Lord of the Rings Q&A

[Gurm]

As a public service to the MURC, I have decided to open up a thread for Questions and Answers regarding The Lord of the Rings. They can be movie or book related (or both).

If I can't answer your question, I'll defer to the Green Books staff... I'm no Anwyn or Quickbeam, that's for certain.

- Gurm

P.S. Green Books are found at The One Ring:

http://www.theonering.net

P.P.S. All of Tolkien's mythos is fair game.

[Paddy]

How many characters are contained in all three volumes?

[Novdid]

I haven't read the books. So after seeing TTT I have one question.

Here goes: Are the Ents capable to root themselves to the ground?

I know it's a silly question but the current was pretty strong...

[Paddy]

I have not yet seen the film, but AFAIK, yes.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Obvious you have not seen the film. According to your avatar, your head is cut off

[Umfriend]

Gurm, does this go for LoTR only or for the Silmarillion as well?
Umf

[Technoid]

Gurm, are you truly obsessed with LoTR??

[thop]

do the ents actually have a face?

[Topha]

hehe, some of those questions will hopefully be answered later this year http://dvd.ign.com/articles/381/381227p1.html

my only question is why he only made three movies, not six 3-hour movies would have been nice

[Evildead666]

he only made three movies cos there are three books.
Secondly, i should think the people who pay for it all, would like to see some cash asap, and would like the minimum risk, ie less films.
Three films is just right. he hasn't missed anything, i think.

Gurm - Has anything from the first two books been left out in the films yet?

[TdB]

Originally posted by Evildead666
he only made three movies cos there are three books.
Secondly, i should think the people who pay for it all, would like to see some cash asap, and would like the minimum risk, ie less films.

AFAIK there is 6 books, they were just published as 3 books, the publishers decision was purely financial, and had nothing to do with the story.

[Topha]

yep, there are 6 books, but they rolled 2 into 1 3 times

and yes, there is a lot of stuff that did not make it into the movie, but there are rumours that PJ's favoured cut of the first movie is almost 5 hours, and that some of the versions of the 2nd movie he suggested for theatrical release were more than 4 hours as well.

dont know how much of that is true, but maybe we will see it on DVD when all three movies are out, or maybe even in a couple of years, like star wars special edition, only much much longer

as for the ents, i think you can actually see them rooting themselves to the ground when they flood isengard

One question for Gurm: do the elves really come to the aid of the people in helms deep, or did PJ make that one up?

[knirfie]

LotR Special Edition, 15 hours of non-stop Tolkien

[Gurm]

Originally posted by Novdid
I haven't read the books. So after seeing TTT I have one question.

Here goes: Are the Ents capable to root themselves to the ground?

I know it's a silly question but the current was pretty strong...

Yes. In fact, the way they broke through the outer wall of Isengard is...

You know how tree roots will, over the course of years, crack stone?

Ents can do that in a splitsecond. They are trees "incarnate".

- Gurm

[Gurm]

Originally posted by Umfriend
Gurm, does this go for LoTR only or for the Silmarillion as well?
Umf

I'll TRY to help with Silmarillion. Tolkien's mythos in general, how's that?

- Gurm