In a parallel universe, people are watching LotR movies one at a time, and not the entire extended trilogy in one go. Pathetic.
my mother in law does this! Drives me insane! “I just wanted to watch the two towers”. That’s IT? You didn’t feel the drive to immediately start RotK?
I watch them backwards starting from battle of the five armies.
I usually only watch the parts, where Legolas talks to Frodo.
First I watch the scenes with hobbits but not Frodo. Then I watch the scenes with Frodo but no other hobbits. Then I watch the scenes with Frodo and Bilbo but not Gandalf. Then I watch the scenes with dwarves and without Boromir. Then I seek psychiatric help.
To be fair, that’s a little like how the books are structured once the Fellowship breaks up. Book 3 is entirely following the Three Hunters, Merry, & Pippin. Then book 4 gives us Frodo & Sam. Book 5 returns to what Aragorn, Gandalf et al. are doing in Rohan & Gondor. The book 6 starts with Frodo & Sam in Mordor and their rescue from it. Then returns for the hobbits’ return trip to the Shire and the Scouring, and the denouement.
Are you getting fanfic mixed in there? There are only 3 LOTR books. An argument could even be made that they’re all one book since that’s how it was written, and it was the publisher that split it into 3.
There are only 3 LOTR books
No, there are 6. To quote the “note on the text” at the beginning of my 1-volume edition:
The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.
Each of the common three volumes consists of two books, which should be clearly delineated as such in any copy.
LotR is generally published in three named volumes, but each volume is broken up into two “books” (in this context, meaning a major division of a literary work, not a set of bound pages). FotR, Book II starts with the chapter “Many Meetings” (when Frodo wakes up in Rivendell).
I once watched the extended cut in a cinema, all in one sitting. If I remember correctly, we started at 9 in the morning and went home after 10 in the evening. It was really cool. There weren’t many people attending. We got Chinese takeout in between and ate it during the second one, the cinema didn’t care about people bringing in food. Some people a few rows away looked at us annoyed. Might’ve been the smell, but I think they were just jealous that we had real food.
It was definitely the smell. Broke their immersion, as Chinese food is not lore friendly. Right?
Next time bring some baked goods and people can pretend they’re smelling Lembas bread.
Nah, if anything, we get to Eowyn’s soup and that just became a 4d experience.
You just reminded me of that copypasta that people used to post on R😫dd🤮t, ranting about the stew scene.
Sauce
Not sauce, no: Stew.
This is so good i know for sure Eowyn didn’t write it
Po-tay-toes!
It actually works great as a mini series if you watch it like a TV show over a week or weekend.
Also, if you can find the Hobbit fan edit called ‘M4’, that’s actually worth adding into the marathon.
