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If you’re really into the trilogy you may want to find a theater airing all three director’s cuts (set your ADT system firstyou’ll be gone a long time!) or you could just watch them at home. If you’re really into the films you’re probably wondering who our favorite characters are – let us tell you
Sauron: Yeah, we know he’s evil but he sure Read the rest of this entry »

A Balrog of Morgoth. Those words of Gandalf’s terrorized even Legolas, an eternal being who did not fear much. In the movie, the vision of the smoking, flaming Balrog with bat-like wings emerging from the shadows of Moria revealed a true match for our favorite wizard.

With those huge wings, however, comes question: does the Balrog fly?

Interestingly there is no mention in any of Tolkien’s books of a Balrog flying. During their fight, the beast fell when Gandalf struck the bridge.Additional information can be found at http://epicbrew.net/2011/09/18/geek-speak-weekly-balrogs/. They then climbed the Read the rest of this entry »

Peter Jackson’s exclusion of the Scouring of the Shire from The Return of the King, the last film in the Lord of the Ring’s Trilogy, was a mistake, but not a fatal one.

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece, the hobbits return to the Shire from the War of the Ring. The One Ring has been destroye and they expect to resume their untroubled lives. But they find out quickly that the Shire is now under occupation by a bunch of cruel Big People called Ruffians, who answer to a Read the rest of this entry »

The death of Saruman at the hands of Grima Wormtongue presents a unique end to one of the primary antagonists in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Whereas many characters perish throughout the trilogy, Saruman’s ending is unique in that it suggests a total annihilation, a dissipation that men, elves, dwarfs, hobbits and the evil races alike never suffer.

Though it goes unstated, the Wizards Saruman, Gandalf, Radagast and others are likely Maia, sent from Valinor to oppose Read the rest of this entry »

The Bromance thing came from some slightly warped minds piecing film clips together in such a way that exaggerates the relationship between the two hobbits, sometimes in ways that are borderline perverted. Then, uploading these clips for the world to see. I admit it makes for a good laugh. Still, I worry that people who have never read the books or through the 10 plus hours of video will form a misguided opinion about the nature of this classical tale. I guarantee that in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien never Read the rest of this entry »

He should have at least been nominated. His role was very complex. Just because his actual face wasn’t shown onscreen for any but the last movie, and that was just for a few minutes, his physical movements and facial expressions were used to enhance the character Gollum.
For every scene that Gollum was in Andy Serkis had to act it out. He had to do all the physical contortions and gyrations so the computer could capture every nuance of his performance. Not Read the rest of this entry »

Legolas and Gimli, contemptuous of each other initially the pair grow to be incredibly close friends throughout the course of the story. So close that it is easy to see similarities between the arc of their relationship in the Lord of the Rings and modern day “bromances”.
From entirely different cultures, their values and attitudes incredibly abrasive to each other, the pair is forced together with the weight of the free world on their backs. The movies frequently Read the rest of this entry »

One of the biggest complaints that movie goers often have is that the characters or plots of movies often stray greatly from the books off of which the films are based, most notably with female characters. “Foxfire,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “The Twilight Saga,” and “A Walk to Remember” are all novels where the lead female characters differ greatly from their literature based counterparts.

In the film, “A Walk to Remember,” Mandy Moore portrays Jamie Sullivan, a southern preacher’s daughter with Read the rest of this entry »