Middle-Earth for Real?

[ninja91]

Not true, frodo1021. I am not saying I would go, but it would be pretty cool if they could pull something like that off, although I doubt there are any plans.

People would be made fun of if they went, because people should not get too into this nerdy stuff.

Originally Posted by frodo1021

People would be made fun of if they went, because people should not get too into this nerdy stuff.

What is nerdy about it?? This is not Harry Potter!!!

Everything. All you people want to do is speak Elvish.

[ninja91]

Think before you post, frodo1021.

Anyway, I think Mansun has a cool idea. It would be such a big undertaking though because it would take so much space, and the amount of funds they would need would be mindblowing...unless we helped them out!

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

I don't think there'd be any need for that. Provided that someone could get the requisite copyright permissions, I don't think they'd have much trouble selling the idea to investors. It isn't too difficult to find evidence that Middle-earth sells remarkably well.

The real question is whether the whole thing would be a five-minute wonder, declining with the memory of the recent films. I dare say that if the hypothetical park were to stand on its own without a Tolkien theme it would be likely enough to succeed. I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see something like this mooted, although if it hasn't been by now it probably never will.

However, why would anyone need more of a theme park than the Downs?

Originally Posted by unimaginative troll #247

All you people want to do is speak Elvish.

Damning criticism indeed, coming from someone who spent yesterday evening joining an internet discussion forum to which they didn't want to belong, discussing badly things in which they weren't interested and starting uninteresting threads that garnered no responses. Learning Quenya has rather more point to it, wouldn't you say, O Banned One?

[ninja91]

Originally Posted by The Squatter of Amon Rûdh

Damning criticism indeed, coming from someone who spent yesterday evening joining an internet discussion forum to which they didn't want to belong, discussing badly things in which they weren't interested and starting uninteresting threads that garnered no responses. Learning Quenya has rather more point to it, wouldn't you say, O Banned One?

Ouch
Nicely put!

It would be so hard to make one, though, because so much of what we see as Middle earth in the movies is computer generated...

Originally Posted by frodo1021

People would be made fun of if they went, because people should not get too into this nerdy stuff.

Frodo1021 how old are you? Please don't be offended by the question. Would people make fun of you if you told them you post threads on the Barrow Downs too?

I have to quote this again from Frodo1021 & try to decide if it is worth crying with laughter over, or just laughing out loud but not too much :-

Originally Posted by frodo1021

People would be made fun of if they went, because people should not get too into this nerdy stuff.

[Macalaure]

The funny thing is, that he regarded 'nerdy' as something negative.

It probably wouldn't work as a Tolkien's World theme park, but it certainly could be built to form part of another major theme park (not necessarily Disney Land) to see Middle-Earth brought to life. There could be touches of areas such as Hobbiton, Gandalf & his fireworks, Rivendell, Loth Lorien, the mines of Moria, the Dark Tower etc incorporated into it. Quite a fun day out for the children & tourists, but not so perhaps for the die hard Tolkein Book fans. The main theme behind it would have to be fun - so rollercoasters (e.g. in the mines of Moria etc) would have to be part of it.

But there are soo many theme parks out there, which is good, so do we really need a Tolkien-related one? For the general public it doesn't matter whether it has a Tolkien touch or not and I'm really not sure if die-hard fans would like it this way. I would rather buy a pint of ale at the Prancing Pony in my fantasy than buy some over-priced merchandise at an existing one.

Unless you can float down a wild river in a barrel! Then I'm in!

Originally Posted by Macalaure

The funny thing is, that he regarded 'nerdy' as something negative.


But there are soo many theme parks out there, which is good, so do we really need a Tolkien-related one? For the general public it doesn't matter whether it has a Tolkien touch or not and I'm really not sure if die-hard fans would like it this way. I would rather buy a pint of ale at the Prancing Pony in my fantasy than buy some over-priced merchandise at an existing one.

Unless you can float down a wild river in a barrel! Then I'm in!

I was just going to say, the Prancing Pony inn would have to be there too.