Bilbo's Clan and Role Assignments

[Kev]

Darn, I was just too late to catch Miles.. Hopefully he comes back for his avatar.. I'm slowly getting there with these.. My girlfriend his hasseling me to do a bunch of chores that i've been lazy with...

Don't worry Gimli, he'll be back soon enough. Great work by the way. very noble looking and smoking a pipe like me

[Dizaster]

Darn, I was just too late to catch Miles.. Hopefully he comes back for his avatar.. I'm slowly getting there with these.. My girlfriend his hasseling me to do a bunch of chores that i've been lazy with...

Don't worry Gimli, he'll be back soon enough. Great work by the way. very noble looking and smoking a pipe like me

Yes, the 2 wise men relaxing with their pipes, contemplating their long intersting lives.. There some Gandalf fighting ones, but this one was very dignified and is a little more reflective of Miles nature I think..

[Kev]

Darn, I was just too late to catch Miles.. Hopefully he comes back for his avatar.. I'm slowly getting there with these.. My girlfriend his hasseling me to do a bunch of chores that i've been lazy with...

Don't worry Gimli, he'll be back soon enough. Great work by the way. very noble looking and smoking a pipe like me

Yes, the 2 wise men relaxing with their pipes, contemplating their long intersting lives.. There some Gandalf fighting ones, but this one was very dignified and is a little more reflective of Miles nature I think..

Absolutely I'm sure he'll wear it with pride

[donnydarkoIRL]

Unfortunately the role I have in mind for you Donny is more major. The role of Legolas cannot be an honouray role as he's an indispensable member of the 'party of the nine'.

You'd need to be a member of Clan Baggins to take on what, after Gandalf, would be the most prestigious role handout so far.

Join the Clan Donny! We need a young, good looking, talented warrior for the role of Legolas.

If not you, we only have Clubber, and he's already stained his tights through masturbation

We have a large problem then, I'm a sworn member of the old guard.
My leaving the gurad would be betrayal which woul translate to the Baggins-speak equivalent of Sam Gamgee going to work for Sauron.


And Bilbo, your extremely persuasive, ever think of taking up a position in Public relations?

I started out in the old guard clan but when agent Bilbo offered me the role of Gandalf I just could not refuse. It is obviously the role of a lifetime.
And I wear a dress.

The green tights are what allured me.
I had trouble resisting.

Bilbo is fair to assume that as Book to Film conversions go LOTR was damn good?

[Kev]

We have a large problem then, I'm a sworn member of the old guard.
My leaving the gurad would be betrayal which woul translate to the Baggins-speak equivalent of Sam Gamgee going to work for Sauron.


And Bilbo, your extremely persuasive, ever think of taking up a position in Public relations?

I started out in the old guard clan but when agent Bilbo offered me the role of Gandalf I just could not refuse. It is obviously the role of a lifetime.
And I wear a dress.

The green tights are what allured me.
I had trouble resisting.

Bilbo is fair to assume that as Book to Film conversions go LOTR was damn good?

By and large it was an excellent translation. Peter Jackson did make a few alterations from the book, which as a purist, somewhat irked me, but in truth kind of improved on the book.

For example in the book it was not Arwen who helped Frodo overcome the Black Riders by flooding the Ford but Glorfindel.

At Helms' Deep no alliance of Elves arrived from Lothlorien to support Rohan against the Orcs of Saruman,

And Saruman and Grimer Wormtongue in the book both went to the Shire after being released by the ents where Saruman was killed by Grimer. None of this was shown in the films.

But all in all it was an exellent translation. They kept Tom Bombadil out and the goings on in the Old Forest and the Barrow Downs, which I believe was a good thing.

Bombadil and his wife Goldberry were a frankly, weird couple in the book, singing and skipping along, Bombadil himself, dressed like a large brightly coloured Gnome. I don't think he would have translated well to film at all so Jackson, like Raplh Bashki before him took the sensible approach of leaving him out altogether.

I thought it was actually a good idea to give Arwen a bigger role as well as her romance with Aragorn is hidden away in the book almost to the point of irrelevence. Jackson managed to draw it out and add some depth to, what always should have been a more significant aspect of the story, the tale of an Elven princess giving up her mortality to live and die, the wife of a mortal man.

In truth, I think it is the greatest translation of book to big screen that there has ever been and that Jackson's work is tremendous.

I remember when first hearing the Fellowship of the Ring was in production thinking there was no way in hell that anyone could pull it off, especially this Jackson bloke who I had never even heard of.

But he aced it, a masterpiece and imo should have won 3 Oscars for it.

The Fellowship of the Ring Extended edition especially, is the greatest piece of cinema ever made imo. Perfect from beginning to end, as I'm sure Legion will agree.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Thats what I had thought really.

I feel the inclusion of Bombadil and Goldberry would have destroyed the tone of the film really.

[Dizaster]

The Fellowship of the Ring Extended edition especially, is the greatest piece of cinema ever made imo. Perfect from beginning to end, as I'm sure Legion will agree.

I desperately want to buy a copy of that!!! I had all of the regular editions when they all came out, but I one day saw The Return of the King extended edition and had to buy it... After watching it right through, the extra scenes add much more than just the extra 30 minutes or so of viewing time.. It gives more depth... That was years ago now, and i've been dieing to get the other 2 extended editions.. Just 3 weeks ago I found The Two Towers extended and bought that... Havn't watched it yet though as I reallllllly want to get Fellowship extended and watch them in order....

Even for a real purist as Bilbo said, looking at the entirety of the books, and how well Jackson did to fulfill the huge vision and scope that the books had, it's really hard to imagine it being much better than how they turned out...

Some people complained about how a lot of the tradition was presented as "Old English/Celtic" when there isn't any mention of such in the book..

But I think it was a great way to really give the scenes in the movie a deep tradition through that celtic image...