Here are the 15 Bizarre Things Cut From The Lord Of The Rings Books. Some of these made their way into the LotR appendices, others included in subsequent stories and the rest left to die on the cutting room floor, quickly forgotten like poor ole Sean Bean laying on a bunch of leaves in a random forest. However, when first writing his epic, Tolkien left no idea, plot line, or arkenstone unturned. In hindsight they seem as odd as a slimy, bug-eyed skinny creature with a total disregard for good grammar. What follows are funny factoids, interesting tidbits, and mind blowing concepts that didn't make it into the books and subsequent movies, and would surprise even the greatest of Hobbit-heads. However, would we remember them so fondly if some of the items removed from the original stories had made their way into the final edit? Tolkien's Lord of the Ringssaga, or the bonafide success of the Peter Jackson films that followed. Filled with wizards, orcs, elves, fiery eyeballs, yet another Sean Bean death and a whole lot of hairy big feet, they are filled with no end of fantastically entertaining fantasy that ensure a long and lasting legacy.
No one can deny the lasting brilliance of J.R.R.
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That said I’ve been enjoying the series quite a bit, and I’ve always been sad when the podcast ended because there’s still so much more there worth discussing.Three books to rule them all, three movies to adapt them, millions of strange ideas to start them all, and in the bright light of day scrap them. Even so, some days you’ve just got to stand up for principle: I can rattle off the seven sons of Feanor, and if I were to sketch out a map of Middle Earth right now it’d include such locations as Fornost and the Sea of Nurinen. Reread it again last year, including all the appendices. Look, I read the series twice in the 7th grade alone. (The same amount of time between Frodo acquiring it and going on the quest, btw.) You can read it in Sauron Defeated, vol. Then the triple secret ending is the epilogue that was eventually cut, which happens 17 years after the destruction of the Ring. I’m thinking I’m going to count the tale of the deaths of Aragorn and Arwen as a double secret ending. Return of the King, as we all know, ends time after time again. Hank Rhody, Badgeless Bandito (View Comment ): Tons of fun, and the Risk mode was indeed fantastic. I loved Battle for Middle-earth back in the day. Just that he provided the justification himself, and we don’t have to create other ones. I’m not saying it was a mistake or that he shouldn’t have used it. “Train” may have been in general usage, but “express train”? That’s a distinctly turn-of-the-century phrase.
I keep waiting for someone to make the Skyrim / Oblivion of Middle Earth. The rise of the Witch King in the north, the conquest of Arnor, and the push back to Angmar could be a thrilling spinoff from Tolkien’s ideas. The co-op War of the Ring mode that combined RISK-style map strategy with real-time battles (sometimes with 5 armies!) was superb.īut the setting too fascinates me. If you enjoy RTS games, it rivals Shadow of Mordor for the best Middle Earth game ever. But did y’all ever play LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth 2 and its Rise of the Witch-King expansion? It is undoubtedly the best narrative-oriented video game ever based on Tolkien’s works.
Shadow of Mordor is fantastic (the sequel is an epic and beautiful mess). Like others before him, he took the name of a predecessor not only in honor but in expression of a philosophical likeness. Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI. Some editions print the entire work into a single volume, following the authors original intent. Perhaps the dwarven repetition hearkens less to reincarnation than to papal history. Structurally, the work is divided internally into six books, two per volume, with several appendices of background material at the end. “Train” was used by the 16th century to mean a procession of people or animals.
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