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Has anyone seen the film and read the book? The book was fantastic and is really worth reading. How is the adaptation? It is a fairly lengthly book... Seb

The history of the Three Rings: Gil-Galad has Vilya and he passes it to Elrond when he dies, and Elrond bears it until the end of the age. Galadriel receives Nenya and bears it the entire age, and the third ring is given to Cirdan the Shipwight at the Grey Havens. When Gandalf passes over the...

Paul, I agree with you. In all the action of the film, a lot of the details or explanations had to have been either cut or not included for time constraints. But what I would have given for some conversations between the Fellowship. For example, after leaving Moria, on the way to Lorien, I...

While on Weathertop the Ringwraiths also did not know how Frodo would react to their attack and so when he showed defiance and willing resistence to them they were dismayed. Throw in Aragorn and their fear of fire and the fact that they were not all there, the name of Elbereth, they did the...

Aragorn is not ugly per se. At Bree and as a Ranger he masked his true identity and the power he had. His appearance was that of a person living in the wild, and who at first glance would put someone off. As Frodo said, "Look foul and feel fair." Seb

I am a huge fan of both the book and the film and its not the best film ever but it is the best book ever. (IMO) Seb

Matt, I was referring to the film. Ah yes, I actually remember both of those scenes now. The long chat Gandalf and Elrond have, and Strider mentioning it to Merry, Pippen and Sam. I feel better now, except I had better go see the film again, I am forgetting parts already! ;) Seb

I wouldn't mind a 5 hour cut spread over two disks. :) Seb

One other thing I've just noticed rereading the trilogy. I'm just beginning Chapter 1 of Book II, Many Meetings and Frodo has just come to in Rivendell and Gandalf tells him that he just barely made it. Correct me if I'm wrong but they made absolutely no mention of the fact that Frodo almost...

I'll sign that petition! I'm fairly confident that we can expect this from New Line anyways but it can't hurt. Seb

EDIT: Craig beat me to it but here's my post anyways. Seth and all, The attacks on The Prancing Pony and Buckland although not simultaneous, did occur on the same night.

With regards to the Nazgul's constant appearances in FotR: In the books, the Nazgul interact with a lot of other people in addition to Frodo and Co. which was left out of the film. A rider questions the Gaffer just as Frodo and Sam are heading out of Hobbiton. There are loud cries in the...

I saw this trailer before Lord of the Rings and laughed the whole way through. Has it opened yet? If not when will it open? I especially liked Leslie Nielson, "Purely medicinal, of course." :) I can't wait to see it. Seb

During my second viewing of FotR I noticed that audio dropouts occured after leaving Moria. It lasted for about twenty minutes, the only reason I didn't get up to complain was because I didn't want to miss anything in the movie. I also seemed to be the only person who noticed them, none of the...

One thing the guy said was in the movie:

The scenes with Tom Bombadil were not filmed at all so do not expect anything with the Old Forest or Tom in a director's cut. Peter Jackson did film scenes longer than they appear in the theatrical version and did film battle sequences more brutal than a PG-13 cut would allow that will be put...

Paul I cannot get the link you posted to work. It says its an invalid thread. Seb

The store I went to that had them all was the main Chapters bookstore downtown Toronto. They had multiple copies for all of the History of Middle-Earth. All of them were paperback and from the same publisher. Try the biggest B&N in your town. Seb

I think animated menus would be nice but they do get annoying after a while, especially if they are long between the time you can make a selection. If they do put animated menus on it, I hope you can just push skip and make your selection on screen. Seb

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Battle of Helm's Deep is going to be awesome, and I can't wait to see the Paths of the Dead! Seb

Chuck, Ordering the History of Middle Earth books from Amazon is ill-advised as you will end up with half in soft cover, half in hard, and all different series and booksizes. Its a shame they don't have one complete set you can order. My suggestion is to go into a major bookstore and check the...

By the way, for those of you who are still interested to know exactly who and how the rings came to the men, dwarves and elves, I've reread the section of the Silmarillion that deals with it.

Seth, I've read in a Peter Jackson quotation about The Two Towers that there will be men and elves at the Battle of Helm's Deep. So whether its Arwen or not that is present, the Eldar will be there. Graham, Yes the dwarves didn't dig up Durin's Bane until the middle of the Third Age but...

I have a friend who used to be a store manager for HMV and he told me that its the company's policy to have the highest markup on the market. That's why it seems like HMV's DVD prices are always through the roof, its their company policy for them to be like that. Seb

Last I heard it was supposed to come out sometime around New Years. Anyone heard anything? Thanks, Seb

With regards to the staff issue, in The Two Towers, Gandalf not only breaks Saruman's staff but casts him from the order of the Istari. As someone mentioned earlier on this page, the staff was the symbol of a wizard's office and so if someone was to command that a wizard's staff be broken, it...

The Balrogs were the servants of Morgoth in the First Age. Sauron was Morgoth's lieutenant, once Morgoth was defeated, Sauron became the big bad guy on Middle Earth. I would think that the Balrogs would then serve Sauron as they did Sauron's master, Morgoth. I cannot find anything that...

The reason the orcs ran away just before the Balrog came was because they were afraid of the Balrog. The same way that the orcs hated Sauron and feared him and his Nazgul, the orcs feared one of the Sauron's most powerful servents, the Balrog. I have the BBC recording and found it to be quite...