I Wanna Hold Your Ring! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lush · 03-31-2002, 08:53 PM

Do any of you guys know that back in the day the Beatles (one of my favorite bands, so I jest at their expense lovingly) wanted to do their own LotR movie? John was to be Gollum, Paul was to be Frodo, Ringo was to be Sam, and George coveted the role of Gandalf.Tolkien was still alive at that point, and had the movie rights, therefore he wisely told the Fab Four to sod off.Imagine what would have happened had he not!Gollum: "I am the Hobbit! They are the Hobbits-I am the Slinker...GOO GOO GOO JOOB!"Frodo: "Yesterday...All the Ringwraiths seemed so far away..."Sauron: "Oh, I get by with a little help from my Rings. Oh, I get high with a little help from my Rings..."Suddenly, PJ's version seems like a treat from heaven. Oh wait, I already viewed it as such as it is...

Tigerlily Gamgee · 03-31-2002, 08:55 PM

I think they mentioned that on the Dicovery Channel special. Now THAT would've been interesting yet wrong in so many ways!

ElanorGamgee · 03-31-2002, 08:58 PM

Oh my, a Lord of the Rings musical. That would have been interesting... [ March 31, 2002: Message edited by: ElanorGamgee ]

Araen · 03-31-2002, 09:36 PM

I would of loved to have seen that...........

Kalla · 03-31-2002, 09:58 PM

Actually...there is a piece of music entitled Lord of the Rings, but it's classical, not the Beatles.

Kalimac · 03-31-2002, 10:18 PM

Good Lord. What an exquisitely horrible idea. And what exactly did John think he was saying about himself by casting himself as Gollum? Hmmm. Do you think Yoko would have ended up as Arwen? The only specifically Beatles song that springs to mind is -Frodo: HELP! I need somebody - HELP! Not just anybody! etc. For plain old musical parodies (sorry, not trying to divert the thread, just expand on what was said earlier) how about a selection from "Cabaret"? Specifically -Sauron... Thinks I'm living out in Buckland A secluded little house in the north part of the Shire Sauron... Doesn't even have an inkling That I'm fleeing with his treasure through the Forest and the mire.So please, sir If you run into the Dark Lord Don't reveal my little errand Just leave well enough alone.Hush up! Don't tell Sauron Shush up! Don't tell Sauron Don't tell Sauron, whatever you do If you had a secret You bet I would keep it I would never tell on you...Etc etc etc.

LadyArwen · 03-31-2002, 10:25 PM

Lol! I can just imagine it ... if anyone had seen the Beatles version before reading the book, they would have got a horribly wrong idea about Lord of the Rings.

Kalla · 03-31-2002, 10:29 PM

Haha!! Yeah, musicals are interesting aren't they? Part of me says it would be really cool, but the musician in me says I know it'd be butchered. I think the movies are great...but they had to have three of those and each is how long? You'd have to have a Tolkien weekend just to put on the musical...hmm...hehe. Honestly, I'd go see it if it happened, but I think I'd be disappointed...course I'm used to seeing musicals behind the scene.

Lush · 03-31-2002, 10:41 PM

Despite the differences in hair color, I would have Yoko as Galadriel (imposing and with quite the temper) and Linda as Arwen (more serene). Whoa! Am I actually attempting to turn this into a serious discussion?

Lush · 03-31-2002, 10:47 PM

And Éowyn-she must be Jane Asher, of course! Why, it's all falling into place!...Hm, drawing freaky parallels so late at night, I wonder if it's not time for a drink, and for bed!

Birdland · 03-31-2002, 10:52 PM

Nah, if they had cast Yoko as Galadriel, it would have broken up the Fellowship.

Glenethor · 04-01-2002, 04:23 AM

While the Beatles are still my favourite band after all these years, if they had done LoTR, it would've been a mess a la Magical Mystery Tour. Some great music, but the movie would've been a surreal mess. Think Dali does Shakespeare....Lennon would've made a hilarious Gollum, though! Yoko as Galadriel....shudderThey could've probably got their friend, Mick Jagger, to play Sauron, though...he was doing his Satan impersonation at the time...

Aroaraniel · 04-01-2002, 11:59 AM

You people crack me up!! That would of been sooo funny!

04-01-2002, 12:19 PM

That would have been quite funny!

Orodhromeus · 04-02-2002, 01:56 PM

Joan Baez is Goldberry. Ritchie Blackmore gets the role for Beren in the Silmarillion movie...

Lush · 04-02-2002, 02:00 PM

What's next, Britney Spears as Lúthien in the pop-star remake?

Birdland · 04-02-2002, 08:18 PM

AND Gram Parsons as Denethor!(OK, this is only funny if you're up on dead 70s rock stars...heeeeeee!)

Lossenavariel · 04-02-2002, 09:22 PM

Funny people!!

Kalimac · 04-02-2002, 09:54 PM

Yoko as Galadriel would certainly lend resonance to the line "The Fellowship is breaking. It has already begun." And the audience would shout as one "You would know about that sort of thing, wouldn't you?"For Gollum, how about Tiny Tim? (Never understood his appeal, but maybe you had to be there). "Tiptoe through the Marshes with me..."

Birdland · 04-02-2002, 10:04 PM

Gee, Kalimac. I always pictured Tiny Tim as Bombadil, with Miss Vicky as Goldberry.Keith Richards as Gollum? Oooooh, no!...John Kay!

Nazgûl Queen · 04-03-2002, 01:37 AM

<center>Well, at the moment I'm trying to write Lord of the Miserables...Cept I cant decide whether to do the whole les Mis thing with a middleearth scene, or to make Legolas and marius swap places....

Enedhil · 04-03-2002, 03:52 PM

ROFLI love you guys...you cheer me up well. xxxThis is a great thread...i only wish I could add something witty too!!

Enedhil · 04-03-2002, 03:57 PM

Oh - how about...'all we are saying is give peace a chance...' ????quoth the Fellowship and the majority of Middle Earth

Zippo · 04-03-2002, 09:55 PM

heh...Thats Funny!

Neferchoirwen · 04-04-2002, 05:56 AM

Whoa. Thread is soooo hilarious. The Yoko as Galadriel bit really cracks me up. But Britney Spears in a pop-remake? hilarious. amusingly hilarious.

04-04-2002, 11:05 AM

Think Dali does Shakespeare.... <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Well that sounds REALLY good to me... I don't think it would've really been that splendid, amazing, wonderful as it sounds just a good laugh ME's too big and great for anyone to destroy it

03-31-2002, 08:53 PM	#1
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,803	I Wanna Hold Your Ring! Do any of you guys know that back in the day the Beatles (one of my favorite bands, so I jest at their expense lovingly) wanted to do their own LotR movie? John was to be Gollum, Paul was to be Frodo, Ringo was to be Sam, and George coveted the role of Gandalf.<P>Tolkien was still alive at that point, and had the movie rights, therefore he wisely told the Fab Four to sod off.<P>Imagine what would have happened had he not!<P>Gollum: "I am the Hobbit! They are the Hobbits-I am the Slinker...GOO GOO GOO JOOB!"<P>Frodo: "Yesterday...All the Ringwraiths seemed so far away..."<P>Sauron: "Oh, I get by with a little help from my Rings. Oh, I get high with a little help from my Rings..."<P>Suddenly, PJ's version seems like a treat from heaven. Oh wait, I already viewed it as such as it is... __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

03-31-2002, 08:55 PM	#2
Tigerlily Gamgee Hostess of Spirits Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Meduseld Posts: 1,056	I think they mentioned that on the Dicovery Channel special. Now THAT would've been interesting yet wrong in so many ways! __________________ ~ ExerciseJunky.com (Hobbits fitness of choice!)~ ~Lady of Rohan: An Eowyn Fansite ~ ~The NEW/OLD Barrow Downs Photo Page~

03-31-2002, 08:58 PM	#3
ElanorGamgee Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 314	Oh my, a <I>Lord of the Rings</I> musical. That would have been interesting... <p>[ March 31, 2002: Message edited by: ElanorGamgee ] __________________ Soli Deo Gloria

03-31-2002, 09:36 PM	#4
Araen Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 70	I would of loved to have seen that........... __________________ "Where is the horse and the rider, where is the horn that was blowing, they have passed like rain on the mountains, like wind in the meadow, the days are damned in the west? behind the hills? there are shadows... "

03-31-2002, 09:58 PM	#5
Kalla Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 57	Actually...there is a piece of music entitled Lord of the Rings, but it's classical, not the Beatles. __________________ "I wish the ring had never come to me...I wish none of this had happened." "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

03-31-2002, 10:18 PM	#6
Kalimac Candle of the Marshes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Flyover Country Posts: 780	Good Lord. What an exquisitely horrible idea. And what exactly did John think he was saying about himself by casting himself as Gollum? Hmmm. Do you think Yoko would have ended up as Arwen? <P>The only specifically Beatles song that springs to mind is -<P>Frodo: HELP! I need somebody - HELP! Not just anybody! etc. <P>For plain old musical parodies (sorry, not trying to divert the thread, just expand on what was said earlier) how about a selection from "Cabaret"? Specifically -<P>Sauron...<BR>Thinks I'm living out in Buckland<BR>A secluded little house in the north part of the Shire<BR>Sauron...<BR>Doesn't even have an inkling<BR>That I'm fleeing with his treasure through the Forest and the mire.<P>So please, sir<BR>If you run into the Dark Lord<BR>Don't reveal my little errand<BR>Just leave well enough alone.<P>Hush up! Don't tell Sauron<BR>Shush up! Don't tell Sauron<BR>Don't tell Sauron, whatever you do<BR>If you had a secret<BR>You bet I would keep it<BR>I would never tell on you...<P>Etc etc etc. __________________ Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.

03-31-2002, 10:25 PM	#7
LadyArwen Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: a land far, far away Posts: 14	Lol! I can just imagine it ... if anyone had seen the Beatles version before reading the book, they would have got a horribly wrong idea about Lord of the Rings. __________________ he, he, he.:evil

03-31-2002, 10:29 PM	#8
Kalla Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 57	Haha!! Yeah, musicals are interesting aren't they? Part of me says it would be really cool, but the musician in me says I know it'd be butchered. I think the movies are great...but they had to have three of those and each is how long? You'd have to have a Tolkien weekend just to put on the musical...hmm...hehe. Honestly, I'd go see it if it happened, but I think I'd be disappointed...course I'm used to seeing musicals behind the scene. __________________ "I wish the ring had never come to me...I wish none of this had happened." "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

03-31-2002, 10:41 PM	#9
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,803	Despite the differences in hair color, I would have Yoko as Galadriel (imposing and with quite the temper) and Linda as Arwen (more serene).<BR>Whoa! Am I actually attempting to turn this into a serious discussion? __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

03-31-2002, 10:47 PM	#10
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,803	And Éowyn-she must be Jane Asher, of course! Why, it's all falling into place!...<P>Hm, drawing freaky parallels so late at night, I wonder if it's not time for a drink, and for bed! __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

03-31-2002, 10:52 PM	#11
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,757	Nah, if they had cast Yoko as Galadriel, it would have broken up the Fellowship.

04-01-2002, 04:23 AM	#12
Glenethor Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow Posts: 176	While the Beatles are still my favourite band after all these years, if they had done LoTR, it would've been a mess a la Magical Mystery Tour. Some great music, but the movie would've been a surreal mess. Think Dali does Shakespeare....<P>Lennon would've made a hilarious Gollum, though!<BR> <P>Yoko as Galadriel....<I>shudder</I><P>They could've probably got their friend, Mick Jagger, to play Sauron, though...he <I>was</I> doing his Satan impersonation at the time... __________________ "Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people, living life in peace..." Dr. Winston O'Boogie

04-01-2002, 11:59 AM	#13
Aroaraniel Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Buckland Posts: 158	You people crack me up!! That would of been sooo funny! __________________ Pippin and Merry rule! -- Lissenen ar' maska'lalaith tenna' lye omentuva!

04-01-2002, 12:19 PM	#14
starbreeze Guest Posts: n/a	That would have been quite funny!

04-02-2002, 01:56 PM	#15
Orodhromeus Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Greece Posts: 106	Joan Baez is Goldberry. Ritchie Blackmore gets the role for Beren in the Silmarillion movie...

04-02-2002, 02:00 PM	#16
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,803	What's next, Britney Spears as Lúthien in the pop-star remake?<BR> __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

04-02-2002, 08:18 PM	#17
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,757	AND Gram Parsons as Denethor!<P>(OK, this is only funny if you're up on dead 70s rock stars...heeeeeee!)

04-02-2002, 09:22 PM	#18
Lossenavariel Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Marish Posts: 17	Funny people!! __________________ Lossenavariel

04-02-2002, 09:54 PM	#19
Kalimac Candle of the Marshes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Flyover Country Posts: 780	Yoko as Galadriel would certainly lend resonance to the line "The Fellowship is breaking. It has already begun." And the audience would shout as one "You would know about that sort of thing, wouldn't you?"<P>For Gollum, how about Tiny Tim? (Never understood his appeal, but maybe you had to be there). "Tiptoe through the Marshes with me..." __________________ Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.

04-02-2002, 10:04 PM	#20
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,757	Gee, Kalimac. I always pictured Tiny Tim as Bombadil, with Miss Vicky as Goldberry.<P>Keith Richards as Gollum? Oooooh, no!...John Kay!

04-03-2002, 01:37 AM	#21
Nazgûl Queen Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Minas Morgul Posts: 75	<center>Well, at the moment I'm trying to write Lord of the Miserables...<P>Cept I cant decide whether to do the whole les Mis thing with a middleearth scene, or to make Legolas and marius swap places.... __________________ - The Nazgûl they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death -

04-03-2002, 03:52 PM	#22
Enedhil Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scotland Posts: 102	ROFL<P>I love you guys...you cheer me up well. xxx<P>This is a great thread...i only wish I could add something witty too!! __________________ Meanwhile these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. And the greatest of these is Love.

04-03-2002, 03:57 PM	#23
Enedhil Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scotland Posts: 102	Oh - how about...<P>'all we are saying is give peace a chance...' ????<P>quoth the Fellowship and the majority of Middle Earth __________________ Meanwhile these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. And the greatest of these is Love.

04-03-2002, 09:55 PM	#24
Zippo Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: I live in...well I live every where! HAHAHA! Posts: 49	heh...Thats Funny! __________________ I am Saki The Conqueror, Ruler of the east and the west and ALL That is In between!

04-04-2002, 05:56 AM	#25
Neferchoirwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: RtR: 483.3 miles, Fords of Bruinen Posts: 513	Whoa. Thread is soooo hilarious. The Yoko as Galadriel bit really cracks me up. But Britney Spears in a pop-remake? hilarious. amusingly hilarious. __________________ On really romantic nights of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. ~Speed Levitch http://crevicesofsilence.blogspot.com/

04-04-2002, 11:05 AM	#26
krishnablue7 Guest Posts: n/a	Think Dali does Shakespeare.... <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Well that sounds REALLY good to me...<BR> I don't think it would've really been that splendid, amazing, wonderful as it sounds<BR> just a good laugh<P> ME's too big and great for anyone to destroy it