tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post1738010013444964813..comments2024-03-28T09:44:47.093+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: "Thorin sits down and starts to sing about gold..."JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-61015626413185039832019-08-18T08:02:07.806+01:002019-08-18T08:02:07.806+01:00"I'm not so sure, Peter Jackson already d...<i>"I'm not so sure, Peter Jackson already did a lot of work to wreck the stupendous legacy..."</i><br /><br />You're not a fan? I enjoyed them!<br /><br /><i>"Bit of a non-story this, obviously done for marketing purposes."</i><br /><br />They are getting more and more cunning, these marketing chappies. <br /><br />Wouldn't work if we didn't have 24/7/365 news cycles and lazy churnalism, though...<br /><br /><i>"Ha! I still can't get out of the Goblin caves after all these years..."</i><br /><br />It was before the Internet, and cheating by watching YouTube! <br /><br /><i>"... there's a whole heap more stuff in the pre LOTR, and it would make great TV,..."</i><br /><br />And will long after Harry Potter is forgotten.<br /><br /><i>"Thanks for bringing back a long buried memory!!"</i><br /><br />That's what I'm here for... ;)JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-79458999236669328272019-08-14T20:43:04.429+01:002019-08-14T20:43:04.429+01:00Oh god, that line is from that game on the Acorn B...Oh god, that line is from that game on the Acorn BBC thing that always sees you fried by a dragon while clinging to the underside of a barrel floating down a river. Thanks for bringing back a long buried memory!!!Bloke in Germanynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-38805218600866058142019-08-14T15:22:52.017+01:002019-08-14T15:22:52.017+01:00As a Tolkien fanatic - I wrote to the great man in...As a Tolkien fanatic - I wrote to the great man in 1965 when I was 10 (and he replied!) - there's a whole heap more stuff in the pre LOTR, and it would make great TV, so I'm not fussed about the LOTR stuff being out of scope.tolkeinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08322788161398430426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-89140046666726906742019-08-14T15:16:37.179+01:002019-08-14T15:16:37.179+01:00Ha! I still can't get out of the Goblin caves ...Ha! I still can't get out of the Goblin caves after all these years...<br /><br />You had permission to adapt the, frankly unreadable, history of Middle Earth and now you are panicking...<br /><br />DiddumsRyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04815972799386980594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-60771669887576260922019-08-14T11:07:13.094+01:002019-08-14T11:07:13.094+01:00Bit of a non-story this, obviously done for market...Bit of a non-story this, obviously done for marketing purposes. The whole Second Age thing is a dirty great goldmine for a multi-series magnum opus, what with the rise of Numenor, Sauron forging the Rings and corrupting everybody, and a dirty great battle at the end, and Tolkien didn't really write it in a whole lot of detail.<br /><br />The giveaway being that Shippey said that they can not do anything that changes Tolkien's canon, and fans do like a good canonical argument.Anomalous Cowshedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06128613687139232168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-48416960659649859142019-08-14T10:53:06.985+01:002019-08-14T10:53:06.985+01:00I'm not so sure, Peter Jackson already did a l...I'm not so sure, Peter Jackson already did a lot of work to wreck the stupendous legacy of his LOTR films by making those three bloated and crappy Hobbit moviesJohn Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07437765041360086205noreply@blogger.com