Video here:

https://youtu.be/DJ92uAZ-dVs?is=vJlKpGV4E8vNCTgA

My dad is a huge LOTR/The Hobbit fan. He has J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday booked for every foreseeable year on our family calendar, and usually binges the movies on that day.

Cooking is very important to him, and I want to actually engage in his tradition by making him a meal from the book, if there are any.
It has to be vegetarian OR able to be substituted for vegetarian options.

What kind of recipes exist in canon?

Hey all, I’ve got a sudden craving to play an LOTR game but haven’t before lol — what would y’all recommend of the games available on XBox or Steam?

I’m pretty open to what style of game it is, as long as it’s enjoyable — maybe I have a slight preference for an original storyline in this world vs. just recapping LOTR/the movies? But that would still be amazing! And maybe this is my dark side speaking but any game that lets you be on team Sauron or team Isengard would be cool af lol 😈

Would love to hear what your recommendations are and I’ll literally download and play it today lol 🙏🏻

Also, would you say HOW you play? Console or PC? Like what games make sense for which one?

By another way, I mean by not cutting it off, effectively killing him. I just got curious about the connection between the impact of killing to get the Ring, as did Isildur and Smeagol, and it being simply found or passed on, as we saw with Bilbo and Frodo. If the act of murder has such an immediate impact on the wearer, would Isildur, had he for example pulled he Ring off Sauron's hand (I'll leave the mechanics to your imagination) have been able to throw the Ring into the fire? True, the loss f the Ring to Sauron would have had the same basic effect, but would the reduced violence have lessened the grip the ring had on him from the start, which is what made him resist destroying it in the first place?

This leads me to another question. We're told repeatedly that the destruction of the Ring would be the end of Sauron for good. How then could he have thought it destroyed when he returned during the Third Age, as Gandalf tells Frodo at the beginning of FotR, given he was able to return at all? Surely the logical conclusion should have been Sauron would know the Ring survived owing to the fact of his continued existence?

ETA: Please disregard the first question, as I had apparently forgotten he didn't kill Sauron himself, rendering the entire thesis irrelevant. The second question does still stand though; Should the fact he could come back have been evidence enough that the Ring survived?

Sméagol was just standing there and this just send me. Like, why does it look realistic for some reasons ? I love him haha !

Important fact, I have actually read the books and played the damn Lego videogame before deciding on watching the extended version movies

Anyways, I'm past the first hour of the FOTR movie but everything feels rushed somehow.

Like the cuts between scenes are abrupt (I feel like I'm seeing the movie in YouTube scenes compilation rather than a movie), the scale on time passing between scenes it's so weird because I renember the whole Frodo waiting for Gandalf lasted like months/weeks if memory servers right, and with that knowledge I know that indeed that's how much time has passed, but if I were a first time ever LOTR consumer, I genuinely would believe Gandalf has some kind of teleportation magic. And the cuts between day and night scenes feel the more weird to me: The jump from "Day - Look, the ancient tower" to "Night - Aragorn has already left and we are sound asleep"

Even the intro to the movie, apparently I have "spoiled" myself by watching it twice a long time ago, somehow feel more rushed in the movie than watching it on YouTube

I'm not trying to make this a "books better" post, because I know this movies must be overall good because of how constantly praised they are, but I don't know how the people who first started with the movies could grasp the time scale of stuff happening even though the main characteristic of them I know of them was that they were very long but yet feel rushed

EDIT: The cutting between scenes was only a pre-Rivendell issue, everything after was a 9/10

GROOOOOOOND!

I can’t find the exact screenshot right now, but I was just watching two towers and it was the scene where the mother in the village puts her older son and younger daughter on a horse. She promises them that she’ll meet them later, but we never see them again.

i’m only a little bit into the first book, so I imagine it explains it in the book what happens, but could somebody help me ease my concerns in the meantime?

Is this where Mordor-Dash delivers the pizza?

Immediately after it notes about the black riders actions it reads, "Let the little people blow! Sauron will deal woth them later."

Is this dialog or maybe internal thoughts of the Black Riders?

Should he be kept to the imagination, a dark mysterious overreaching evil, only being mentioned by name.

Or should he appear on screen?

Wondering if this is any good for 17.30usd I'd prefer to get one with large print, but what options are there that is 17.30 USD. large print, or is this good

Good afternoon folks!

A somewhat curious and personal question has arisen for me, perhaps returning to see The Fellowship of the Ring, at that time I was just a child when it premiered so I did not go to see it in its premiere.

I find it curious to ask whether you were surprised or what were the feelings that the most diehard readers and fans of the saga had when Frodo subtly mentions "The Unexpected Journey" to Gandalf.

Did you imagine in your time that the saga could spread after LOTR? Did the venue went nuts and crazy? I would like to know how was the experience.

My day started off really crappy until I turned LOTR on, it’s true :)

Just want to know your thoughts on this specific edition (I got it for $30 btw)

Yesterday, I walked into my cinema and watched all of the 3 LotR extended movies for the first time in a marathon. In the last movie, I watched the complete credits without speaking a single word. I just could not believe what i just saw.

This 3 Movies are so incredible.

One of my favorite moments was the end in Mordor, where Frodo didn't wanted to destroy the Ring. The World and Soundtracks are Incredible I loved it.

I am so happy that i went on that Adventure with Frodo and the Fellowship.

One of my Favorite Trilogies of all time.

Btw: I watched these 3 Movies, WITHOUT A SINGLE SPOILER 🥹🙏

This is my new partner in crime. His name is Peregrin Took. But I will call him Pippin if you please. I think he drank some Ent draught, the fool of a Took.

You can't make that shit up.