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    Hobbit Film After Kong?

    in The Green Dragon

    Posted

    I think the hobbit would be the BEST Tolkien film suited to adaptation. It was written for children, who have very active minds and short-attention spans, and movies these days seem to be made for the same kind of people :)

    There is less to botch up in the Hobbit, because most of it doesn't fit well with the Mythology anyways.

    I'm sure they'll do a Hobbit movie because they didn't get rid of Hobbiton like the other sets.

    But they better not touch the Silmarillion, otherwise there will be some heads-a-flying :P

    size ...

    in General TLA Discussion

    Posted

    Hmm, I'm not sure about that.

    Height in Tolkien's work symbolizes power and lineage. Usually the taller a being, the more powerful or well-bred a being is. Galadriel, for instance was 6'4", very tall for a female elf, and she was described as more powerful or almost as powerful as Fëanor.

    To say that the orcs are as tall as elves means to say that they were just as powerful as Elves.

    In the first age, sure, they may have been more powerful than the third age, but elves are very tall, and if you remember, the orcs were seriously massacred during the battles of the First Age - it was mainly the balrogs, trolls, and dragons that caused the major problems for the forces of good.

    So I'd measure orcs in the first age at about 5'6" to 5'10", and then they'd get smaller in the second and third age.

    Costs of Techs, Units, and others

    in General TLA Discussion

    Posted

    I think the problem with this approach is that it would mean that the player has to worry about the resume status for each and every one of his buildings, whereas in the game settings he controls all with one function. This would make the game full of micromanagement and a hassle I think if for some reason your resources ran out.

    Game Distribution

    in General TLA Discussion

    Posted

    I think Enarwaen was playing around with words there. :P

    Commercial gaming magazines aren't going to be a viable option for us, as we are only legally legitimate if we don't "infringe upon an existing or potential market". Since companies that have Tolkien licenses compete for space on those commercial gaming CDs, we would be doing something illegal if we got on those disks and commercial companies didn't.

    I think probably what will happen is that we will build a network of host servers for the downloads, and we will encourage P2P sharing.

    We'll also probably be recruiting people whose sole job is to distribute the game in as many ways possible - that means, giving it to new host servers, using P2P sharing, and physically burning copies to give to those who request it.

    Then we will also be actively encouraging free distribution. Yes, we WANT people to pirate this, to try and spread it around as much as possible. Burn a copy for a friend; burn 10 copies for 10 friends and that's even better will be the rule of thumb probably.

    So it's going to be a strange thing distributing this game :)

  23. Stupid Quotes Of All Time!

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

    Posted

    No, George Bush is just an idiot. He's probally the dumbest person ever to live in the white house.

    Well I'm not sure about the first part, but the second part may have some validity.

    Anyways, George Bush doesn't need to be smart, just decisive. His cabinet needs to be smart :)

    It's interesting though that you tout Arnold Schwarzenegger as such a political success in the "Coolest Male Actor" thread, even though he's about as informed on politics as George W. Bush is...

    **MASSIVE SPOILERS** for RotK-movie

    in The Green Dragon

    Posted

    It's going to be good. I'm excited. But it seems like they left a lot of things out I would have liked to see:

    Drúedain

    Stone of Erech

    Grey Company

    Ships of Umbar

    Mouth of Sauron

    Gandalf v. Witch King

    Knighting of Merry

    Pippin with Beregond, et al.

    Denethor and Palantir

    Hirgon bearing the Red Arrow

    Lords of Gondor riding into Minas Tirith

    Prince Imrahil fighting

    Eowyn/Faramir Romance

    Crowning of Eomer

    Burial of Theoden

    Cair Andros (lol I know this is a stretch :P)

    Houses of Healing

    Círdan

    Elven-rings

    Elostirion (perhaps we will see it? I don't know)

    Scouring of the Shire (namely Merry and Pippin leading the battle to save the Shire)

    Saruman

    Saruman's Voice

    Grima throwing down the Palantir

    Pippin/Aragorn using the Palantir

    Saruman being killed by Grima

    Indication of War ALL OVER Middle-earth at the time of the Pelennor Fields

    This list seems long :)

    I think it will still be good though. There's only so much one can include in a movie. The EE better be 5 hours long now! :P

    I felt that certain sections of the previous films improved upon what Tolkien had written (gasp) i.e I was glad that PJ changed them because it made for a better film. E.g Eomer, not the elves charging down the hill with Gandalf at Helms Deep.

    I think the interviewer needs to read the book! This is blasphemous. In the book it was Erkenbrand riding with Gandalf, not elves! What a thing to say! Oh well...

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