Nerd of the Rings is really good and so is Tolkien Untangled. worth mentioning that Nerd of the Rings uses maps a lot so you won't absorb as much as you should if it's just background for you unless you've got a really good idea of the map in your head but I wouldn't let that dissuade you from listening either. e: I'll toss in this one I came across recently on ig https://www.instagram.com/the_tolkien_vault for the time limit allotted, they get pretty lore dense. feel like 50% of my algorithm is just LOTR/Dune/WH40K lore channels so yea lol
Being the super cool kids we were in HS that was one of our jokes, if there’s the fighting Uruk-Hai that must means there are all types. The cooking Uruks, the cleaning, dancing, etc.
I think in the extended editions there’s also a line where Gimli says a dead orc is twitching because his ax is embedded in his central nervous system. Which I guess implies dwarves have a robust medical community and basic universal anatomy/biology education
I thought it was common middle earth knowledge that dwarf doctors were widely renowned, though perhaps a bit quick to solve cases with amputation.
My older bro tells me it’s 100% because it wasn’t about Bilbo. No matter what he told me, the second Bilbo left the screen I refused to watch LotR. Remember I would sing the songs from the Hobbit every day at recess.
Without a fucking doubt. When it comes to dorks, you can’t find anyone closer to home than your boy Dirt.
I'm on forced PTO next week so I decided to re-start this saga from the Hobbit: Unexpected Journey. Been years since I've seen any of these and am looking forward to it all week. Going the extended cuts when I can. In my watch, I just made it to Laketown.
Warner Bros was so stupid with the Hobbit trilogy. Should’ve just been 2 movies (or 3 at like all 30 minutes shorter) and they also forced in a bunch of shitty CGI that wasn’t in the original trilogy because they didn’t want to pay a bunch of dudes in makeup as Orcs. Thankfully they didn’t get cheap for Smaug. Casting was on point though.
100% agree. They screwed up. Adding Legolas was totally unnecessary. Adding the elf / dwarf love story was totally unnecessary. using CGI for the orcs was so much worse than live action. Still some great parts, though. Most of which were straight from the books. Like the dwarves singing the Lonely Mountain song in Bilbo’s hobbit hole - top tier.
I'm about to rewatch everything.. is starting with the Hobbit the preferred order? Where does rings of power fall in?
Lord of the rings is just so much better than rings of power and the hobbit. As said above that should have been a slam dunk couple of movies but they fucked it up
there’s apparently a fan edit out there of Hobbit that cuts all the non-book stuff and reworks some of the ordering has anyone seen it?
War of the Rohirrim is cool. Not an anime person, but enjoyed the animation Helm is a beast and Hera is pretty awesome
Been on a real Tolkien kick lately. I actually think rings of power is awesome, it just takes like 7 episodes before it gets there. First few episodes are a little rough war of rohirrim was pretty cool. Not a huge anime guy either, but it’s always nice to go to middle earth for a couple hours Reading the books for the first time, started with the hobbit and just started two towers. Love them so far, but goddamn does Tolkien like to write songs. I zone out every time
there are always differing interpretations and recollections of history, enjoy it instead of putting it under the microscope of an unfinished creation story
I'm basically this, but probably a touch more negative. The writing was so bad at times it was comical. When the wood elf ranger gets run through with a spear by Adar in a dramatic end to one episode, left to die in slow mo and everything, and then shows up in the next episode healthy while they don't even acknowledge it? Bananas.