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re: Have we done this before? LoTR EXTENDED vs THEATRICAL, which do you prefer?
Posted on 6/3/25 at 2:39 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Posted on 6/3/25 at 2:39 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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Little 5 year old Iwy would have been having some nightmares for years.
I prepared him for some of that. So he thought the orcs and orukai were pretty funny.
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Posted on 6/3/25 at 2:48 pm to CAD703X
The extended editions still weren't long enough for me. I wanted more!!
Posted on 6/3/25 at 2:52 pm to CocomoLSU
quote:Um he had nightmares dummy
I prepared him for some of that. So he thought the orcs and orukai were pretty funny.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 3:15 pm to tigafan4life
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Um he had nightmares dummy
He did not have any nightmares about LotR.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 3:24 pm to CocomoLSU
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He's been begging me to watch the Hobbit movies
Watch the animated(77-78?) version with him it’s a lot less time intensive and is as close to Tolkien as you’ll get. I.E, Thorin is an old, a-hole of a dwarf and the elves, orcs, goblins, and gollum are much more in line with Tolkien’s original descriptions as well.
It was magical to me as I distinctly remember watching it in my grandparent’s living room when I was 7 or 8, as I believe NBC broadcasted it every Thanksgiving and it had it’s own float in the Macy’s parade with a smoking & blowing Smaug, and falling in love with it and lead me to reading Tolkien and the Legendarium.
Besides, the voice overs are incredible John Huston as Gandalf, Richard Boone was perfection as Smaug, and Thorin Oakenshield was voiced by legendary stage and screen actor Hans Conried whom was also the voice of Captain Hook and played Wrong Way Feldman on Gilligan’s Island.
This post was edited on 6/3/25 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 6/3/25 at 3:35 pm to CAD703X
In particular, the Passing of the Elves scene always gets me.
I don't know why.
I don't know why.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 4:10 pm to CAD703X
Extended, mainly because of the Mouth of Sauron in Return of the King.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:12 pm to CAD703X
Has he read the books? If so I would say extended but if not start with theatrical.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 6:30 pm to CAD703X
Extended.
I do like the theatricals ride into Hobbiton better than the extended.
I do like the theatricals ride into Hobbiton better than the extended.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 9:04 am to Boomdaddy65201
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the elves, orcs, goblins, and gollum are much more in line with Tolkien’s original descriptions as well.
Not so much the Elves. Tolkien's Elves were always described as looking pretty much like humans, just more perfect versions of them. The Wood Elves in the animated Hobbit, meanwhile, look gnomish and not right. Otherwise that cartoon is splendid, though.
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