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Post by Synariel The Admin on Oct 29, 2021 4:53:16 GMT
I was just wondering, how old were you guys when you first saw The FOTR and what was your reaction?
I was 15 and I saw it the Oct after it came out in theaters. My aunt and uncle invited us over to watch it and at the time I didn't know it was based off of books, I had only heard of the video game, so I was expecting another corny, low budget video game movie that wasn't very good (which sounds funny for me to say cause I've actually always loved those corny old video game movies lol ๐). But then as soon as it started, the music and visuals and everything were just like "WOOOOWWWW!!! ๐" and I was imediately captived! I found the whole story so cool, inspiring and touching and I felt like my whole life had been changed by the time the movie was over. My parents bought the movie soon after and I watched it literally almost every single day like 6 days a week lol ๐ Thankfully I didn't have to wait long for The Two Towers to follow.
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Post by Hanasian on Dec 9, 2021 3:38:13 GMT
I was just wondering, how old were you guys when you first saw The FOTR and what was your reaction? I'm an old guy having first read the books back in 1975. It was 1999 when I first heard rumor that movies were being made in New Zealand, so I got online at work (since they had a proper corporate internet connection instead of my 28.8kbs dial-up modem) and looked up what I could find. I registered to a few sites that were dedicated to the upcoming movies and got deep into them. Went to a 'line-party' for the opening night in Seattle and I was... hmm... December 2001... 44. My reaction that first showing was one of awe with the beginning Shire scenes and was loving the aesthetics and for the most part, the acting of the Hobbits and Gandalf. The Nazgul were really awesome and appeared inspired by the Bakshi film of 1978, and the Prancing Pony was really awesome. My first 'cringe' moment was that of Arwen catching Aragorn out in the wild. All-in-all I really enjoyed the rest of the Fellowship. Rivendell, Moria, Lothlorien, and the acting of the characters. The sad part was Boromir's death. I think I went to the theaters a dozen times to watch Fellowship. Finding out they were making the films inspired me to read the books again after a number of years, and I again read the books around the end of January 2002. Overall I was happy with how Fellowship presented itself, and the characters save Elijah/Frodo, Lix/Arwen, and Orlando/Legolas enhanced my mind's eye on how the characters looked. Ian/Gandalf hit the role out of the park as did Christopher/Sarumann, and Sean/Boromir really increased my vision of Boromir as he was presented pretty flat in the books.
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Post by Synariel The Admin on Dec 9, 2021 3:56:18 GMT
I was just wondering, how old were you guys when you first saw The FOTR and what was your reaction? I'm an old guy having first read the books back in 1975. It was 1999 when I first heard rumor that movies were being made in New Zealand, so I got online at work (since they had a proper corporate internet connection instead of my 28.8kbs dial-up modem) and looked up what I could find. I registered to a few sites that were dedicated to the upcoming movies and got deep into them. Went to a 'line-party' for the opening night in Seattle and I was... hmm... December 2001... 44. My reaction that first showing was one of awe with the beginning Shire scenes and was loving the aesthetics and for the most part, the acting of the Hobbits and Gandalf. The Nazgul were really awesome and appeared inspired by the Bakshi film of 1978, and the Prancing Pony was really awesome. My first 'cringe' moment was that of Arwen catching Aragorn out in the wild. All-in-all I really enjoyed the rest of the Fellowship. Rivendell, Moria, Lothlorien, and the acting of the characters. The sad part was Boromir's death. I think I went to the theaters a dozen times to watch Fellowship. Finding out they were making the films inspired me to read the books again after a number of years, and I again read the books around the end of January 2002. Overall I was happy with how Fellowship presented itself, and the characters save Elijah/Frodo, Lix/Arwen, and Orlando/Legolas enhanced my mind's eye on how the characters looked. Ian/Gandalf hit the role out of the park as did Christopher/Sarumann, and Sean/Boromir really increased my vision of Boromir as he was presented pretty flat in the books. I agree about Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee!!! Out of the whole cast I think they are just so perfect for their characters-the most perfect! Which is a lot coming from me because I felt everyone else was also perfect. I might have felt different if I'd read the books first, but since I saw the movies first the actors became the faces of the books characters to me. What's a line party? I've never heard of that ๐ค๐ฎ Ikr the nazgul were so awesome! I was like dang they're so terrifying!!! ๐ They had such a strong presence! Sadly I never got to see the FOTR in theaters, but the other 2 movies I saw about 7 times each. My siblings and I went as often as we could until the movies were no longer there. The magic was just so strong we just couldn't let it go! ๐
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Post by Hanasian on Dec 9, 2021 4:24:34 GMT
A 'line party' was the gathering of like-minded fans for the premiere opening of the movie. The first showing was at Midnight since it had to be that opening day, so people who got tickets to that showing would gather in a line starting early in the day. We got there around 6PM after I got off work and there were already a hundred people ahead of us. People brought blankets and cheap camp chairs and coolers and even small weber BBQs and there was a 'party' on the sidewalk of the street. Many, if not most, got all fitted up in costumes and it was quite the big deal. I didn't dress up for Fellowship, but did the next year for Two Towers.
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Post by Synariel The Admin on Dec 9, 2021 4:58:51 GMT
A 'line party' was the gathering of like-minded fans for the premiere opening of the movie. The first showing was at Midnight since it had to be that opening day, so people who got tickets to that showing would gather in a line starting early in the day. We got there around 6PM after I got off work and there were already a hundred people ahead of us. People brought blankets and cheap camp chairs and coolers and even small weber BBQs and there was a 'party' on the sidewalk of the street. Many, if not most, got all fitted up in costumes and it was quite the big deal. I didn't dress up for Fellowship, but did the next year for Two Towers. Wow that sounds really awesome and adventurous! ๐ I love seeing people get hyped up for the LOTR!
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Post by arelleth on Dec 9, 2021 21:40:40 GMT
I love the idea of a line party, how cool!!
Let's see...I was 15, in 2006. We were reading The Fellowship for school, and I was the only one in my entire class who had never seen the movies. So when I got around to seeing the movies for the first time, it was the extended editions that my nerdy best friend brought to school and allowed our class to borrow while we were goofing off at the end of term - and man am I glad I did! There are so many details that I appreciate there being in the EE that aren't in the originals.
While the books are always going to be my favourites, I love the EE movies. My first impressions of FotR: Merry and Pippin were the kind of silly I was expecting and I loved it. Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn was incredible, and Ian McKellen was pretty much exactly how I pictured Gandalf. I was a bit surprised by Legolas being blond, I think. But overall I was absolutely enchanted!
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Post by Synariel The Admin on Dec 10, 2021 17:49:08 GMT
I love the idea of a line party, how cool!! Let's see...I was 15, in 2006. We were reading The Fellowship for school, and I was the only one in my entire class who had never seen the movies. So when I got around to seeing the movies for the first time, it was the extended editions that my nerdy best friend brought to school and allowed our class to borrow while we were goofing off at the end of term - and man am I glad I did! There are so many details that I appreciate there being in the EE that aren't in the originals. While the books are always going to be my favourites, I love the EE movies. My first impressions of FotR: Merry and Pippin were the kind of silly I was expecting and I loved it. Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn was incredible, and Ian McKellen was pretty much exactly how I pictured Gandalf. I was a bit surprised by Legolas being blond, I think. But overall I was absolutely enchanted! Oh, you were the same age as me when you first saw it. ^^ That's so cool that you got to see the EE first! I really appreciate all the extra scenes and the light they shed on things. Oh I hadn't thought about it but I guess it makes sense that he might not have been blond. ๐ค They don't seem to explicitly say what color his hair is either in the books... I guess they ultimately decided to go with blond because his dad is blond. I like it for him Orlando too. It fit him really well and helped his visual stand out amongst the fellowship since most of them have darker hair.
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Post by Lonannuniel on Dec 12, 2021 13:26:36 GMT
How I got into this movie is a long story. Practically a journey in itself, lol. I had multiple "first impressions" of it.
I think the movies came out in the cinema in 2001, right? So I would have been 14. I went to see it with a group of people. There was my mum, a couple of her friends, her friends' two kids, me, and some guy that was more acquaintance wasn't invited but tagged along anyway because he overheard us making plans. Honestly, I didn't much care for the movie. It just wasn't the genre I liked at the time. The kids were 9, and kinda ruined my enjoyment of it because they were getting restless and trying to recreate the fight scenes they were watching right next to me. (Yeah, too young for the 12 rating, and I have no idea how they were sneaked in without the ticket ripper noticing, but there you go.) At the time, I didn't really know about the books. The school I went to wasn't exactly literature diverse, they basically did the bare minimum to coast kids through the school yearly syllabus. The library was also terrible from what I remember.
The film literally made no impression on me what so ever, other than that I didn't enjoy it. So when Two Towers came out in the cinema, I didn't bother going to see it. My grandmother had Fellowship and Two Towers on VHS, and watched them obsessively. I remembered walking in while she was watching Two Towers, and it was the part where they were at Helms Deep, and they were preparing for the battle. I kinda enjoyed it, but because I only saw that part and a little afterwards, I couldn't fully enjoy it. The short parts of it that I was allowed to see, I liked. My grandmother was a horrible person, and would get abusive if anyone dare make any sound during movies she watched, so that kinda ruined my enjoyment of them somewhat. My mum surprised me for my birthday, I think, with a DVD box set of the Extended Edition of Two Towers so I could watch it. I remember I didn't even have a DVD player, I had to watch it on my PlayStation 2. I watched that obsessively. Literally, watching it through, then had to start again from the beginning. My memory of Fellowship was so hazy. I think the only scene I remembered was Gandalf's "death" in Moria. I remember asking my grandmother if I could borrow her VHS copy to watch it. She told me no, as it was hers and if I wanted to watch it to get my own. (She was always like that. Refused to share any thing.) My mum waited until she was out and stole it so I could watch it, then sneaked it back afterwards. I enjoyed it, but I found the part about Bilbo and the adventure "before" confusing, as I didn't even know The Hobbit existed. We didn't own a computer, so I didn't really have internet access. I didn't know anyone that did have a computer.
I started college in the September of 2003, and happened to be in the library, and saw Lord of the Rings on the shelf. This shocked me, as I didn't know this movie I'd watched obsessively was a book before. I found "The Hobbit" there, and had a quick flip through, and saw "Bilbo Baggins" I think my first thought was "OMG! That old guy at the beginning." I had almost filled up my required amount of books on research books for my assignment, and had one more space for The Hobbit. I literally went cover to cover on it. I must have read it loads of times before I had to return it. I think that was the only college book I ever kept for the full two weeks "borrowing" time before giving it back.
After I knew everything about Bilbo, I watched Fellowship again, planning to watch Two Towers again, and I really did feel like I was seeing Fellowship again with new eyes. It was like a complete different movie to me. I understood it more. I was finally able to watch it and actually get into it. And that was when I first started liking Fellowship.
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Post by arelleth on Dec 13, 2021 6:00:32 GMT
Oh, you were the same age as me when you first saw it. ^^ That's so cool that you got to see the EE first! I really appreciate all the extra scenes and the light they shed on things. Oh I hadn't thought about it but I guess it makes sense that he might not have been blond. ๐ค They don't seem to explicitly say what color his hair is either in the books... I guess they ultimately decided to go with blond because his dad is blond. I like it for him Orlando too. It fit him really well and helped his visual stand out amongst the fellowship since most of them have darker hair. Yes! I should correct that to 2007, not 2006 lol. Anyway! I feel like it was a good age to see it - young enough to still feel enchanted by the magic that is Middle-Earth, and old enough to handle the scary parts haha! Yeah, the books never say - ultimately I don't mind that movie Legolas is blond, and you're right, he does stand out visually among the Fellowship. They really wanted to highlight Legolas' ethereal Elvishness haha!
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Post by arelleth on Dec 13, 2021 6:02:43 GMT
How I got into this movie is a long story. Practically a journey in itself, lol. I had multiple "first impressions" of it. I think the movies came out in the cinema in 2001, right? So I would have been 14. I went to see it with a group of people. There was my mum, a couple of her friends, her friends' two kids, me, and some guy that was more acquaintance wasn't invited but tagged along anyway because he overheard us making plans. Honestly, I didn't much care for the movie. It just wasn't the genre I liked at the time. The kids were 9, and kinda ruined my enjoyment of it because they were getting restless and trying to recreate the fight scenes they were watching right next to me. (Yeah, too young for the 12 rating, and I have no idea how they were sneaked in without the ticket ripper noticing, but there you go.) At the time, I didn't really know about the books. The school I went to wasn't exactly literature diverse, they basically did the bare minimum to coast kids through the school yearly syllabus. The library was also terrible from what I remember. The film literally made no impression on me what so ever, other than that I didn't enjoy it. So when Two Towers came out in the cinema, I didn't bother going to see it. My grandmother had Fellowship and Two Towers on VHS, and watched them obsessively. I remembered walking in while she was watching Two Towers, and it was the part where they were at Helms Deep, and they were preparing for the battle. I kinda enjoyed it, but because I only saw that part and a little afterwards, I couldn't fully enjoy it. The short parts of it that I was allowed to see, I liked. My grandmother was a horrible person, and would get abusive if anyone dare make any sound during movies she watched, so that kinda ruined my enjoyment of them somewhat. My mum surprised me for my birthday, I think, with a DVD box set of the Extended Edition of Two Towers so I could watch it. I remember I didn't even have a DVD player, I had to watch it on my PlayStation 2. I watched that obsessively. Literally, watching it through, then had to start again from the beginning. My memory of Fellowship was so hazy. I think the only scene I remembered was Gandalf's "death" in Moria. I remember asking my grandmother if I could borrow her VHS copy to watch it. She told me no, as it was hers and if I wanted to watch it to get my own. (She was always like that. Refused to share any thing.) My mum waited until she was out and stole it so I could watch it, then sneaked it back afterwards. I enjoyed it, but I found the part about Bilbo and the adventure "before" confusing, as I didn't even know The Hobbit existed. We didn't own a computer, so I didn't really have internet access. I didn't know anyone that did have a computer. I started college in the September of 2003, and happened to be in the library, and saw Lord of the Rings on the shelf. This shocked me, as I didn't know this movie I'd watched obsessively was a book before. I found "The Hobbit" there, and had a quick flip through, and saw "Bilbo Baggins" I think my first thought was "OMG! That old guy at the beginning." I had almost filled up my required amount of books on research books for my assignment, and had one more space for The Hobbit. I literally went cover to cover on it. I must have read it loads of times before I had to return it. I think that was the only college book I ever kept for the full two weeks "borrowing" time before giving it back. After I knew everything about Bilbo, I watched Fellowship again, planning to watch Two Towers again, and I really did feel like I was seeing Fellowship again with new eyes. It was like a complete different movie to me. I understood it more. I was finally able to watch it and actually get into it. And that was when I first started liking Fellowship. Wow, you did go through a few changes in impressions! Cool that you got your own EE of Two Towers
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Post by Synariel The Admin on Dec 13, 2021 19:20:15 GMT
Oh, you were the same age as me when you first saw it. ^^ That's so cool that you got to see the EE first! I really appreciate all the extra scenes and the light they shed on things. Oh I hadn't thought about it but I guess it makes sense that he might not have been blond. ๐ค They don't seem to explicitly say what color his hair is either in the books... I guess they ultimately decided to go with blond because his dad is blond. I like it for him Orlando too. It fit him really well and helped his visual stand out amongst the fellowship since most of them have darker hair. Yes! I should correct that to 2007, not 2006 lol. Anyway! I feel like it was a good age to see it - young enough to still feel enchanted by the magic that is Middle-Earth, and old enough to handle the scary parts haha! Yeah, the books never say - ultimately I don't mind that movie Legolas is blond, and you're right, he does stand out visually among the Fellowship. They really wanted to highlight Legolas' ethereal Elvishness haha! I agree! It was a good age for those reasons haha ๐ They did! And they did it well haha ๐๐๐
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Post by Synariel The Admin on Dec 13, 2021 19:31:05 GMT
How I got into this movie is a long story. Practically a journey in itself, lol. I had multiple "first impressions" of it. I think the movies came out in the cinema in 2001, right? So I would have been 14. I went to see it with a group of people. There was my mum, a couple of her friends, her friends' two kids, me, and some guy that was more acquaintance wasn't invited but tagged along anyway because he overheard us making plans. Honestly, I didn't much care for the movie. It just wasn't the genre I liked at the time. The kids were 9, and kinda ruined my enjoyment of it because they were getting restless and trying to recreate the fight scenes they were watching right next to me. (Yeah, too young for the 12 rating, and I have no idea how they were sneaked in without the ticket ripper noticing, but there you go.) At the time, I didn't really know about the books. The school I went to wasn't exactly literature diverse, they basically did the bare minimum to coast kids through the school yearly syllabus. The library was also terrible from what I remember. The film literally made no impression on me what so ever, other than that I didn't enjoy it. So when Two Towers came out in the cinema, I didn't bother going to see it. My grandmother had Fellowship and Two Towers on VHS, and watched them obsessively. I remembered walking in while she was watching Two Towers, and it was the part where they were at Helms Deep, and they were preparing for the battle. I kinda enjoyed it, but because I only saw that part and a little afterwards, I couldn't fully enjoy it. The short parts of it that I was allowed to see, I liked. My grandmother was a horrible person, and would get abusive if anyone dare make any sound during movies she watched, so that kinda ruined my enjoyment of them somewhat. My mum surprised me for my birthday, I think, with a DVD box set of the Extended Edition of Two Towers so I could watch it. I remember I didn't even have a DVD player, I had to watch it on my PlayStation 2. I watched that obsessively. Literally, watching it through, then had to start again from the beginning. My memory of Fellowship was so hazy. I think the only scene I remembered was Gandalf's "death" in Moria. I remember asking my grandmother if I could borrow her VHS copy to watch it. She told me no, as it was hers and if I wanted to watch it to get my own. (She was always like that. Refused to share any thing.) My mum waited until she was out and stole it so I could watch it, then sneaked it back afterwards. I enjoyed it, but I found the part about Bilbo and the adventure "before" confusing, as I didn't even know The Hobbit existed. We didn't own a computer, so I didn't really have internet access. I didn't know anyone that did have a computer. I started college in the September of 2003, and happened to be in the library, and saw Lord of the Rings on the shelf. This shocked me, as I didn't know this movie I'd watched obsessively was a book before. I found "The Hobbit" there, and had a quick flip through, and saw "Bilbo Baggins" I think my first thought was "OMG! That old guy at the beginning." I had almost filled up my required amount of books on research books for my assignment, and had one more space for The Hobbit. I literally went cover to cover on it. I must have read it loads of times before I had to return it. I think that was the only college book I ever kept for the full two weeks "borrowing" time before giving it back. After I knew everything about Bilbo, I watched Fellowship again, planning to watch Two Towers again, and I really did feel like I was seeing Fellowship again with new eyes. It was like a complete different movie to me. I understood it more. I was finally able to watch it and actually get into it. And that was when I first started liking Fellowship. Wow that's quite a story!!! ๐ Even tho it was a rocky start I'm glad you were finally able to experience the full story, as well as the Hobbit and come to enjoy LOTR! I left this out above I think, but I actually almost didn't like it either exactly. I had seen so many commercials and was a little annoyed of seeing LOTR everywhere. But then when my aunt and uncle invited my siblings and I to watch it at their house I was suddenly like Ok, I can give it a shot. It helped that I kept hearing it was really good from a lot of people too. I was also bored bc my family was pretty poor back then so we never got to do much, so getting invited to see a movie with a good rep seemed like it could be fun. And ofc I'm glad they invited us, cause it was awesome. They also had a surround sound, big speaker kind of set up in their house so it really enhanced the experience almost as if we were at the theater.
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Post by lothonwen on Dec 13, 2021 21:13:00 GMT
I have two older sisters who love to read as much as I do, I was reading the books as soon as I was allowed to. I read it for the first time at age 12; I still read it once or twice a year(sometimes more than that). On my fifteenth birthday I was given permission to watch the movies (Wow, it seems like age fifteen is the right age to watch the movies ) I was obsessed, I was rather sad when we finished watching the last one. Then I watched the extended versions; Wow! Of course I was rather ticked off at some of the things they added (Arwen instead of Glorfindel, Helms Deep, Osgilliath, the stairs of Cirith Ungul, etc.) but over all, it was incredible!
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Post by arelleth on Dec 15, 2021 3:35:45 GMT
I have two older sisters who love to read as much as I do, I was reading the books as soon as I was allowed to. I read it for the first time at age 12; I still read it once or twice a year(sometimes more than that). On my fifteenth birthday I was given permission to watch the movies (Wow, it seems like age fifteen is the right age to watch the movies ) I was obsessed, I was rather sad when we finished watching the last one. Then I watched the extended versions; Wow! Of course I was rather ticked off at some of the things they added (Arwen instead of Glorfindel, Helms Deep, Osgilliath, the stairs of Cirith Ungul, etc.) but over all, it was incredible! Haha 15 is where it's at around here! So cool that you have so many readers in your fam!
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Post by Synariel The Admin on Dec 17, 2021 0:17:33 GMT
I have two older sisters who love to read as much as I do, I was reading the books as soon as I was allowed to. I read it for the first time at age 12; I still read it once or twice a year(sometimes more than that). On my fifteenth birthday I was given permission to watch the movies (Wow, it seems like age fifteen is the right age to watch the movies ) I was obsessed, I was rather sad when we finished watching the last one. Then I watched the extended versions; Wow! Of course I was rather ticked off at some of the things they added (Arwen instead of Glorfindel, Helms Deep, Osgilliath, the stairs of Cirith Ungul, etc.) but over all, it was incredible! Haha I guess so! ๐ Wow you must know the books so well!!! ๐ I was so disappointed after reading the books and finding out that Glorfindel was a thing and they didn't show him at all in the movie! A few years ago, my brother and I watched the animated LOTR and when that part came up I was like "Oh! Glorfindel! He'll probably be in this version!" And then suddenly Aragorn runs across the screen going "Legรณlas!!!" We busted out laughing but I was quite disappointed again too haha. ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ
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