Comments on: Top 100 Movies of All Time Fellowship of the Ring

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 21:13:49 +0000

That’s awesome Shelb,
I’ve probably read them all 3 or 4 times and I don’t consider my self but a casual fan. But I do love them all, I’ve even read the Silmarillion twice? Even though it’s basically incomprehensible.

But like your dad, my favorite was reading them to my kids a couple years ago. They are now starting to read the series for themselves and are enjoying it now that they are a bit older.

And the lord of the rings movies are the best adaptations of a book ever made. Really amazing. (Surprising seeing as though Peter Jackson is generally a hack otherwise.) But I will say that the Hobbit “trilogy” is hot trash. Like?!? Why? (Money… yes the root of all evil… did Smaug teach him anything?!? Hahahah.)

Thanks for the comment.

By: shelbzilla

shelbzilla — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:59:10 +0000

my dad received the lotr trilogy book set as a kid in the 60s and fell in love. he bought all the companion books and everything so he could learn all the lore. cut to 30 years later, my dad would read the hobbit to me as a kid as part of my bedtime routine. then he would go into my older sister’s room and read lotr (i would sometimes join them although i had no idea what was happening in the plot lol)

the hobbit’s riddles in the dark chapter was always my favorite and i still sometimes go back and reread just that chapter. and as a teen i read the original trilogy. so we loved these stories and held them close to our hearts

so when this movie came to theaters when i was in middle school, we went to see it many times, bought the dvd,, and i may or may not have memorized the fellowship movie dialogue (i also did a monologue in theater class in high school of the intro spoken by galadriel from the first film). it’s a touching story and it’s really cool that you can go as surface or as deep as you want with the additional resources that tolkien provided

now fellowship is probably my favorite of the trilogy because of the transition from hobbiton and the shire to the real world which is cruel and full of people whose intentions you don’t know. it’s a nice metaphor for growing up even if tolkien never intended it to be a metaphor. but of course i love the entire trilogy and all 3 movies definitely still hold up!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 14:23:59 +0000

This trilogy of films are historic I believe because they set the stage for other stories thought to be unfilmable (is that even a word?) to be able to be put to screen. Some better than others of course. I admit I have not read the books but I’ve always meaner to and probably still will at some point. But to have an epic story such as this be able to translate to the screen is an amazing feat so they all belong on this list as far as I’m concerned. I actually watched these all together back to back during the course of a day with a friend. I didn’t think I would love them as much as I wound up doing so. It’s a timeless story.

Speaking of unfilmable (word?) things I’ve been watching Foundation on Apple TV. I haven’t read the books but I read the story is so vast that the entire season only captures about 1/5 of the first book!

If you enjoy learning how movies came to be the show on Netflix called The Movies That Made Us is fascinating. They just unleashed a new bunch of episodes about horror films in time for Halloween which happens to be the first episode. I found the backstory of John Carpenter and Wes Craven to be really interesting but there are other episodes that are about non horror films as well. Go watch it! You won’t be disappointed.