WeirdRaptor's Lord of the Rings Adapt. Face-Off:

Kor · **Reply #240 on:** December 05, 2010, 01:55:27 AM

No, hurry, take your time when you have time.

Nick22 · **Reply #241 on:** December 14, 2010, 08:30:03 PM

Well, Mckellan and Blanchett are back to reprise thier roles..not sure how I feel about Bloom playing Legolas again..

Kor · **Reply #242 on:** December 14, 2010, 09:50:48 PM

I guess their adding in his character.

I also heard on a dr who podcast, not sure if it's true, that Sylvester McCoy himself said, who was the 7th doctor, will be doing Radgast the brown & they expanded his part in the movie.

Nick22 · **Reply #243 on:** December 14, 2010, 09:57:05 PM

actually legolas was the son of the Elven king who captures the Dwarves so his character is there though not mentioned by name. Bilbo never learned it although Gandalf would have known him..

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #244 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:55:47 AM

On one hand, there's no word from Tolkien what Legolas was doing at the time the Necromancer was invading Mirkwood and the dwarves were passing through, but he was in there, somewhere. I recall someone suggesting he be the one to capture the dwarves and bring them to his father for the new movie.

Nick22 · **Reply #245 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:58:36 AM

my guess, and is just that, is that he was staying with his father Thuandil, he was a relatively young at that point. and that suggestion works. give him a small role but don't foreshadow too much. the hobbit should not become LOTR Part 1 and 2

Kor · **Reply #246 on:** December 15, 2010, 01:20:31 PM

That can work. I guess he may be among, or the one, who captures the dwarves in mirkwood, and around when they surround lonely mountain, I think it's called, when Thorin refuses to give the others any share of the treasure that Smaug had hoarded and at the battle of 5 armies.

I read Galadriel will be in the movie. She could be a member of the white council since she would be among the oldest elves still in middle earth since she dates way way back to the time of the trees and was actually in Valinor. With the white council Elrond may have a larger role in the movie.

Nick22 · **Reply #247 on:** December 15, 2010, 05:31:35 PM

that is true, in the book elrond only had a small role, he discovered the rune letters on the map and let the group stay in rivendell for a few days..and that was it..

Kor · **Reply #248 on:** December 15, 2010, 10:13:17 PM

I wonder if they'll switch between the 2 groups, or if it'll be where the hobbit is part 1 and the white council stuff is part 2.

Nick22 · **Reply #249 on:** December 15, 2010, 10:59:56 PM

hmm thats a good question, but there may be switches between biblo and the dwarvews in milkwood and the white council in part 1.

Kor · **Reply #250 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:36:01 PM

I guess they can't include any stuff but what is in the hobbit and the lord of the rings.

Nick22 · **Reply #251 on:** December 16, 2010, 12:18:33 AM

anything that happened before LOTR and in the time frame of the hobbit.

Nick22 · **Reply #252 on:** December 26, 2010, 05:16:23 PM

hope the film will be good.

Kor · **Reply #253 on:** December 26, 2010, 09:24:09 PM

I'm sure most folks are hoping the 2 films will be as good.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #254 on:** January 24, 2011, 12:06:03 PM

I know you guys are going to see this bumped and be excited, so I apologize in advance. Alright, first off, I do still intend to finish off this monster of a paper, but I haven't had time to really work on it lately. Plus, I've been feeling tired a lot and I don't know why. I have a feeling I have a cold coming on, but I don't really have any specific symptons (yet). It wouln't surprise me, though, if I was starting to get sick, my job put me on the roof of a building while it was snowing with icy winds blasting me a few days ago.

Kor · **Reply #255 on:** January 24, 2011, 12:41:56 PM

No hurry about doing your next installment, and I hope you don't get sick. If you feel tired you do need rest, maybe extra rest.

Nick22 · **Reply #256 on:** January 24, 2011, 03:17:36 PM

health is more important. get healthy then start focusing on the next update.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #257 on:** January 25, 2011, 04:04:48 AM

Thanks as always, guys. I'm glad you're enjoying the paper.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #258 on:** January 25, 2011, 06:52:45 AM

"Why does this have an article? Is some fan's review worth noting? I know that there's no such thing as notability, but all this seems to do is promote (this article was written by the author of the piece) what is obviously Fan Dumb, considering that this person is a well-known IM Db troll who is known for claiming that every adaptation of the books is bad, and everyone who enjoys any adaptation is a moron."

-Said by one guy who has a username that's all numbers. -> 128.227.41.55

Yes, I started a TVTropes article for Adaptation Face-Off. I found the article gutted, reedited, and turned into one big insult directed at me calling me things like Troll, Fan Dumb, Too Dumb To live, and that the article only existed to offend anyone who liked adaptations of Tolkien's work. Then they said I know next to nothing about the books or film productions of the adaptations. And there's the above completely false claim. I have no idea where this loser gets his information, but have never done anything warranting that accusation. For one thing, I adore the original Hobbit cartoon and the Peter Jackson renditions. Hell, I spent years as an active member of the IMDb LotR boards fending off trolls. Where did this jackass get his information?!

If you go to TVTropes, you won't find much left, because I basically wiped the article. It was all I could do because when I checked the Edit History I found that none other than a TVTropes moderator, FastEddie, was in on turning it into an attack against me. Yes, really. But that's not the best part. When I went to the forum to confront them about this, I was banhammered without any kind of warning. No Private Message, no reply telling me to back off. In fact, I found out I had been banned while I attempted to reply to a snide response FastEddie had left and this showed up:
"We're sorry, but posting has been turned off for you."

Oh yeah, and any trace of the conversation was erased.

FUCK YOU, FASTEDDIE!

Oddly, I can still create and edit articles. :huh: I'm not going to do anything, but I do now have a name for a Fool Type character in a story I'm a writing: Eddie.

In closing, the whole redeal if nothing else has made appreciate the staff here at GoF all the more. Thanks for the being upstanding, understanding people, Mods and Admits of Gang of Five. In short, I'm sorry for whining at you guys like a little twelve year old, but I had to get this off my chest!

Nick22 · **Reply #259 on:** January 25, 2011, 10:14:15 AM

that guy was a real pain in the rear

thats the problem when mods and admins let stuff go to thier heads

: oh well.. i'm a LOTR nut, i know more than is probably healthy about tolkien and his works, but i'm not going to go onto sites like imbd because of mods like him (that and it costs money to sign up there). Just focus on your paper and forget jerks s like Eddie. the world is unfortunately full of them.