You be the Director

Lotesse · 04-27-2005, 07:08 PM

I have an idea. What if you could have helped PJ direct the films, inputting your own knowledge and personal understanding of the books and of the story's premise? As co-director, you could choose what characters from the books would be depicted, and how they'd be played, (add new actors for new portrayals; i.e. who'd play Tom Bombadil, or, how could Eomer or Faramir have been developed differently, etcetera? This is the kind of stuff I think about while I'm busy procrastinating my day away...

Telcontar_Dunedain · 04-28-2005, 01:41 PM

I'd have kept the Grey Company and the Son's of Elrond. I think that showing that there was more than one of Aragorn's kind. This would also show more depth to Aragorn's charcter.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 04-28-2005, 04:38 PM

i would have done it exactly as the books, and included the hobbit, and made it an immensely long film, with everything preserved as it should have been

Lotesse · 04-28-2005, 08:39 PM

YES!!! That would, of course, be utterly fantastic, but what studio would back and budget such an enormous undertaking? Of all the stuff I dis PJ for, I gotta give him props for managing to fit in what he did into reasonably lengthed film segments, although it's infuriating that he wasted so much precious film-time on stuff like useless lines ("They're coming", with the far off drum beats growing closer in the minesa of Moria, or pretty much anything given to poor Peter Pan-I mean, Legolas to say). I'd make the Orcs more faceted, more interesting and unique, less cartoonish, more genuinely gritty-evil, etcetera. Their get-ups were pretty well done, except for Gothmog (wtf?!) but they were portrayed as far too easy to figure out and to annihilate.
I'd leave the Ents as is, but I would give the whole Ents-in-Fangorn incident at least 15-20 minutes, and tell their story complete with their living arrangements. Hey, speaking of Ents, not to get off topic, but is there anyone out there who thinks maybe some of the lost Entwives wandered up north and were kicking it in the forests around the Shire and Grey Havens area?

Manveru · 04-28-2005, 10:01 PM

thats one of the great mysteries of life. but isnt 'old man willow' actually an 'old man'? i guess he could just be a really manly entwife

Lotesse · 04-29-2005, 12:05 AM

Old man willow ... perhaps "he" was, like you say, a manly entwife, like-maybe she was tremendously cranky because it had been so long since she'd, er, "been with" an Ent, plus she had no idea where all her other entwife friends had taken off to, so all she could think of to do to pass the time was to pick on whomever happened to pass by... Tolkien himself says mysteriously that even he doesn't know where the entwives ended up going, or what became of them. It's fun to think about, anyway.

04-27-2005, 07:08 PM	#1
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	You be the Director I have an idea. What if you could have helped PJ direct the films, inputting your own knowledge and personal understanding of the books and of the story's premise? As co-director, you could choose what characters from the books would be depicted, and how they'd be played, (add new actors for new portrayals; i.e. who'd play Tom Bombadil, or, how could Eomer or Faramir have been developed differently, etcetera? This is the kind of stuff I think about while I'm busy procrastinating my day away...

04-28-2005, 01:41 PM	#2
Telcontar_Dunedain Warrior of the House of Hador Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,651	I'd have kept the Grey Company and the Son's of Elrond. I think that showing that there was more than one of Aragorn's kind. This would also show more depth to Aragorn's charcter. __________________ Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230

04-28-2005, 10:01 PM	#5
Manveru Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 256	thats one of the great mysteries of life. but isnt 'old man willow' actually an 'old man'? i guess he could just be a really manly entwife __________________ Earendel arose where the shadow flows At Ocean's silent brim; Through the mouth of night as a ray of light Where the shores are sheer and dim He launched his bark like a silver spark From the last and lonely sand; Then on sunlit breath of day's fiery death He sailed from Westerland

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Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	YES!!! That would, of course, be utterly fantastic, but what studio would back and budget such an enormous undertaking? Of all the stuff I dis PJ for, I gotta give him props for managing to fit in what he did into reasonably lengthed film segments, although it's infuriating that he wasted so much precious film-time on stuff like useless lines ("They're coming", with the far off drum beats growing closer in the minesa of Moria, or pretty much anything given to poor Peter Pan-I mean, Legolas to say). I'd make the Orcs more faceted, more interesting and unique, less cartoonish, more genuinely gritty-evil, etcetera. Their get-ups were pretty well done, except for Gothmog (wtf?!) but they were portrayed as far too easy to figure out and to annihilate. I'd leave the Ents as is, but I would give the whole Ents-in-Fangorn incident at least 15-20 minutes, and tell their story complete with their living arrangements. Hey, speaking of Ents, not to get off topic, but is there anyone out there who thinks maybe some of the lost Entwives wandered up north and were kicking it in the forests around the Shire and Grey Havens area?

04-29-2005, 12:05 AM	#6
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Old man willow ... perhaps "he" was, like you say, a manly entwife, like-maybe she was tremendously cranky because it had been so long since she'd, er, "been with" an Ent, plus she had no idea where all her other entwife friends had taken off to, so all she could think of to do to pass the time was to pick on whomever happened to pass by... Tolkien himself says mysteriously that even he doesn't know where the entwives ended up going, or what became of them. It's fun to think about, anyway.