For The Hobbit films, Peter never expected to work on them, had health issues, was thrown curveballs throughout the process (going from 2 films to 3, for example), and basically improvised the entire trilogy. He blocked them out and filmed them with a massive budget, a polished crew, and a studio that had been there and done that. This was noticeable. For The Lord of the Rings, Peter was hungry and passionate to work on the story, was thoroughly detailed during the entire process, kept referring to the source material, and spent 4 years preparing before filming the first shots. He was with a crew who were nobodies, but who loved the story and the world, and were getting to conceptualize it from the ground-up with a relatively small budget. This was also noticeable.
Well that only explains it partly. The books are much different from each other. The lotr is much more serious adventure with perfectly good amount of humor placed here and there in the movies where as the hobbit is basically more intended for children as was the book and I feel like people expected another serious adventure, but instead got a childrens movie with over the top scenes and too much trying to be funny all the time. It's just so much harder to relate or feel any kind of emotions towards the new character from the hobbit because the movie didn't take itself seriously. Another part is that it doesn't look as good as the lotr. When CGI technology was really just surfacing they had to use more extras, build real sets, scale models and so on which made the world look alive and real where as in hobbit CGI was used much more and it just doesn't feel the same. This can be seen in so many movies these days and I really wish movie makers would go back to times like jurassic park and lotr and didn't so heavily rely on CGI. I can already see that the upcoming amazon series are going to be 100% CGI garbage.
@@starwart2000 Oh I even read Tolkien only spent 5 pages on the battle of the five armies! Was it 50? Well in any way, it wasn't right for an entire (mostly digitally created) 3 hour movie, that's for sure! I would have been perfectly fine with the death of Smaug and a "they lived happily ever after" ending compared to the 3rd movie that was basically boring, not credible whatsoever and had a stupid ending.
Every time I watch the extended editions bonus material, I feel like I’m right there with these amazing people! It’s so delightful, and I can’t get enough of these experiences.😃😌🧙♂️🧝♂️🧝♀️☕️👍
It's not a coincidence that LOTR is still one of the best films/worlds ever made. It makes sense, seeing the amount of work & passion that went into this massive production. Mindblowing. I can not imagine this being realised today. I don't understand how they managed their budgets
@BENJAMIN PHILLIPS Thats kind of true. It's just that the mainstream and blockbuster market is tainted. Few good movies are actually also "big movies". Dune was a nice exception imho. EDIT: Or Mad Max: Fury Road - possibly one of the best ACTION (!) movies. I said action movies. Not movies.
There is something so incredibly endearing about John Howe and Alan Lee. It feels like they became the special ingredient to the heart of these movies. Peter really nailed it by going out of his way to find them and get them on board.
It's so satisfying watching this and knowing that they had no clue how much of an impact they would make, and that all this yardwork paid off into the greatest and most respected films ever made
Imagine you could have been there, done it with them. Nothing would have topped that experience. I still regret not being a part of it XD. I did so first when I was like 11 and watched these the first time, lol. The companionship and shit is so fuckin nice and insane :>
Just Wow! All of it! Everything and everyone involved in the film making process... these incredible books that inspired and touched so many people... All of it is just Wow!!!
The number of things that had to go _just right,_ and could have gone so wrong... the number of people who had to just happen to contribute some small part that added _just the right touch_ -- it's mind-boggling. Any of that could have gone wrong. All it would have taken is the studio exec to say no, or want only one or two films, and the LotR film(s) would not have become even a *shadow* of what they actually became -- *the greatest films ever made.*
Let alone their sequels be better than the first film! The ending of Return of the King has to be the most perfect ending in movie history. We didn’t need anything more or anything less and was most satisfying and just imagine if everything else was perfect but the ending left a hole in you. We wouldn’t have remembered the rest of the brilliant films as we do now. Still In Awe. Dune is my only hope to get that same feeling I did with LOTR.
Fun Fact: The decrepit looking orc general in Return of the King that steps away at the last second to avoid a huge rock from a catapult squashing him, was based on Harvey Weinstein. Peter Jackson pitched the trilogy to Miramax first and Weinstein told Jackson to make it into one film. They didn’t part on good terms so Peter made a fat ugly orc in the image of Weinstein once New Line believed in Peter and let him make 3 films. There’s a lot of awesome trivia for the original trilogy.
Lol! So I'm not the only one who felt that way! 🤣 Both Alan Lee and John Howe btw. They are the incredible asmr duo lol! Plus they're also so incredibly talented! I wish I could draw like that 😍
Am I just easily impressed or was Jackson doing a pretty decent job at acting? I'm not the best judge of quality on the subject, it could've been bad and I probably wouldn't know.
Man I just have to say that these appendices are extremely enjoyable and above all eye-opening for how I look at these films. They go so much into depth about how they were made and it's amazing
I bought the box set back in the day and I LOVED IT. These Appendices were just great so interesting. I'm 70 now and I wanted to move to NZ and work for WETA!! LOL!
Jackson went and sold Weta to a larger company, Unity, so that it’s tech will be “democratized” and people all over can use it to contribute to the stupid, in my opinion, metaverse.
@@senoritaaurora5123 Avatar in the making came "almost" close to what Jackson and his Crew did in LotR. The making of Avatar is something everyone who likes this kind of stuff should watch.
It’s great how they just sat down and sketched the whole location the way it’s going to look like. THAT‘S a creative process! The whole movie, from start to finish.
We owe these people so much. It looks like everyone involved put their heart and soul into every miniscule detail, truly making the movie with love and not just to get the job done. It blows my mind... And they gave us the greatest trilogy there will ever be. I can't watch them without crying, they mean so much to me
The effort and dedication everyone put in making the movies is unbelievable. Thank you for making these masterpieces of inspiration and admiration to all of us.
The passion, commitment and skill that went into these movies is truly extraordinary. More than deserves its place in cinematic history. These appendices are testament to that and are an absolute joy to watch, even decades later.
If you hear a light scratching on your closet door and the sounds of distant mournful wailing at midnight, whatever you do, remain hidden under your covers. You will feel the presence of the floating head, quietly hovering over your bed. Keep still and quiet your breathing, the head will wait patiently for you make a mistake. If you can stop yourself from shitting the bed until sunrise, the head will depart and leave you unharmed. until next time….
Much praise to the people making these making ofs. They are hands down the best, most-extensive, totally encompassing making ofs of all time. They just seem so endless and even longer than the films themselves. There’s a clip for every sentence a person says.
Jesus, the pre vis , play, storyboard, animatic, cartoon. No wonder the films were great He shot it like 5 times before he actually filmed it No wonder the Hobbit stunk
peter admits he had to wing it when doing the hobbit. he's a hero for stepping in at the last minute and agreeing to direct the films. he saved a lot of kiwi jobs.
@@BenjamUniverse do it right or don't do it. I also remember a lot of kiwis being pissed by his dismissive attitude to their labor concerns. This was not some beautiful generous act
The whole crew of LOTR is like a fantasy world of its own, I'm sure for many of them today it feels like a dream to them, what they did on LOTR has never been captured since even by them on the Hobbit.
Nicholas cage, Russell Crowe, Kate Winslet Daniel day Lewis, Umar thurman, Ethan Hawke, Lucy lawless. Sean Connery is the funniest though, he was offered 15% of the box office and 30 million upfront. 15% of 3 billion. He let 480million dollars slip through his hands and thank god for that because Ian mckellen was made for the role of Gandalf.
My fathers wedding ring looks exactly like the one ring (tho my parents married in 1989) so when I was a kid I used to take his ring from the nightstand and pretend I was Frodo after the seeing the movies. Then my mom would yell at me saying I might lose it lmfaooo
I read the Hobbit and I loved it. I watched the Hobbit before The Lord of the Rings so I was blown away with the Hobbit and I loved that too. The attention to detail like the butterflies above Mirkwood was mindboggling for me, especially because I had seen How to train your Dragon and how they changed the plot, added new characters, removed the villain and Quest for the King's Lost Things etc. I thought because of this, no book could have ever been made accurately enough and noone would care enough to pay attention to detail. Then I read the Lord of the Rings. Then I watched it. And I loved that too. Many people didn't like the Hobbit because they had already seen LOTR and had high expectations. Also, the Hobbit isn't as deep eg addictive power of the ring, friendship, fleshed out characters etc. That's just how the book is. It's simply about how a hobbit unexpectedly went on an adventure and found a ring and helped kill a dragon. That's it. No hectic darkness, no romance, no corruption, no terrible betrayal, there's 13 dwarves with flat character developments, sure there's tension, but not like in lotr. It's a prequel anyways, so it couldn't have met the same standards as lotr. Tolkien wrote it 15 years or so before the Hobbit so he was less experienced if I can say that I mean he was a professor in English literature. Stop killing the Hobbit. You couldn't have done better. LOTR had deep themes, detailed characters, and an intense, heavy plot emphasising characteristics, personalities and themes. Two seperate stories linked together by three characters, Bilbo, Gollum and Gandalf.
When I first watched the hobbit movies, I loved them (mostly 1 and 2. 3 is really "meh", most of it feel quite strech out). I hadn't read the book, and so yes I was expecting some kind of lotr 2. But still, i found them really nice! Then I read the book. I think the movies are "too serious/dark" in comparison. And then I rewatched the movies, and I can't say they are a good adaptations. Sure all the events happen, but the third movie is unnecessary. They also add to much information about Sauron. I find Thorin quite annoying also in the first movie, while in the book he seems quite well behaving. Also Legolas as nothing to do here. I don't mind Tauriel but I don't really like the romance, it's kinda strange and out of nowhere. I think the book would have been adapted better if the movies were created before the lotr movies. The studio wouldn't have try to make it "lotr2". It would have been less serious, with no useless romance, nor to much exposition about Sauron (that goes nowhere in those movies anyway if you don't look at the lotr movies after). And I don't think I'm someone who want no "liberties in adaptations". If stuff are changed, or added and it work why not! For exemple, I like the idea of having one of the dwarf sick (with kili and the arrow), because then you see that some of the dwarfs prefers helping him that to continue on the aventure. It's kinda sweet, it make them more interesting I feel. I still have fun watching these movies, I just wanted to point out "wanting lotr2" isn't the only reason to find those movies "meh" ^^
Ted Nasmith was also originally supposed to work on the films, which would have brought the "Holy Trinity" of Tolkien artists together as one unit. Nasmith unfortunately declined the offer due to personal issues at the time. Even then, many scenes in the trilogy had definite influence from Nasmith, particularly the Mount Doom sequence in ROTK. Jackson bought the rights to a particular painting done by Nasmith, that being 'The Plains of Gorgoroth,' and used it as reference in a scene where the camera pans across Gorgoroth with Frodo and Sam appearing as just tiny figures in the background.
I highly doubt there will be documentaries on how rings of power was made. That show doesn't have 1/10 the work and love these people put into the original lotr trilogy
Except for leftists...they see an object of beauty and only want to destroy it and replace it with false idols and evil doctrines. The end of the West is nigh.
@Anon Anon don't really do fan culture , live off grid in the mountains with my ponies and dogs, ,,also am old and have read the books and silmarilian ,multiple times ,, I'd kinda waited all my life for the film ,3more years was nothing,🤣also i was afraid they would change the story too much and I'd be disappointed ,,but obviously i was Not disapointed👌♥️🦅 Thank you for your reply , but I'm not sure what fan culture is ,is it kinda on line chats and discussions? Have a lovely day , love from spanish mountians🐎🌄🐾🐕♥️🌍🦅
@Anon Anon yes i socialise, 🤣🥂🎶,when the film was being made i was living in cambridge ,singing with 2 bands ,writing songs etc ; Looking after my ponies ,and converting my truck to to live in ,in spain.so bit busy i guess,,,off grid now ,but have better tech than ever before,🤣🎶🪶🐎🐕🦅🔥🌄♥️
These really put into perspective the difference between LOTR and Hobbit. They had over 3 years of pre-production time to get everything ready for LOTR. They didn’t even have a full year for Hobbit. All of the story boarding, pre-viz work, model building, on location set building they did for Rings; Peter Jackson wasn’t able to do any of that for Hobbit. Really sucks.
I personally wish the hobbit was produced with the same kind of resource and manpower, I know they say that could never be done again, but to me if it can't be done right, don't do it at all.
@@kittycat8170 Budget Total (3 films): $281 million Box office Total (3 films): $2.981 billion And more... As of 2017, The Lord of the Rings films had a home media revenue of more than $2.4 billion.
take not Disney. thats how you make films. who would have thought twenty years ago disney would be responsible for films even worse then the prequels and destroying an IP that had been strong for 40 years before their hack frauds started making 'movies'.
Unless you are the Tolkien family. With Hollywood's evil accounting methods, it shows that the franchise lost money. This is done just to screw copyright holders out of royalties and is, unfortunately, all too common in hypocritical Hollywood, who claims to value the "small guy" and "hate corporations."
At 30:07, for any of "my fellow Americans" who are confused, the word "homely" is being used with the same meaning as our word "homey." In the U.S., "homely" usually means "unattractive," but also "plain, simple, unpretentious, lacking refinement."
Amazing if they created a LOTR world. Like universal did with Harry Potter. If you could walk all these sets. I’ve been to hobbiton in NZ and it’s beautiful but would love to walk some of the sets. Or see the bigatures up close
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For The Hobbit films, Peter never expected to work on them, had health issues, was thrown curveballs throughout the process (going from 2 films to 3, for example), and basically improvised the entire trilogy. He blocked them out and filmed them with a massive budget, a polished crew, and a studio that had been there and done that. This was noticeable.
For The Lord of the Rings, Peter was hungry and passionate to work on the story, was thoroughly detailed during the entire process, kept referring to the source material, and spent 4 years preparing before filming the first shots. He was with a crew who were nobodies, but who loved the story and the world, and were getting to conceptualize it from the ground-up with a relatively small budget. This was also noticeable.
@Mike A I think the films are alright decently enjoyable but thats about it.
@Boba Fett Battle of Five Armies was like the last 50 pages of the book lmao. Definitely should have been a two parter. The studio got greedy.
Well that only explains it partly. The books are much different from each other. The lotr is much more serious adventure with perfectly good amount of humor placed here and there in the movies where as the hobbit is basically more intended for children as was the book and I feel like people expected another serious adventure, but instead got a childrens movie with over the top scenes and too much trying to be funny all the time. It's just so much harder to relate or feel any kind of emotions towards the new character from the hobbit because the movie didn't take itself seriously.
Another part is that it doesn't look as good as the lotr. When CGI technology was really just surfacing they had to use more extras, build real sets, scale models and so on which made the world look alive and real where as in hobbit CGI was used much more and it just doesn't feel the same. This can be seen in so many movies these days and I really wish movie makers would go back to times like jurassic park and lotr and didn't so heavily rely on CGI.
I can already see that the upcoming amazon series are going to be 100% CGI garbage.
@@starwart2000 Oh I even read Tolkien only spent 5 pages on the battle of the five armies! Was it 50? Well in any way, it wasn't right for an entire (mostly digitally created) 3 hour movie, that's for sure! I would have been perfectly fine with the death of Smaug and a "they lived happily ever after" ending compared to the 3rd movie that was basically boring, not credible whatsoever and had a stupid ending.
@@deslow7411 totally agree!
Can't sit through 10 min of studying, can totally watch 2h of Lotr how it was made
Every time I watch the extended editions bonus material, I feel like I’m right there with these amazing people! It’s so delightful, and I can’t get enough of these experiences.😃😌🧙♂️🧝♂️🧝♀️☕️👍
Turns out, it's super cool to watch committed people talk about creating something incredible that they love.
SAME BRO. Im trying to plan a science project rn...
100 percent accuracy.
thanks for this..so true haha
It's not a coincidence that LOTR is still one of the best films/worlds ever made. It makes sense, seeing the amount of work & passion that went into this massive production. Mindblowing. I can not imagine this being realised today. I don't understand how they managed their budgets
The last good films ever produced.
Hollywood budgets are horribly over-inflated! They were basically starting from scratch.
@BENJAMIN PHILLIPS Thats kind of true. It's just that the mainstream and blockbuster market is tainted. Few good movies are actually also "big movies". Dune was a nice exception imho.
EDIT: Or Mad Max: Fury Road - possibly one of the best ACTION (!) movies. I said action movies. Not movies.
There is something so incredibly endearing about John Howe and Alan Lee. It feels like they became the special ingredient to the heart of these movies. Peter really nailed it by going out of his way to find them and get them on board.
I wish they would print those story boards. I would buy it in a heartbeat!!
I tried searching for it! Found nothing :(
ME TOO
I could listen to Lee & Howe talk about LOTR for hours. These two strike me as incredibly interesting guys to chat with
It's so satisfying watching this and knowing that they had no clue how much of an impact they would make, and that all this yardwork paid off into the greatest and most respected films ever made
Man i wish adaptations were still created and treated with this much love and passion
The trilogy was made by adults who love the source material. Today's day and age, it's hyperactive politicized children writing scripts.
Never seen this doc before and I am stunned. Truly. Oh my.
Welcome to the gang, kid
LOL the pre-production scenes in Bilbo's house are EXACTLY like amateur UA-cam skits from the late 00's
I was thinking the exact same thing. Or crappy high school AV club movie lmao it’s honestly the funniest shit ever. The goofy faces and acting
I’m really glad they didn’t go with Charles Bronson’s head as Gandalf.
He does look more intimidating this way though xd
"Hey Bilbo, how about that ring?"
"No dice."
"This ain't over."
Anyone else want to see the whole trilogy with Jackson and the crew jumping into different roles? 😂
The face the guy who played sam made lol.
You can def tell they had fun the entire time.
It’s 2022 and I’m Still amazed by what they were able to bring to screen for the masses
These appendices are a better watch than the movies, what an epic adventure it must have been making these movies
Imagine you could have been there, done it with them.
Nothing would have topped that experience. I still regret not being a part of it XD. I did so first when I was like 11 and watched these the first time, lol. The companionship and shit is so fuckin nice and insane :>
The bar has been set so high, will we ever see another high fantasy film(s) of this quality?
People try. And fail
Doubt there will ever be anything quite as good on film. The high water mark of western culture.
No, I am sorry, but no. We were lucky enough to be there when LOTR was made. There won't be ever anything even closeto it ever again.
I don't think anything will ever match it. There are so many reasons why. It would almost be impossible today.
Probably some day, there are lots of great stories to tell in that genre
Just Wow! All of it! Everything and everyone involved in the film making process... these incredible books that inspired and touched so many people... All of it is just Wow!!!
The Appendixes are great. You know everyone involved truly cared about what they were doing.
The number of things that had to go _just right,_ and could have gone so wrong... the number of people who had to just happen to contribute some small part that added _just the right touch_ -- it's mind-boggling. Any of that could have gone wrong. All it would have taken is the studio exec to say no, or want only one or two films, and the LotR film(s) would not have become even a *shadow* of what they actually became -- *the greatest films ever made.*
Perfectly said!
Let alone their sequels be better than the first film! The ending of Return of the King has to be the most perfect ending in movie history. We didn’t need anything more or anything less and was most satisfying and just imagine if everything else was perfect but the ending left a hole in you. We wouldn’t have remembered the rest of the brilliant films as we do now. Still In Awe. Dune is my only hope to get that same feeling I did with LOTR.
Fun Fact: The decrepit looking orc general in Return of the King that steps away at the last second to avoid a huge rock from a catapult squashing him, was based on Harvey Weinstein.
Peter Jackson pitched the trilogy to Miramax first and Weinstein told Jackson to make it into one film. They didn’t part on good terms so Peter made a fat ugly orc in the image of Weinstein once New Line believed in Peter and let him make 3 films.
There’s a lot of awesome trivia for the original trilogy.
Alan Lee killing the ASMR game before it even existed
Ikr? I was totally gonna say this
@@archangeljmj6008 asmr is creepy
Him and liv tyler
Dude, he’s how I discovered it existed.
Lol! So I'm not the only one who felt that way! 🤣 Both Alan Lee and John Howe btw. They are the incredible asmr duo lol! Plus they're also so incredibly talented! I wish I could draw like that 😍
"Low Poly Gandalf doesn't exist, he can't hurt you"
Low Poly Gandalf: 9:09
Am I just easily impressed or was Jackson doing a pretty decent job at acting? I'm not the best judge of quality on the subject, it could've been bad and I probably wouldn't know.
Jackson had small roles in his early films, and he was very good and very funny in them. Watch Bad Taste and Braindead
He also killed the role as a drunkard outside the prancing pony
@@drako4245 and he threw a rock in helms deep I think
@@pauls9977 He cameos in all of the films
@@pauls9977 Not a rock but a spear, and he's pretty convincing, doing a little warcry and everything
The attention to detail here is mindboggeling. Thank you for uploading this!
Man I just have to say that these appendices are extremely enjoyable and above all eye-opening for how I look at these films. They go so much into depth about how they were made and it's amazing
the amount of pre-production time is astonishing... 2, 3, maybe 4 years total before cameras started rolling? what an insane treat to have that.
I bought the box set back in the day and I LOVED IT. These Appendices were just great so interesting. I'm 70 now and I wanted to move to NZ and work for WETA!! LOL!
Jackson went and sold Weta to a larger company, Unity, so that it’s tech will be “democratized” and people all over can use it to contribute to the stupid, in my opinion, metaverse.
You can see Hobbiton in NZ. It's def worth a trip. It's essentially like Disneyland without the rides.
Those consept artists, holy crap. That is some insane talent. Mindblowing creativity.
John Howe and Alan Lee are like 90% of what we perceive as "middle earth" imho. The whole feel is based upon their drawings. Even shots 1:1 etc.
Hollywood will never fund a movie like this again.
It really does feel like the last of its kind.
@@senoritaaurora5123 yeah...nowadays bad CGI is preferred over talent
It really is a pity.... you look at blockbusters like Star Wars and they're just soulless.
Hbo is a gem
@@senoritaaurora5123 Avatar in the making came "almost" close to what Jackson and his Crew did in LotR. The making of Avatar is something everyone who likes this kind of stuff should watch.
This is absolutely phenomenal...documenting how much work went into making the films...I'm blown away how they did it all!! 😁😁
It’s great how they just sat down and sketched the whole location the way it’s going to look like. THAT‘S a creative process! The whole movie, from start to finish.
We owe these people so much. It looks like everyone involved put their heart and soul into every miniscule detail, truly making the movie with love and not just to get the job done. It blows my mind... And they gave us the greatest trilogy there will ever be. I can't watch them without crying, they mean so much to me
12:34 I would like to see all three films like this.
The effort and dedication everyone put in making the movies is unbelievable.
Thank you for making these masterpieces of inspiration and admiration to all of us.
Them acting out those scenes is gold.
The passion, commitment and skill that went into these movies is truly extraordinary. More than deserves its place in cinematic history. These appendices are testament to that and are an absolute joy to watch, even decades later.
That floating Gandalf-with-a-mustache head is going to give me nightmares.
If you hear a light scratching on your closet door and the sounds of distant mournful wailing at midnight, whatever you do, remain hidden under your covers. You will feel the presence of the floating head, quietly hovering over your bed. Keep still and quiet your breathing, the head will wait patiently for you make a mistake. If you can stop yourself from shitting the bed until sunrise, the head will depart and leave you unharmed.
until next time….
Now I know why Tom Bombadil wasn’t in these movies... He was to busy directing them.
Much praise to the people making these making ofs. They are hands down the best, most-extensive, totally encompassing making ofs of all time. They just seem so endless and even longer than the films themselves. There’s a clip for every sentence a person says.
Seeing the concept art brings me back to the days of making fan concepts for other literary works. It's quite inspiring.
It's awe inspiring the amount of detail they put into this
It’s amazing how much actors add to movies. After watching them deliver the same lines it’s completely different to what we got
The detail and planning is incredible. Creating middle earth. Not just making films.
Man they should release that mini film with the crew, the mustached Gandalf read completely straight is hilarious
Jesus, the pre vis , play, storyboard, animatic, cartoon. No wonder the films were great
He shot it like 5 times before he actually filmed it
No wonder the Hobbit stunk
peter admits he had to wing it when doing the hobbit. he's a hero for stepping in at the last minute and agreeing to direct the films. he saved a lot of kiwi jobs.
@@Wmei64 yes. He winged it because of all the things you mentioned. We are saying the same thing
@@BenjamUniverse
I didn’t say anything😂
@@Wmei64 so you deleted the comment then. Its still in my notifications
@@BenjamUniverse do it right or don't do it. I also remember a lot of kiwis being pissed by his dismissive attitude to their labor concerns. This was not some beautiful generous act
The whole crew of LOTR is like a fantasy world of its own, I'm sure for many of them today it feels like a dream to them, what they did on LOTR has never been captured since even by them on the Hobbit.
I like how deep the efforts were built and gathered. Best everythings!
I wonder who inspired peter jackson when-why he was a young ranger?
Man, George Lucas' influence on film is really unparalleled. I had no idea he had a subtle hand in these films but it doesn't surprise me.
Let's all take a moment of silence for the poor bastards who were offered a job on this project and said no.
Is there documented cases of people saying no to working on this film?
@@Berserkaroid Sean Connery
@@Berserkaroid Miramax
Nicholas cage, Russell Crowe, Kate Winslet Daniel day Lewis, Umar thurman, Ethan Hawke, Lucy lawless. Sean Connery is the funniest though, he was offered 15% of the box office and 30 million upfront. 15% of 3 billion. He let 480million dollars slip through his hands and thank god for that because Ian mckellen was made for the role of Gandalf.
Enjoyable narrative. Love this.
Imagine your wedding ring being what they based the one-ring off of for the film. 56:30
My fathers wedding ring looks exactly like the one ring (tho my parents married in 1989) so when I was a kid I used to take his ring from the nightstand and pretend I was Frodo after the seeing the movies. Then my mom would yell at me saying I might lose it lmfaooo
Its so beautiful to see the behind scenes of this masterpiece 😍
The production of LOtR is like the moonlanding. So Many years left and it seems harder than ever to achieve either of these.
Peter Jackson is actually an excellent actor 😝
Thank you for sharing this
Only thing that disappoints me about LOR is when you see the deleted landscape scenes.
They don't make movies like this anymore. So much work went into this masterpiece trilogy, its mind blowing.
Richard Taylor was only in his early thirties when he started working on these films. What a legend.
12:17 one of the greatest cuts in cinema history
19:00-19:41
This is why the lord of the rings were such great films under Jackson. One of the greatest film directors of all time
yet has directed nothing apart from LOTR and hobbit (which was garbage_) and subsuquently milked it to death
Eternally in love with this project 🙌🙌🙌Thanks to all who made it real ❤️❤️❤️
if and/or when this upload gets subtitles, the human race will enter a new age of enlightenment and prosperity
Why would you need subtitles? It's clear enough.
@@Langley_Ackerman19 reading is good for you
We have just entered a new age of enlightenment and prosperity
Masterclass in the proceas of creativity
Thank you for uploading both part 1 and 2 ☺️
I read the Hobbit and I loved it. I watched the Hobbit before The Lord of the Rings so I was blown away with the Hobbit and I loved that too. The attention to detail like the butterflies above Mirkwood was mindboggling for me, especially because I had seen How to train your Dragon and how they changed the plot, added new characters, removed the villain and Quest for the King's Lost Things etc. I thought because of this, no book could have ever been made accurately enough and noone would care enough to pay attention to detail.
Then I read the Lord of the Rings. Then I watched it. And I loved that too.
Many people didn't like the Hobbit because they had already seen LOTR and had high expectations. Also, the Hobbit isn't as deep eg addictive power of the ring, friendship, fleshed out characters etc. That's just how the book is. It's simply about how a hobbit unexpectedly went on an adventure and found a ring and helped kill a dragon. That's it. No hectic darkness, no romance, no corruption, no terrible betrayal, there's 13 dwarves with flat character developments, sure there's tension, but not like in lotr. It's a prequel anyways, so it couldn't have met the same standards as lotr. Tolkien wrote it 15 years or so before the Hobbit so he was less experienced if I can say that I mean he was a professor in English literature. Stop killing the Hobbit. You couldn't have done better. LOTR had deep themes, detailed characters, and an intense, heavy plot emphasising characteristics, personalities and themes.
Two seperate stories linked together by three characters, Bilbo, Gollum and Gandalf.
Don't forget Gloin.
@@jacobadam6804 ah yes
@@IceOfPhoenix88 He plays a pretty small role in LOTR but he is in it.
When I first watched the hobbit movies, I loved them (mostly 1 and 2. 3 is really "meh", most of it feel quite strech out). I hadn't read the book, and so yes I was expecting some kind of lotr 2. But still, i found them really nice!
Then I read the book. I think the movies are "too serious/dark" in comparison.
And then I rewatched the movies, and I can't say they are a good adaptations. Sure all the events happen, but the third movie is unnecessary. They also add to much information about Sauron. I find Thorin quite annoying also in the first movie, while in the book he seems quite well behaving.
Also Legolas as nothing to do here. I don't mind Tauriel but I don't really like the romance, it's kinda strange and out of nowhere. I think the book would have been adapted better if the movies were created before the lotr movies. The studio wouldn't have try to make it "lotr2". It would have been less serious, with no useless romance, nor to much exposition about Sauron (that goes nowhere in those movies anyway if you don't look at the lotr movies after).
And I don't think I'm someone who want no "liberties in adaptations". If stuff are changed, or added and it work why not! For exemple, I like the idea of having one of the dwarf sick (with kili and the arrow), because then you see that some of the dwarfs prefers helping him that to continue on the aventure. It's kinda sweet, it make them more interesting I feel. I still have fun watching these movies, I just wanted to point out "wanting lotr2" isn't the only reason to find those movies "meh" ^^
The people doing the Amazon middle earth better have watched and learned from all these production videos
Lol.
Sadly no, it's woke af. Definite dumpster fire I tell you.
Hehehehe. Hehehehehehehehe. HAHHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Imagine being part of creating middle earth. What a job.
49:04 oh my god this guy looks exactly like Thoden of Rohan hahah
I wish they would publish the story board, make a big book out of it. Id pay good money for it.
I get chills every time i see The Great Halls of Moria
Loved it from INDIA👍👌🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
namaste
Ted Nasmith was also originally supposed to work on the films, which would have brought the "Holy Trinity" of Tolkien artists together as one unit.
Nasmith unfortunately declined the offer due to personal issues at the time. Even then, many scenes in the trilogy had definite influence from Nasmith, particularly the Mount Doom sequence in ROTK.
Jackson bought the rights to a particular painting done by Nasmith, that being 'The Plains of Gorgoroth,' and used it as reference in a scene where the camera pans across Gorgoroth with Frodo and Sam appearing as just tiny figures in the background.
6:09 the final days of the CRT, duct tape on the screen to prepare for digital wide screen monitors, what a time
Thank you, Peter Jackson, for everything that you gave us.
Great men at work
These appendices made me realize, Peter Jackson is a brilliant director. What a shame the Halo movie never went through. 😕
Not gonna lie, I would pay top dollar to watch the entire trilogy acted out by the film production crew in the mock sets, in their normal clothes.
I’ve watched this several times now and my favorite part by far is this guy’s stupid face 17:30.
My insomnia riddled brain finds this hilarious.
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I wanna say that Lord of the Rings is a classic of the new millennium.
I highly doubt there will be documentaries on how rings of power was made. That show doesn't have 1/10 the work and love these people put into the original lotr trilogy
Humans have this unique ability to create and want to create.
And then destroy
@@Sm-iw2vh XD
Except for leftists...they see an object of beauty and only want to destroy it and replace it with false idols and evil doctrines. The end of the West is nigh.
Greatest movies of all time.
I was such a long term fan of the books,,that i waited 3years to watch the trilogy together ,as i couldn't imagine waiting a year between each one🤣🤣
@Anon Anon don't really do fan culture , live off grid in the mountains with my ponies and dogs, ,,also am old and have read the books and silmarilian ,multiple times ,,
I'd kinda waited all my life for the film ,3more years was nothing,🤣also i was afraid they would change the story too much and I'd be disappointed ,,but obviously i was Not disapointed👌♥️🦅
Thank you for your reply , but I'm not sure what fan culture is ,is it kinda on line chats and discussions? Have a lovely
day , love from spanish mountians🐎🌄🐾🐕♥️🌍🦅
@Anon Anon yes i socialise,
🤣🥂🎶,when the film was being made i was living in cambridge ,singing with 2 bands ,writing songs etc ;
Looking after my ponies ,and converting my truck to to live in ,in spain.so bit busy i guess,,,off grid now ,but have better tech than ever before,🤣🎶🪶🐎🐕🦅🔥🌄♥️
I agree, the wait sucked
These really put into perspective the difference between LOTR and Hobbit. They had over 3 years of pre-production time to get everything ready for LOTR. They didn’t even have a full year for Hobbit. All of the story boarding, pre-viz work, model building, on location set building they did for Rings; Peter Jackson wasn’t able to do any of that for Hobbit. Really sucks.
I personally wish the hobbit was produced with the same kind of resource and manpower, I know they say that could never be done again, but to me if it can't be done right, don't do it at all.
They did such a phenomenal job. Lotr has made 3 billion dollars. masterpiece
Really? Omgg
@@kittycat8170 Budget Total (3 films):
$281 million
Box office Total (3 films):
$2.981 billion
And more...
As of 2017, The Lord of the Rings films had a home media revenue of more than $2.4 billion.
Endgame has made more than 2.5 billion dollars. Does that make it a masterpiece?
take not Disney. thats how you make films. who would have thought twenty years ago disney would be responsible for films even worse then the prequels and destroying an IP that had been strong for 40 years before their hack frauds started making 'movies'.
Unless you are the Tolkien family. With Hollywood's evil accounting methods, it shows that the franchise lost money. This is done just to screw copyright holders out of royalties and is, unfortunately, all too common in hypocritical Hollywood, who claims to value the "small guy" and "hate corporations."
This reminds me of when Obi Wan fought Darth Vader… it’s exactly the same energy.
wow i feel special being one of the only 423 (!) people who "liked" this video and of the 34 (!) that commented 😂
where's all the fans
cool kids watched these on the DvDs
Oh Yeah release that mock up cut 🙏🙌
These documentaries further give me no hope for the new Ring Of Power series. This kind of love gets poured into very few film adaptations.
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18:58 This is exactly what the Hobbit movies lacked...
I like Lord of the rings please upload the 3rd season in summit urdo
lol the sign in the background at 5:05
The Previs and Peter’s acting is still better than Amazon primes series
There is only a trailer. You are as toxic as a ringwraith to judge something that isn't even out yet.
The only agenda is the evil in you your heart.
@@EricHamm the evil of Amazon and the destruction of Tolkien’s legacy by inserting identity politics.
@EricHamm bot ... the same comment on any post that mentions amazon
@@vikingodin1986 😂 think again….
Please upload part 3!!!
ill never get rid of my extended edition dvds. perfect edition. no stupid colour filters like newer releases
@@zeppelinboys how is this relevant?
Ma dude really went out to get dnd minis and cardboard boxes just to get the storyboard better
Peter Jackson secretly just ís a Hobbit! I mean put some feet prosthetics on him and not even make up is needed to turn him into a Hobbit lol 🤣
At 30:07, for any of "my fellow Americans" who are confused, the word "homely" is being used with the same meaning as our word "homey." In the U.S., "homely" usually means "unattractive," but also "plain, simple, unpretentious, lacking refinement."
I don’t think these movies could have been made at a different time. It’s almost like the stars aligned. I don’t believe this would happen now
So they drew all of the scenes before doing anything else?
That's how movies work. Everyone pre-vis' before they even bust out a camera.
Amazing if they created a LOTR world. Like universal did with Harry Potter. If you could walk all these sets. I’ve been to hobbiton in NZ and it’s beautiful but would love to walk some of the sets. Or see the bigatures up close
8:59 hahahah we now have lotro RuneScape