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MYyyPreciousSS · 01-05-2003, 09:51 PM

9.5!

Faye Took · 01-05-2003, 09:52 PM

I'm going to have to say a 9. I loved it though, I really did. The battle scenes were AWESOME! Hehe

alaklondewen · 01-05-2003, 10:33 PM

8.5

MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie · 01-05-2003, 10:58 PM

Well as of alaklondewen's post, TTT stands at an average of 8.768292683. Hmmm, it got better. The range is still 4 (LePetitChoux's idea). Well, either I don't know how to do standard deviation, or I forgot how to (probably forgot). So LePetitChoux, if you want to, you can be in charge of doing that.Thanks for the votes again.

Beren87 · 01-05-2003, 11:01 PM

As a movie in general -11 From A tolkienites perspective, 7.5Minus points for the incredible number of mistakes. Plus points for battle scenes, casting, and special effects.

01-05-2003, 11:39 PM

5

Calencoire · 01-08-2003, 05:48 PM

9.5

Jeli Baggins · 01-10-2003, 03:40 PM

10 all the way!!!! Oops sorry, I forgot we could only say the number....

Luinalatawen · 01-10-2003, 09:58 PM

TTT is an 8 with the book and Tolkien's story in mind, but a 10 as a movie overall.

Magician of Nathar · 01-10-2003, 10:31 PM

9.5Everything are pretty good. I actually enjoyed the changes in the plot line. It's very interesting. The acting was splendid, the special effect was beyond belief, and the music was divine! (oh Howard Shore i worship you!) The only revolting thing was the editing. I know it's hard to edit such a lengthy and large work, but at least you could link all the scenes together properly!

Dimannûnien · 01-11-2003, 08:20 AM

10 without a doubt. It's what's made me look at Tolkien websites for the last week when I'd never been near one before.

ElentariGreenleaf · 01-11-2003, 08:34 AM

9 cause of da lovey dovey stuff. THE WAR WAS GREAT! 10 for that! 10 for graphicsOver all: 10!!!!

Thingol1000 · 01-11-2003, 08:45 AM

9.8

Luinsewiel · 01-11-2003, 08:54 AM

I think 6 (because of the changes in Elrond, Faramir, and killing Haldir)

HCIsland · 01-11-2003, 07:32 PM

9The changes don't bother me at all. Film is a very different medium and I can understand pretty much all the changes that were made (well, Faramir was a bit edgier then I would have liked).The only thing really stoping me from giving a 10 is how absolutely powerful the breaking of the Fellowship was at the end of the first film. As a climax, it was far more moving then in Two Towers. I don't think TT could have matched that.H.C.

Daisy Brambleburr · 04-24-2003, 01:05 PM

7

Faramir Fan · 04-24-2003, 01:40 PM

8.5...and it would have been a 10 if they had portrayed Faramir properly...

Estanesse · 04-24-2003, 01:57 PM

I give it a 4 I think the TTT movie is a disgrace to the book[ April 24, 2003: Message edited by: Estanesse ]

Frodo 007 · 04-25-2003, 12:28 AM

10 all the way!!!!

Katherine712 · 04-25-2003, 08:04 PM

9.5

steve · 04-25-2003, 08:10 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I give it a 4 I think the TTT movie is a disgrace to the book <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I agree totally, but i give it a 5.5

**The Saucepan Man** · 04-25-2003, 09:34 PM

Just to redress the balance, I'll give it a 9. My reasons are scattered throughout these threads.

Iarwain · 04-25-2003, 10:05 PM

Hate to be the rebel, but my opinion stands.3It would be even less were it not for the wonderful work with Gollum, and Sam's interpretation of hope in Middle-Earth. However, I fear these two accomplishments were lost amid the shallow plot changes and unnecessary side stories, and the fact that the film ended with half the story left untold.Iarwain

MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie · 04-26-2003, 01:21 AM

Actually, I'd like to change my vote to a 5 (it used to be an 8). I don't know why because when I first thought 8, I was still extremely angry over the changes and all. But now, I've calmed down a lot (and I do mean a lot) and I want to give it less.

Arvedui III · 04-26-2003, 06:07 PM

herm, 8.5 - 9

04-26-2003, 07:17 PM

I feel stupid with everyone voting so hi but I would have to say 7.5 i loved it though I just judge it by the book with the understanding that it cant match it otherwise the score would be lower.

Schmendrick · 04-27-2003, 03:49 AM

Can't believe I haven't voted yet! I have to give a 7, was very disappointed with it (in comparaison to the FOTR, which I loved). The scenery was great, though. Hope they'll do a better work with the ROTK!

Lyra Greenleaf · 04-27-2003, 05:04 AM

This is so hard. I have to agree with someone (I can't remember who) who said that as a film, it's fantastic. As a "Film of the book" it was pretty bad. What with Faramir and everything... Well, I promised myself I would think of it as a film in it's own right without comparing the two anymore sooo- 9.5

Phervasaion · 04-27-2003, 06:03 AM

Id give it a 9.

elven maiden Earwen · 04-27-2003, 09:43 AM

8.5

Angadraug · 04-27-2003, 10:58 AM

I don't like how they cut so much of the end out but I'll be generous - 9

Catherine · 04-27-2003, 11:14 AM

9.5

Talon Stormcrow · 04-27-2003, 11:24 AM

hmmm... Id give it an 8

Gimli stonesheild · 08-12-2003, 12:41 PM

9.5

Cleansed Curunir · 08-12-2003, 12:45 PM

I'd say 8 also.

Elennar Starfire · 08-12-2003, 12:56 PM

7.5

The Only Real Estel · 08-12-2003, 01:01 PM

7.5 The changes don't bother me as muich as the fact that the movie just wasn't put together all that greatly (I deleted my last post so don't yell at me, & sorry for the explanaiton, but I had to ).

Arwen Eruantale · 08-12-2003, 09:21 PM

9.5

08-12-2003, 11:17 PM

Id give it a 8.5.

Kaiserin · 08-13-2003, 12:16 AM

10 - as a movie 7 - in its integrity AVERAGE: 8.5

01-05-2003, 09:51 PM	#41
MYyyPreciousSS Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: the Here and Now Posts: 113	9.5! __________________ Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her. "My Preciousss" - the line that started the obsession.

01-05-2003, 09:52 PM	#42
Faye Took Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 345	I'm going to have to say a 9. I loved it though, I really did. The battle scenes were AWESOME! Hehe __________________ Dream-of the ones who came before. They are calling from across a distant shore. My Blog

01-05-2003, 10:33 PM	#43
alaklondewen Song of Seregon Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Following the road less traveled Posts: 1,201	8.5 __________________ At last I understand why we have waited! This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away!

01-05-2003, 10:58 PM	#44
MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 575	Well as of alaklondewen's post, TTT stands at an average of 8.768292683. Hmmm, it got better. The range is still 4 (LePetitChoux's idea). Well, either I don't know how to do standard deviation, or I forgot how to (probably forgot). So LePetitChoux, if you want to, you can be in charge of doing that.<P>Thanks for the votes again. __________________ Do Not Touch -Willie

01-05-2003, 11:01 PM	#45
Beren87 Master of the Secret Fire Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Between fire and ice, death and life Posts: 2,266	As a movie in general -11<BR>From A tolkienites perspective, 7.5<P>Minus points for the incredible number of mistakes. Plus points for battle scenes, casting, and special effects.

01-08-2003, 05:48 PM	#47
Calencoire Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Rivendell Posts: 89	9.5 __________________ Where there is life, there is hope

01-10-2003, 03:40 PM	#48
Jeli Baggins Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 69	10 all the way!!!! Oops sorry, I forgot we could only say the number.... __________________ "My dear Frodo! Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you." ~ Gandalf to Frodo

01-10-2003, 09:58 PM	#49
Luinalatawen Wight Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 137	TTT is an 8 with the book and Tolkien's story in mind, but a 10 as a movie overall. __________________ My philosophy: A chapter of a Tolkien book a day keeps Sauron's hitmen away.

01-10-2003, 10:31 PM	#50
Magician of Nathar Animated Skeleton Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 46	9.5<P>Everything are pretty good. I actually enjoyed the changes in the plot line. It's very interesting. The acting was splendid, the special effect was beyond belief, and the music was divine! (oh Howard Shore i worship you!) The only revolting thing was the editing. I know it's hard to edit such a lengthy and large work, but at least you could link all the scenes together properly!

01-11-2003, 08:20 AM	#51
Dimannûnien Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 36	10 without a doubt. It's what's made me look at Tolkien websites for the last week when I'd never been near one before.

01-11-2003, 08:34 AM	#52
ElentariGreenleaf Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Look, I'm over there! Posts: 517	9 cause of da lovey dovey stuff. THE WAR WAS GREAT! 10 for that! 10 for graphics<P>Over all: 10!!!! __________________ There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Website\|Art

01-11-2003, 08:45 AM	#53
Thingol1000 Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 37	9.8

01-11-2003, 08:54 AM	#54
Luinsewiel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Great Grey-Green Greasy Limpopo River, All Set About With Fever Trees Posts: 57	I think 6 (because of the changes in Elrond, Faramir, and killing Haldir) __________________ Take David Suzuki's nature challenge today ---> www.davidsuzuki.org

01-11-2003, 07:32 PM	#55
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	9<P>The changes don't bother me at all. Film is a very different medium and I can understand pretty much all the changes that were made (well, Faramir was a bit edgier then I would have liked).<P>The only thing really stoping me from giving a 10 is how absolutely powerful the breaking of the Fellowship was at the end of the first film. As a climax, it was far more moving then in Two Towers. I don't think TT could have matched that.<P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor

04-24-2003, 01:05 PM	#56
Daisy Brambleburr Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 334	7 __________________ 'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve? Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.'

01-05-2003, 11:39 PM	#46
tirinor Guest Posts: n/a	5

04-24-2003, 01:40 PM	#57
Faramir Fan Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 72	8.5...and it would have been a 10 if they had portrayed Faramir properly... __________________ "A new character has come on the scene (I am sure I did not invent him, I did not even want him, though I like him, but there he came walking into the woods of Ithilien): Faramir, the brother of Boromir..." J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters No. 66

04-24-2003, 01:57 PM	#58
Estanesse Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: somewhere far away Posts: 561	I give it a 4 <BR>I think the TTT movie is a disgrace to the book<p>[ April 24, 2003: Message edited by: Estanesse ] __________________ Since there is no time like the present, I thought it was time to present the present.

04-25-2003, 12:28 AM	#59
Frodo 007 Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Wellington, New Zealand (Middle-Earth Baby Yeah!!!) Posts: 85	10 all the way!!!! __________________ Elen Sila Lúmenn' Omentielvo

04-25-2003, 08:04 PM	#60
Katherine712 Pile O'Bones Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: New York Posts: 16	9.5 __________________ ~Katherine~ (waves only for Boromir the Disco King) Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

04-25-2003, 08:10 PM	#61
steve Wight Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Edoras... er, Philadelphia Posts: 191	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I give it a 4 <BR>I think the TTT movie is a disgrace to the book <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I agree totally, but i give it a 5.5 __________________ MAGIC SHOP! Spells of Mass Destruction 20% off! Today Only!

04-25-2003, 09:34 PM	#62
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,468	Just to redress the balance, I'll give it a 9. My reasons are scattered throughout these threads. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

04-25-2003, 10:05 PM	#63
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 808	Hate to be the rebel, but my opinion stands.<P>3<P>It would be even less were it not for the wonderful work with Gollum, and Sam's interpretation of hope in Middle-Earth. However, I fear these two accomplishments were lost amid the shallow plot changes and unnecessary side stories, and the fact that the film ended with half the story left untold.<P>Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"

04-26-2003, 01:21 AM	#64
MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 575	Actually, I'd like to change my vote to a 5 (it used to be an 8). I don't know why because when I first thought 8, I was still extremely angry over the changes and all. But now, I've calmed down a lot (and I do mean a lot) and I want to give it less. __________________ Do Not Touch -Willie

04-26-2003, 06:07 PM	#65
Arvedui III Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In Rohan, with Carolina on my mind Posts: 631	herm, 8.5 - 9 __________________ I have no idea what you just said, but I'm inspired!

04-26-2003, 07:17 PM	#66
BigEyedDwarfilatti Guest Posts: n/a	I feel stupid with everyone voting so hi but I would have to say 7.5 i loved it though I just judge it by the book with the understanding that it cant match it otherwise the score would be lower.

04-27-2003, 03:49 AM	#67
Schmendrick Wight Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: unidentified Posts: 105	Can't believe I haven't voted yet!<BR>I have to give a 7, was very disappointed with it (in comparaison to the FOTR, which I loved). The scenery was great, though.<BR>Hope they'll do a better work with the ROTK! __________________ Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier, I have seen worse sights than this. - Iliad -

04-27-2003, 05:04 AM	#68
Lyra Greenleaf The Diaphanous Dryad Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: R toL: 531, past the wild path Posts: 1,180	This is so hard. I have to agree with someone (I can't remember who) who said that as a film, it's fantastic. As a "Film of the book" it was pretty bad. What with Faramir and everything... <BR>Well, I promised myself I would think of it as a film in it's own right without comparing the two anymore sooo-<BR>9.5 __________________ “Sylphs of the forest,” I whispered. “Spirits of oak, beech and ash. Dryads of Rowan and hazel, hear us. You who have guided and guarded our every footstep, you who have sheltered our growth, we honour you." the Forbidden Link

04-27-2003, 06:03 AM	#69
Phervasaion Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The wilderness of Middle-Earth Posts: 306	Id give it a 9. __________________ Phervasaion

04-27-2003, 09:43 AM	#70
elven maiden Earwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A world that never was and never will be Posts: 1,325	8.5 __________________ We pillage and plunder, we rifle and loot, Drink up me hearties, Yo Ho. the looniest site in the world!!!

04-27-2003, 10:58 AM	#71
Angadraug Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 44	I don't like how they cut so much of the end out but I'll be generous - 9

04-27-2003, 11:14 AM	#72
Catherine Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Lothlorien Posts: 297	9.5 __________________ ~.:Catherine:.~ "I have never been out of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like. I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it." ~Merry to Haldir in Lothlórien~

04-27-2003, 11:24 AM	#73
Talon Stormcrow Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The Realm of the Sons of Elendil the Fair Posts: 43	hmmm... Id give it an 8 __________________ -Talon- "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens" -Gimli Son of Gloin.

08-12-2003, 12:41 PM	#74
Gimli stonesheild Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Barrow Alaska Posts: 14	9.5 __________________ “you could have picked a better spot” “Do you want me to discribe it to you or get you a box?”

08-12-2003, 12:45 PM	#75
Cleansed Curunir Newly Deceased Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: purified Isengard Posts: 10	I'd say 8 also.

08-12-2003, 12:56 PM	#76
Elennar Starfire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Nowhere...now here Posts: 1,049	7.5 __________________ Don't let me die!