20 Lines That Could Have Dramatically Changed The Lord of the Rings.
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An overview of the Hobbit situation from the New York Times, because even I’m getting confused at this point.
Video Monday
What if Quentin Tarantino made Lord of the Rings? Orodruin Dogs, Ring Fiction, Natural Born Orcs, and White City. Not as good as Star Wars Pulp Fiction, but still pretty damn funny.
Bill Moyers’ interview with George Lucas from The Mythology of Star Wars TV special, in four three parts: 1, 3, 4. I’m not sure where part 2 went, if it was ever there at all.
James Michael Tyler talks to Jonathan Rinzler about The Art of Revenge of the Sith and The Making of, as well as Matthew Stover about the ROTS novelization and James Luceno about Dark Lord.
Screw that, have more funny
- Matthew ‘General Grievous’ Wood and Warwick Davis sing a classic Disney song.
- Hayden Christensen on MTV’s TRL.
- Budweiser Star Wars. I’m sorry.
- To continue tonight’s slide into cheesiness, a Jeff Foxworthy/Star Wars mashup. Really, very, very sorry.
- Okay, okay, here’s something that will only make you cringe a little: 1977 cast interview on The Today Show.
The development of LOTR
The early days of the Lord of the Rings films in a excerpt from an upcoming Peter Jackson biography:
“At one point Bob said: ‘So there’s these four hobbits, right? And, you know, they go on this adventure and none of the hobbits die?’ Well, no, we explained. Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin all survive . . . ‘Well, we can’t have that,’ he said. ‘We’ve got to kill a hobbit! I don’t care which one; you can pick — I’m not telling you who it should be: you pick out who you want to kill, but we’ve really got to kill one of those hobbits!’
Teehee!
From the Blogside
The Movie Blog’s John Campea on why we aren’t swimming in fantasy films in the wake of Lord of the Rings.
Apprentice of Wisdom does some digging and finds a possible origin for Palpatine’s name.; RJ Peters considers hope and redemption; Kenobi-fan on the Force; Abel G. Peña continues his Emperor’s Pawns endnotes with a look at the retconning of Lumiya; Leland Chee on continuty, cross-platform storytelling and non-SW terms.
Wait, no hobbit holes?
Talk about fandom and real life colliding.. The Shire is a planned community in Oregon based on Lord of the Rings. Pretty, and I guess it’s better than living in a community ‘in the spirit of’ Thomas Kinkade, but dude.
Do you like my Wookiee? Does he excite you?
Chewbacca is Entertainment Weekly’s fourth greatest sidekick of all time, proving that everyones loves a Wookiee. Other geek-friendly sidekicks include Samwise Gamgee (#7,) Ron and Hermoine (#11,) Willow Rosenberg (#17) and Silent Bob (#39.)
And Wookiee makes three
For the slashers: The Top 10 Unintentionally Gay Moments in movies. Luke and Han’s break-up in A New Hope makes number 6. But guess who’s number one? Slow-motion hobbits.
Frodo and Sam: Secret Lovers?
So wrong it’s right: TBS is running the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and they’ve whipped up some utterly hilarious ads. (Thanks Yav!)
Ever hear Sauron sing? You’ll love it.
You know, it’s probably not a good sign that the last of these four photos from the stage version of Lord of the Rings reminds me of Showgirls.