On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the worst...

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the worst, how good of an adaptation of the source material was this trilogy of movies?

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it improves in more areas than it trash's. Very rare for an adaption so 9/10

Probably a 5 or 6, but in comparison to other movie adaptions its a solid 9.

>improving on the books
where

You don't need to read it so it's not fucking archaic.

this must be bait

Well, if you're rating how accurate it is to the source material, it probably hovers around a 6.

Overall, though, it's a strong 9, arguably a 10 on some days.

>not including the Scouring of the Shire
it's shit

Strictly rating on it's accuracy it's meh in most areas. However, all things considered they did an amazing job turning the books into only 3 movies. They cut out the unnecessary stuff, and changed things accordingly, without making it make no sense.

5/10 for accuracy, 8-9/10 all things considered

6/10

>abandoning Glorfindel of Gondolin for muh powerful female elf
>fucking ghost army instead of Aragorn rallying forces from South Gondor to help Minas Tirith
>making Minas Tirith look like a fantasy city, instead of a functioning city because who needs farms and villages to feed a large city population
>getting surrounded like a lvl 1 noob general at Black Gates and going Leeeroy Jeeeeeeeenkins

7/10

For what it had to deal with and the dedication the cast and crew put into making it, 9.99/10

5/10

fellowship the only good one and i used to be a diehard fan, but the techniques and pacing and such drags way too much

Best adaptation of a book ever made, best trilogy ever made and best fantasy movie ever made.

LOTR is GOAT, and if you disagree you are a faggot.

Nice meme

kys Lotrfag

FOTR 10/10
TTT 6.5/10
ROTK 3.5/10

The books kind of suck, I mean the world is interesting-ish and there's some nice adventure stuff, mostly in Fellowship but Tolkien's writing style is really meandering and boring. The movies are much better but even then they aren't that good either, the heroes are invincible killing machines so there are no stakes whatsoever even in massive battles and the whole thing feels like an exercise in nothingness

>not including the farms and villages around Minas Tirith
this is the biggest nitpick of anything that I've heard of all year

Should have some Bombadillo in the Extended Cuts. At the very least have him sing while they walk through a forest at one point.

>implying that would have worked with the movie itself

It wasn't needed

>TTT 6.5/10
>ROTK 3.5/10

This, fellowship is the only good one

see
and stop overrating dull vanilla filmmaking

> tfw it's not an barrow -wights charm and undress the hoobits, with the sole purpose of turning them into unconcious sex slave episode.
> we could've had Peregrien Fook, Merry Brandyfuck,Sam Gagger and Frodo Stuffings.

kys

Hackson

Step you game up Based serkis and viggo isnt enough

8/10

just because it is a fantasy world and a fantasy city doesn't mean you have to throw basic shit like city infra out of the window

stuff like
>water supply
>incoming roads
>food supply
>bulging outskirts because not everyone can afford manor within the walls

pretty sure that Pelennor fields was quite different compared to the movie, but it has been like 15 years since I read the books

yeah, I might be autistic or something, but we each have our triggering reasons

Honestly I thought Viggo's performance was kind of shitty. I mean he looks and acts the part, but his voice is SO stupid. Sometimes he's trying to fake an accent and it just sounds dumb and other times he doesn't and it still sounds dumb. They should have dubbed him or something cause some of his lines sounded so stupid I cracked up

Also Liv Tyler fucking sucks and Arwen is terrible, that blonde bitch was much better and Aragorn should have shacked up with her, she was qt and tough as fuck

doesn't Eowyn get with Faramir in the end?

liv tyler is terrible

What about Sam, he is the best part of the series.

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>that blonde bitch was much better and Aragorn should have shacked up with her,
She was married with Celeborn, who's elfish name was Teleporno. I shit you not.

>arwen
It was shit.

yeah but faramir ends up being a non character, he was based at first but then he's a huge bitch and they fall in love for no reason like he's her second choice cause he can't even compare to aragorn and she's just desperate for some dicc

movie Sam does shine out a lot more then book Sam

>She was married with Celeborn
I think he means eowyn

Even if you dont enjoy the movie you cant deny they have one of the best soundtracks in cinema.

Sorry man , I tought you was refering to Galadriel.

I meant the human blonde, the king's niece. though blanchette is a literal goddess in these films. i almost got to work with her as an extra in carol, sadly couldn't do it. i want her to bust my knuckles with a ballpeen hammer and tear off the remains of my fingers and throw them into the fire, then force me to try and bring her to orgasm with only my stubs

The city was under seige, they had to pull all their shit inside the city walls to defend against Sauron's armies.

post yfw this scene

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i like sam too i just have trouble with frodo

We literally could not ask for a bettr Aragorn. Sometimes i see footage of Viggo without the Aragorn look and forget that he played the part. He completely immersed himself in the role.

>his voice

Bitch, his speech at the black gates gives me the chills

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Viggo is literally god tier.

Sorry man, I just think he sounds really silly. Trust me, he looks great as a ragged fantasy wilderness wandering loner but damn he sounds so forced

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This desu senpai

that brief shot of Merry and Pippin being the first ones to charge after Aragorn, even before Gandalf and the other members of the Fellowship, was a literally perfect depiction of Hobbit's inherent heroism

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fuck you

Why didn't the eagles just fly the ring to Mordor?

and when Gandalf first rides to MT in FotR?
they really succeeded in having a magical looking city, but there is not one goddamn farm in sight
who cares about food supplies when you are the last city of men?

>as an adaptation

Let's see:

>no Tom Bombadil
>no barrow downs
>Frodo doesn't stab a Nazgul in the foot
>ents have to be pressured into war instead of making their own decision
>no orcs being swallowed by a forest at Helm's Deep
>no Saruman waging war on The Shire when they get back

as movies they're 10/10, as adaptations they're 6/10

I like how Frodo is portrayed it shows how over the films the ring twists him making him spiteful and paranoid, Golem is there as a reminder of what Frodo will become if he does not accomplish his task, and without the aid of Sam that is where he would have ended up.

Frodo carries the ring but the real heroes are the ones that never give up on him, and are willing give their life to try and save what little they have left.

9 since jackson dropped the tom bombadil scene. The latter films were far worse though.

>Tom Bombadil
>Scouring of the Shire
>worth including

>no orcs being swallowed by the forest at Helm's Deep
was in the extended editions
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>no orcs being swallowed by a forest at Helm's Deep

That does happen

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>no orcs being swallowed by a forest at Helm's Deep
Kys

It got the gist of it, but some parts about them bother me.

Too much focus on the action.
Not enough stuff from the beginning of the first book is present (The early hobbit journey to Rivendale is comfy as fuck.)
Not enough that shows how the old world is dying.
PJ does a bad job at establishing that not everyone gives a fuck about Middle Earth or Sauron.(Eagles etc)
Good characters actually show good qualities, bad ones show evil ones.
CGI Gollum was a fucking mistake.

Then again it's been years since I saw them and I am nitpicking, it had every reason to be an absolute trainwreck.

>CGI Gollum was a fucking mistake.
delete this

looks good on screen, is real fucking retarded in practice

In the first scene where he is sneaking up on Frodo and Sam sleeping, his hands literally go inside the rock for a second due to poor computer animation

Have you watched the extended cuts?

Gollum still holds up today which is a surprise, i finished watching the two towers last night.

Its fucking 4 hours, and the return of the king is 4 and half hours. Its really not that action focused, i think the cinematic releases were cut down significantly for those with short attention spans.

If it's not in the theatrical release, it's not actually part of the movie.

narrative and thematic coherence > realism

is this bait?

hes technically right

Maybe they got supply drops from the eagles?

>that pic
Now I want to re-listen the Silmarilion

kys

>listening to the whole silmarillion
how long would this even take?

It's 15 hours worth of audio files, around 800mb

>want to watch the movies since it's pretty much the only big pop culture thing I missed that started in my lifetime
>friend lets me borrow his books
>read them
>no longer want to watch the movies
>know they just can't compete

such is life

Boromir was the best fellowship member and he didn't deserve to die

>gloryhound alpha minus that got easily corrupted
>best

Merry and pippin outclassed him easily.

>bumbling morons who did only ever contributed entirely by accident
>"best"

t. lotrfag

He sought only for himself since the second he joined the fellowship, he only realized his wrong doing at the moment of his death.

He was a great character but if frodo didnt run away he would have killed him and took the ring.

Cut 30 minutes from each run time for the credits though

>He sought only for himself
*for the protection of Minas Tirith

I never implied merry or pippin were the best, that would be sam, the true hero of the story.

But boromir is easily the worst.

No for the gratification of his father, he wanted the renown that bringing the ring home would give him.

>Sam is the true hero of LotR
why do people always say this?

Because he is, without him the ring would never have been destroyed.

He is the only reason Frodo was able to make it to Mordor, and even once they made it Frodo failed and it was because of Gollums greed it was even detroyed.

Would agree.

>movie only fags

you are the worst breed

what is the best scene in the whole trilogy?

my vote goes to
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>he doesnt separate inherently different mediums with different necessities
>he doesnt discuss the films only on the film board
get out

>he doesn't know anything about sam because he only watched the movies
>thinks he should be allowed to talk about the series at all

fuck off

>hes replying to two different people
>he is a bookfag

the books are boring as fuck and have no depth and just feel like long really descriptive myth stories. the movies are far superior.

It was a pretty bad adaptation, but that's the price of having such a great movie. The director's cut is more faithful to the books, but the theatrical cut is the superior trilogy.

This trilogy shows us that sometimes it's more important to make a cinematic masterpiece than blindly following the source material.

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>Adaption: 1/10
>Effort: 10/10

What else can you hope for? Tolkien considered his work unfilmable, and I'm inclined to agree. Regardless, the films still deserve to rank among the classics, and are damn good to watch. The Appendices are even better.

Good modern films

Not an actual adaption of the book as that would be too long and go against modern sensibilities. Jackson and Walsh understood the modern audience and knew they had to make anachronistics, the "no parent (should really say father) should bury their child" (son would be way more appropriate)

LotRs as a book is more indebted to old Sagas and thus just doesn't translate to a populous format as film

9/10

would've been a 10 if Glorfindel had saved Frodo in FOTR instead of Arwen.

>muh Glorfindel

Never gets old

Can we all agree that the casting for these movies was perfect?

>it's a "lord of the rings thread" episode
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So what exactly was the watcher in the dark? Was it a creation of morgoth, or something older?
And is there more scary shit like that in middle earth?

no

Faramir's arch was handled better in movies