A Nerdy Question on LOTR

**Mouzafphaerre** · 01-08-2006, 20:01

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I overread some talk about Fangorn (Treebeard) being inspired by C.S. Lewis; it seems like this Bombadil might be someone close to Tolkien, or inspired by him.

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**The Stranger** · 01-08-2006, 20:12

who knows Earthsea...i saw the movie...all those stories seem to have su,thing in common and it looks very much like Harry potter has huge amounts of things that are virtually the same with Earthsea, LotR and CoNarnia

**Mouzafphaerre** · 01-09-2006, 08:35

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So they made Narnia too into a movie finally huh? I saw the ads on the TV. Though, my only experience with it was a kiddy dramatization on the BBC.
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**Togakure** · 01-09-2006, 23:55

The two Istari known as the "blue wizards" were named Alatar and Pallando. They purportedly went into the East and came not again into the tales of men.

Most of the the information regarding the fourth age is found in the Appendices of the Return of the King.

**Kongamato** · 01-10-2006, 00:52

I wonder if anyone could answer a question I have. I've only seen the movies, so this may not even be a legitimate question. When Isildur took Sauron's fingers off, Sauron apparently went nuclear and took out everyone in a quarter-mile radius. How did Isildur survive that?

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 01-10-2006, 01:13

The "blast" in the movie presumably only knocked people off their feet.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 01-10-2006, 02:13

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Well, the only god of the movies was making me think "WTF?! Why on earth people become fanatics over such nonsense and even take nicknames and all?" Then I decided to make some research

and realized that there might actually be some potential in this Tolkien fellow (being chaps with C.S. Lewis etc.).

Out of curiousity I got the books and

(one for The Hobbit and each of the LotR volumes)

Then I realized how huge a homicide those nonsense films were.

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**Brutus** · 01-10-2006, 23:49

Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre

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Well, the only god of the movies was making me think "WTF?! Why on earth people become fanatics over such nonsense and even take nicknames and all?" Then I decided to make some research

and realized that there might actually be some potential in this Tolkien fellow (being chaps with C.S. Lewis etc.).

Out of curiousity I got the books and

(one for The Hobbit and each of the LotR volumes)

Then I realized how huge a homicide those nonsense films were.

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You didn't like them? I thought they were quite good (started reading the books because I saw FOTR back in 2001) and, although they are not up to the standards of the books (which film from a good book ever is?) I thought they were pretty nice in their own right as well as being a nice illustration to the books themselves (much in the way the Harry Potter films are).