of them quite well.


Jury still out on the Hobbit movies though.

Greetings, Goshin. :2wave:

Haven't seen the Hobbit movies yet. You didn't like?
 
Don't think it's particularly intentional that LOTR featured almost no people of colour.

They filmed in New Zealand, what were they going to do?

Ship 100's of black people over for the sake of racial representation?

They could have used black face like the way Hollywood use to do it.
 
They could have used black face like the way Hollywood use to do it.

For a demonstration of life in America before racial sensitivity was a thing, watch The Marx Brothers at the Circus.
 
Yes, a certain license was taken... there's no way around that really. Film is not text, text is not film. Most of the changes he made, IMO made for a BETTER set of films that may not have been verbatim-true to the books but captured the essence of them quite well.

I disagree. I wish the movie had used the eight page description of the scratches on the back of a chair in one of the taverns. That really needed its own scene.
 
How in the world do you keep all those names straight? I have a hard time remember regular people names, never mind names like balrog and gothmog.

Technically, Gothmog was captain of the Balrogs. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse though. :lol:
 
T think you'll enjoy them. They've got some interesting women in them! :mrgreen:

Greetings, ChrisL. :2wave:

The last one, The Return of the King, was by far the best of the three.

I still get a bit misty eyed at the end, embarassed as I may be to admit it. :lol:
 
The last one, The Return of the King, was by far the best of the three.

I still get a bit misty eyed at the end, embarassed as I may be to admit it. :lol:

I loved that one too, except I was getting a little antsy by the sixth ending.
 
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