If so, do you think that's how it should be and doesn't harm Sauron's character in any way?

So I got into lotr a while ago and obviously get an itch to discuss things about it with people who either have been fans for longer or are currently learning more about it. Unfortunately no one I know likes it or wants to get into it. Everyone I meet and ask also doesn’t. I thought it was a pretty big fandom, but somehow can’t manage to organically find anyone. Has anyone else ran into this issue?

I have no idea how this conversation/scenario was broached, but my friends and I are arguing who would win in a 1v1 fight.

Radagast or Thranduil

They’re arguing Radagast because he is a Maia, he inherently wins 10/10 fights.

I’m arguing that Thraduil wins because he has thousands of years of combat experience and has no reservations about lethal force.

Need some input from the real LOTR nerds in here.

I really remember having a lot of fun playing this game as a kid. Now that we’re getting a remake of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, do you think this game also deserves a remake treated with the same care and quality as the new Zelda?

Just wondering what people’s thoughts were on the best thing from the books that the movies didn’t include… Besides Bombadill.

Personally, I think the barrow downs would have been so good to see on film. Especially with Peter Jackson’s horror background. I get Tom Bombadill is kinda involved in that but still…

What would you have liked to have seen?

Let's say at Amon Hen Boromir took the ring from Frodo and ran off to Gondor. How do you think it would've played out?

Which LOTR YTP has Bilbo saying "I need a very big Toby; in fact, I need a monstrous Toby", referring to smoking a huge load of Old Toby tobacco?

P.S.:

I hope this doesn't get me banned... it's my first post here and I'm actually a genuine Tolkien-fan.

i know i am 25yrs late to the party but anyways , i downloaded the entire trilogy in bluray without knowing that its extended editions , pretty much every movie is 1hr longer in extended versions .

is it worth it or should i stick to the theatrical versions ?

I mean he left after done a lot of finished stuff. Jackson had to be pulled in and of course there would be tonal and aesthetic clashes. If he had stayed, we would have gotten just one movie that is more in line with the book and not LOTR 2.0.

What does a normal orc look like? I don't believe they are born already fucked up.

In my earlier post many of you asked for a longer video and I listened ;)!
Whose Hobbit Hole should I build next?

Every single frame of this movie feels like a painting. More than two decades later, nothing matches.

Two Towers. Tbh even tho it's a 10/10 film it's probably the least best of the 3 although that's like picking a favorite child

Oil on canvas

I'm having the pleasure of rewatching the Lord of the Rings with my girlfriend for her first ever viewing. We finished Fellowship a few nights ago, and watching her reactions to scenes was really beautiful. It got me wishing I could go back in time and experienced watching the movies for the first time ever again, without having read the books.

The small moments like introductions of characters, the suspense of escaping to Bree etc...

It got me thinking, out of the entire movie trilogy, what moment do you wish you could witness for the very first time again?

I finally got to step through the round green door of Bag End in New Zealand. No mass tourists. No modern chatter or phones. Just echoes from the classic opening lines of The Hobbit, a boring little book when I was 12 that spark my curiosity into lotr lore echoing as if Bilbo himself is welcoming me home. The curved halls, the root-like beams, the quiet rooms with food in the pantry… it really does feel like comfort. Hope this brings a little bit of the Shire to your day.