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glor
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Feb 9 2013, 5:53pm
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..version of TH and probably as a PG rated children's film with live action 'disney style' dwarves. This would have impacted any subsequent LOTR films, with film companies demanding that they would also be PG rated.
The LOTR films did push their PG-13 rating, in fact a few commentators back in the day suggested that if the battle scenes in LOTR had been human versus human rather than, versus orcs, a la historical based epics, the LOTR films would have received an R rating or 15 rating like Ridley Scott's Gladiator.
Can you imagine a sanatised safe for children film version of LOTR, or even the Hobbit? The inability of any film-maker to show the darker, and deeper side of Tolkien's work, to show the consequences of battle, etc.
I seriously think that making TH first would have changed a lot, film execs would have children's book= proper aimed soley at children film, not only would that have affected characterization, created a highlysanitized/disneyfied middle-earth, it would have also affected the casting. I can't imagine Sir Ian, and quite a few of the other iconic cast members of LOTR or TH signing on or even being interesting in being part of such a child like M-E.
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Thought experiment: what if The Hobbit had been filmed before Lord of the Rings?
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matthauger
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Feb 8 2013, 12:13pm
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As someone who got introduced to Tolkien's books through PJs adaptations...
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Verbal_Daggers
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Feb 8 2013, 1:11pm
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We would have
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Lindele
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Feb 8 2013, 1:40pm
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Maybe...
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matthauger
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Feb 8 2013, 2:20pm
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Or maybe...
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RalphDamiani
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Feb 8 2013, 3:02pm
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Hobbit
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Lonely Mountain
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Feb 8 2013, 3:19pm
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Nah... one Hobbit and ZERO LOTR film.
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xxxyyy
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Feb 8 2013, 3:42pm
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We have discussed this topic several times on the boards...
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Otaku-sempai
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Feb 8 2013, 4:28pm
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Luckily that didn't happen!
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BoromirOfWinterfell
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Feb 8 2013, 4:34pm
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We might have still gotten a cameo of Legolas...
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Otaku-sempai
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Feb 8 2013, 4:54pm
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The LOTR cast would be different too
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glor
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Feb 9 2013, 5:03pm
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Richard Armitage as Boromir...*spoiler*
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BoromirOfWinterfell
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Feb 9 2013, 5:10pm
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It Might Have Changed the Overall Tone
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IdrilofGondolin
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Feb 8 2013, 5:01pm
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I imagine:
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Marionette
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Feb 8 2013, 6:23pm
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yes, one short..
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glor
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Feb 9 2013, 5:53pm
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There would be world peace
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Rostron2
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Feb 8 2013, 8:52pm
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