Ringers “Lord of the fans”

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Lush

You know what I'd pay for? To see a (metaphoric... maybe) cage-fight between someone like davem and one of my old academic acquaintances with a penchant for Tolkien.

You sort your end out and I'll sort davem out for it

I wrote a review (of sorts) of Ringers somewhere on the Downs. I was a bit disappointed by it, really. All those stupid linking sequences really irritated me (it was like watching a YouTube remake of an Austin Powers dance sequence) and I thought the film makers focussed far too much on the films. What was very frustrating was they'd plainly been to Oxonmoot to interview Colin Duriez and Chris Crawshaw but never bothered to talk to any ordinary punters there - did they think they were too boring or were they just frightened when they saw people doing the Springle Ring?

Still, it 'filled up the corners'. There can't be enough Tolkien documentaries really. The best one bar none is JRRT A Film Portrait of JRR Tolkien, which is completely superb but not available now for many years; there is also an old BBC Omnibus one which is also very good, and earlier this year was the BBC4 documentary on Tolkien and Peake which was decent, too. Not much that's great about Fandom though. However, Ringers was the first 'go' at this and maybe there will be more with the coming of The Hobbit film?