Mail Bag End - The Lord Of The Rings Listener Mail Special
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Welcome to a mailbag special dedicated to your correspondence about The Lord Of The Rings.
Our episodes on Peter Jackson's films have been far and away our most popular so far. It seems that you love them as much as we do, and this is the perfect time of the year to revisit Middle-earth.
Anyway - if you've listened to the individual episodes on The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return Of The King, you'll know that in each one we ran out of time to read and answer your mail. We're setting that right in this episode, with a full hour dedicated to your questions, comments, and theories.
Next week the adventure continues with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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The Ditum household madlibs were hilarious, well done!
Please please please do a commentary, this has been so awsome to listen to and selfishly i wont more. Hearing the three of you mirroring my own thoughts and emotions about these movie is brilliant.
You want good pacing, theatrical. You want fries and a hearty milkshake with that LotR burger, extended editions!
Elijah Wood had a great idea for how to adapt the Silmarillion. He said it should be done as a pseudo-historical TV series, treating the books as if they were real history. Something that would have a narrator, dramatizations, experts talking about different aspects, interviews, etc. Imagine Brian Cox talking about the story of Earendil, or Mary Beard explaining the political landscape of Gondor. (How lovely it would be if we could have had Sister Wendy Beckett talk about Elvish art!) I think it would be wonderful, probably the only way you could bring that book to an audience, and it might even get the green light from the Tolkien Estate. (They're the main reason we will not be getting any more adaptations of Tolkien's work, you know. If we get anything, it'll only be (probably bad) fanfic on the order of that horrible Amazon thing.)
Loved the extended editions of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. They improved the films even more got them on 4K as well
Aragorn says Legolas' name when they exit Moria, and quite loudly too. However, I so much like the theory that Frodo doesn't know it that I can believe Frodo just didn't hear Aragorn in that moment, as he was standing quite far away on a large rock, weeping.
What a treat it was for me to realize my new favorite movie podcast also has a playthrough of my favorite game FF7. You guys rock!
I do miss the days of really nice DVD/Blu-Ray boxes, especially with the raised lettering. I'd love to get a great 4K Remaster of the Extended Trilogy, no need to disc swap halfway through, and have it all in a nice box.
The comment about the black gate sliding is 100% spot on.
It doesn't make any sense how the 2 soldiers cannot see Frodo sliding down, as they look up after Sam falls, but before Frodo gets to him. There isn't enough in the way between the soldiers and Frodo, he should be clearly visible.
According to Wikipedia, these are the lengths/differences of the different versions of the films, including the credits:
The Fellowship of the Ring - 2 hr, 58 min -> 3 hr, 28 min
The Two Towers - 2 hr, 59 min -> 3 hr, 43 min
The Return of the King - 3 hr, 21 min -> 4 hr, 12 min
Total runtime - 9 hr, 18 min -> 11 hr, 23 min
And I love every last minute tbh!
LOVE these lord of the rings discussions. Never seen the hobbit movies (except for the river barrels scene) but now might to follow along with you guys.
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Once you've seen the Extended versions it's impossible to go back to the Theatricals, imo. There's a few additions which you wouldn't exactly miss if they didn't feature but the majority of the added content improves it so much and there are some aspects which I can't imagine not seeing in terms of the complete experience.
Christ don't think I've ever searched for anything as quick as the ballad of bilbo baggins
00:05:25 Didn't Shatner also do a cover of "Lucy in the sky with diamonds"?🤔😁
Love the Podcast. If any of you haven't seen Dark City I think you would really like it. Would be awesome to hear a discussion of that movie. Great Sci-fi flick.
Extended editions are better, no contest.
For Eowyn’s “I am no man” line, I’m just glad they cut the subsequent, “You look upon a woman,” from the novel, as I’ve always felt it clumsily over-explains the idea, especially when in the visual medium.
Tolkein's language in the 3rd book always struck me as terribly overwrought. Way too man thees and thous in it.
(there's a letter about this, of course)
Anyone else find it funny how Rob says cinema? Cinemarrrr
British people do that a lot, words that end in 'A' get an extra r for some reason. It's usually subtle, but you'll hear it if you're looking out for it.
Dave, watch Skeleton Crew; it's great!
Nathan is incorrect about Aragorn's sword.
He gets that before leaving Rivendell, what the Grey Company brings is a Royal Banner Arwen made
Yes, you nailed it. I realized after getting to that point in the BBC adaptation but it was TOO LATE
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it's the problem with the subject matter, you attract sad obsessives like me
Who spent the weekend painting Rohirrim figures 🤣
Whose mum read LoTR aa a young girl when first published
Whose wife is another obsessive
'Quenya' is pronounced 'Kwen-ye'.
Please video this podcast! I don’t care if it’s on zoom or whatever.
Second this, would love to see the gang too.
What's it got in its mail bag precious?
I believe the theatrical release was a more intended version of the film according to Peter himself. He mentions the extended editions are purely for Tolkien fans. And I agree. The pacing was so much better in the original release. The extended editions had some awkward framing, acting and relevance to where those extra scenes are in the film. I do have the EX editions on DVD but I don't watch them as much as the original movies. That's a lot of time to sit in one place.
Have you ever listened to the commentary on the extended editions? I believe he essentially says the opposite there.
I love this show, and I love the guys, they're brilliant. However, while I understand their frustrations with the Hobbit trilogy and its divergence from the source material, I don't understand how they can continually reference The Rings of Power with some appreciation, when that show literally dropkicks the lore into the Sea.
Also, the clowning around of the Dwarfs, is it not on point when compared to Gimli's numerous moments of acting the clown?
Rings Of Power isn't based on a solid book in the same way though. There are no scenes or dialogue to take from. It's a bigger invention as a whole, and gets some leeway for that. We're not huge fans, just... don't hate it.