• Ech@lemm.ee
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      I never hated the singing bits, but it bugged me since I never knew the intended rhythm or melody. Felt like I only got a part of the song every time.

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      O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië! O rowan fair, upon your hair how white the blossom lay! O rowan mine, I saw you shine upon a summer’s day, Your rind so bright, your leaves so light, your voice so cool and soft: Upon your head how golden-red the crown you bore aloft! O rowan dead, upon your head your hair is dry and grey; Your crown is spilled, your voice is stilled for ever and a day. O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië!

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      People wonder why Tom Bombadil isn’t in the movies. Cause he’s fucking ridiculous and stupid in the books. The changes needed to make that character work on film, you may as well just not have him in it. Honestly a dumb and useless character. Ooooh he’s so mysteriously powerful! He’s useless is what he is

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        8 months ago

        You shut your mouth! No one talks about my boy Tom that way. (I vaguely remember Tom Bombadil being one of Tolkiens daughters dolls and that’s how he came to be in the book.)

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      To this very day I’m not sure if the omission of Tom Bombadil was a good thing or not.

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    There’s a fair bit of singing in the movies, granted I haven’t read the books in years to really compare.

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      this guy will do anything but write the third book. did he train under GRRM

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        Apparently GRRM is just a shit writer with no discipline. I remember watching an interview with him and Stephen King where he’s asking SK how he meets his deadlines cause grrm just can’t do it. SK essentially just said "you give yourself writing goal, you sit down and write, you meet it. That’s it. You treat it like the job that it is. Grrm treats writing like a hobby

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    I think this was one of the many mistakes they made with the Hobbit movies. Or at least with the first 30 minutes or so of the first one, I never watched any of it past that lol

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      Honestly, them singing is possibly the only good thing to come out of those movies. It fits into my Dwarf Fortress songs fairly well.

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      In contrast, the early song number is the only part of the Hobbit trilogy that I didn’t sleep through.

      Home invasion by singing dwarfs was already hilarious in the books. That it’s a quality bit of chorus singing in the film just makes it that much better, to me.

      The rest of the Hobbit trilogy felt meandering and unfocused to me.

      In fairness, I really desperately needed a nap the last couple times I tried to watch them.