Lord of the Rings Movies

Aside from the stunning effects that left everyone both awe-struck and love-struck, there are many things that can be learned after watching the movie.

One strong evidence is that it pulled people together to watch it despite the fact that it originated from a book, and folks would have the mindset that “you will fail to understand it unless you will start reading it”.

It stirs some sort of curiosity how the movie had reached even those who are not really LOTR fans, but what really matters is that the message came across them – friendship, courage, determination, love, and the like.

Row, Row, Row the Boat

Read under one of LOTR fansites again, one writer observed something in relation to the movie-book tie-up.

“In the book, as the fellowship is rowing away from Lothlorien, Lord Celeborn and Lady Galadriel ride a swan shaped ship out to the middle of the river to wish them well on their journey and to share one last meal with them. If you watch the scene carefully, I believe it’s on the right hand side of the screen, there really is a swan shaped ship docked by the shore.”

Blatantly, viewers, especially the hardcore fans have a really keen eye with details regarding their favorite movie.

With so much thrill brought about by the LOTR to the old and young alike, it would be good to take a sneak on the unknown realms of the movie. This entry inspired by The Fellowship of the Ring Installation of the trilogy.

Elrond and Galadriel are only two of the elven ring bearers in the movie although it was not directly mentioned in any scene in LOTR. It is in Galadriel’s middle finger, as seen as she bids goodbye to the fellowship. On the other hand, Gandalf holds the third ring. He starred in all three cuts of the movie.

The cast of the movie are perfectly normal, although they all look really perfect all throughout the movie [come on, let's just admit it]. There are a lot of unknown quirks brought about by several cast members. Look who had his own style of flying back and fro to the set. Because of fear, for the scenes that were shot in the misty mountains, the cast had to be flown to some sites, Sean Bean is afraid of flying and so walked for two hours to get to the top of the mountain for shooting. Whew, now that’s way tiring.

(Source: A Rough Guide to the Lord of the Rings)

Dark Lord Sauron, who was disembodied when the One Ring was cut off from his hand, is the personification of evil in the Lord of the Rings movies. This guy didn’t have a drop of good in him, not one bit. Staying in his tower, the Barad-dur, he employs other creatures of darkness to do his dirty work for him, and find the one thing that could possibly restore his former form and power. Greed keeps him alive. Not satisfied with being able to command numerous creatures and still have a vast amount of power, he still wants more. Good thing that the good side always wins, because a world with Sauron as one of its superpowers might be the reincarnation of hell on earth. Yikes.

Personally, I wasn’t into the hype set by the Lord of the Ring trilogies. I was more into the Harry Potter series because the characters were younger and the plot was easier to understand. When I tried watching the film for the first time, I just slept around halfway of the first film.

Don’t get me wrong. The film was good but for me it was sort of boring because I didn’t quite understand some plots. But when I read the book, I found it engrossing and thus understood the film when I had the chance to watch it again.

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As previously noted, the Lord of the Rings trilogy was only a sequel to Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”. As with other highly successful movies like X-Men, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Superman, one can assume that the producers of the trilogy would like to extend their earnings by making sequels or prequels. Unfortunately, no other film was made with regard to the LotR trilogy under the production company New Line Cinema as of the moment. Maybe after a few years, they might produce these prequels but the nect problem would be that the LotR hype would have died down by then.

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Since the Book can contain a much larger time frame than a film, certain parts of the book were changed in order to fit it all in the three films.

Some changes were made to the characters of Aragorn and Frodo. Changes were also made to certain events like the participation of elves in the Battle. There were also some parts of the Book that were deleted like the chapter of the Scouring of the Shire and some were added.

The film only followed the basic plot of the book while diverging from the characterization of the main characters.

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The film was distributed by New Line Cinema with an overall budget of $280 million and is considered one of the biggest movie projects made. The project spanned eight years in production in New Zealand due to its large demand in props, design and actors.

This undertaking gained such good reviews and good returns at the box office. The LotR trilogy earned a whopping $2.92 billion in movie sales. It also earned a number of Academy Award citations with a total of 30 nominations wherein 17 were won including Best Direction and Best Picture for the Return of the King.

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The films were set in the world of Middle Earth wherein the story revolves around the adventures of a young hobbit named Frodo Baggins played by Elijah Wood. The story is basically into the destruction of the One Ring and will lead to the destruction of the Dark Lord Sauron. But conflict arises and Frodo’s called the Fellowship is broken and Frodo is left with some companions to continue the quest. Other characters like Gandalf and Aragorn unite with the people and battle the wizard Saruman until his defeat. Ultimately, the Ring is destroyed and the Evil forces are defeated.

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