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Concept: Sam finds out elves can die of sadness, gets very concerned, starts doing his best to make sure Mr Legolas is happy all the time just in case
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“ With Manwë dwells Varda, Lady of the Stars, who knows all the regions of Eä. Too great is her beauty to be declared in the words of Men or of Elves; for the light of Ilúvatar lives still in her face. In light is her power and her joy. “
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The fact "the average Middle-Earther kills 500 people per day" is actually a statistical error. Most inhabitants of Middle-Earth kill 0 people per day. Melkor Morgoth Bauglir, who lives in Angband and kills 10,000 people per day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
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if you’re a blacksmith you can just craft yourself a magic ring. nothing wrong with that. they make it seem like it’s a big no no. but you gotta ask yourself why they don’t want you to have a magic ring
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Wow this is so interesting. I never knew this.
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Baby Caranthir counting his pennies (do elves have pennies?)
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Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man shall he fall.
Eowyn as a saint? St George or Joan of Arc maybe? This was not well thought out. process gif below the cut!
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I really enjoyed making the Eowyn as Joan of Arc piece, and I couldn’t get this Boromir as a martyr one out of my head. O captain my captain
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Thingol: If you kill a kinslayer, the number of kinslayers in the world remains the same
Dior, with his mouth full: Kill two
Nimloth: Or three lol *high-fives Dior*
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canceling plans to read is ok. wandering in the woods is ok. the kinslaying at alqualondë is ok. do what you have to do to cope.
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The reason Lord of the Rings’ special effects have held up so well and still look so gorgeous- especially in the backgrounds and environments– is because they weren’t **trying** to be realistic.
LOTR’s special effects are stylized in a very careful, deliberate, and beautiful way.
In a behind-the-scenes video, the films’ visual effects supervisor explained:
We wanted the look of the film to have this storybook look to it. This is one of the things that Peter Jackson would impress upon the post-grader. He would literally sit there with watercolor (paintings) and say: THIS is what I want it to look like.”
Compare Alan Lee’s watercolor painting (its texture, its limited and unreal color palette, and the careful use of bright highlights in specific places that “frame” the characters/create an interesting composition)–
To the very similar look of the final film:
Because the goal wasn’t to create a perfectly realistic version of Moria. It was to create a version of Moria that looked like a watercolor painting.
And this “watercolor painting” effect isn’t just epic fantasy moments either. Even many of the non-fantastical backgrounds in Lord of the Rings don’t look “fully realistic.” They look very high-contrast and painterly, with dramatic unreal shafts of light bursting through the clouds:
And again, this is by design:
“We wanted to nudge it sideways from reality. New Zealand is a lovely country but it’s still New Zealand, still a real country….and I wanted to nudge it slightly to Middle Earth, which is an ancient world….a world of myth, and legend.”
And the watercolor storybook-inspired colors and lighting isn’t just in the environments either. It was also used in very basic dialogue scenes, to make you really feel like the entire movie was taking place in a fantasy world:
Because the stylization in Lord of the Rings is so consistent– but not to so exaggerated that it gets distracting— it creates this beautifully unreal and dreamlike tone that is completely unlike any other movies I’ve ever seen.They really do end up feeling like “watercolor fairy tales” come to life.
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If you read the Akallabêth backwards, it’s about a group of people coming out from under a mountain, raising an island, banishing Sauron from it, and living there peacefully, which is honestly the better way to read that story.
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Stay safe, take care, and wash your hands! 🌻
- Mod Éowyn
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my favorite character from lord of the rings
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