Its very boring, the films are too long and i have originally no idea how some people can have a yearly lotr marathon.
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I kinda like and hate you at the same time XD
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Well that is an unpopular opinion. I think I might watch the extended editions this weekend now that you brought it up. Cheers!
Dude ROTK has like a whole hour of movie after the final battle lmao at some point it’s ridiculous
Exactly. Being close to pissing myself in the cinema due to the incessant false summit endings soured that film a bit. Rewatching the extended version at home was amazing though.
fades to black Oh that seems like kindof a weird place to end, just stuck on a rock in the lava field.
fades to black Oh okay, so it was just a little transition. Yeah makes sense for aragorn to be king.
fades to black Alright, this is getting weird. Sam and Frodo are back in the Shire and Sam’s going to ask this girl out now?
fades to black Jesus, I get it okay. Frodo is headed off to the undying lands, cool.
That’s how the books actually go tbf.
The ring is destroyed like halfway through the last book. Tolkien was really into worldbuilding, and he refused to let the ring be the end of it. He had to ramble for another half a book about the fallout afterwards. Aragon getting crowned king, Frodo getting banished to the Shadow Realm, some more politicking in Rivendell, and I think we hear a little bit about the elves too?
I’m also not a fan of the series, FWIW. I read the books. Gave them a fair chance. And fucking hated every minute of it, because I kept expecting it to get better. Because everyone loses their shit over it, so it has to get good eventually, right? I’m a massive fantasy nerd, but LOTR is just a slog.
He did the same thing with The Hobbit. Smaug dies like three quarters of the way through the book, and he doesn’t even get killed by one of the characters that we’ve been following for the entire fucking book. The main characters just sort of wait for him to leave the lair, then rummage through his pile of gold once he’s gone.
Now this is unpopular.
May god have mercy on your soul. LotR memes was one of the first communities to migrate over.
*applauds harder
Thank you friend.
Now that’s an unpopular opinion! I disagree, well done.
Thank you
It’s been my experience that LOTR is something you either like or dislike.
LOTR is great. It’s pretty much the template of every single fantasy story written since the 20th century.
The Peter Jackson films are probably the best adaptation of any novel ever made, but with as long as they are, they’re TikTok videos compared to the books in the universe. Know that if you ever read any of them (the Hobbit is a great and short start btw), those fantasy tropes you see are coming straight from the source. Those greedy dwarves obsessed with gold were invented by Tolkien’s creative (and somewhat antisemitic) brain.
…btw, I assume you’re referring to the original Peter Jackson films. Saying that you don’t like the Hobbit film trilogy is not an unpopular opinion at all. In that case, I think the films were longer than the book lol
They are beautifully shot, well acted, travel porn movies.
I cant really do anything with nice scenery, my sensory overloadet teenager brain with a 5 seconds attention spann is bored quickly
Man, all the comments in here about the “boring” songs and poetry … do yourself a favour and don’t ever even consider reading works like, oh, I don’t know, practically anything by Goethe, Schiller, or Shakespeare. Or from the other side of the world, the novel A Dream of Red Mansions. Or that Indian epic Mahabharata.
They’re not for short attention spans.
