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AinurOlorin
Valinor
Feb 5, 7:17am
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Thrilled the Pinecones were included. . . but they could have been more impressively managed, and being true to the book would have made it so.
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I don't mean the scene as a whole. I think having the tree dangling actually made it more plausible for Gandalf to do less, and that worked for me. My issue is with how the pinecones themselves were handled. First, I am glad they made it in at all. It is the sort of thing I could have seen Peter cutting, and I am glad that didn't happen. HOWEVER. . . I know Peter's long history of claiming to dislike pyrotechnic displays, especially because they can come off looking tacky. And yet, by making the pinecone fires less spectacular, he makes them look more gimmicky and tacky than they would have given a more impressive treatment. They are effective, but more comic and less spectacular than they easily could have been. Following the books colour change to blue would have done alot for them, but it also would have aided if the first, the one thrown by Gandalf, had exhibited some minor concussive/explosive force upon hitting the ground. Nothing ridiculous, but a bursting effect with the appropriate auditory. The end result would have been essentially the same, but it would have made for a better show.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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Thrilled the Pinecones were included. . . but they could have been more impressively managed, and being true to the book would have made it so.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 5, 7:17am
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Really?
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Roheryn
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Feb 5, 8:14am
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Would that have been bad?
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Ardamírë
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Feb 5, 11:50am
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One of the things...
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Arannir
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Feb 5, 12:28pm
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I think those things could have worked
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Ardamírë
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Feb 5, 3:05pm
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Blue flame is commonly seen in everyday life. There are extremely large and hot Blue Stars. Any gas stove lights up more blue than anything.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 5, 10:21pm
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Fire
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Arannir
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Feb 6, 8:20am
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You can get a green flame or other colours eg purple
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imin
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Feb 5, 1:05pm
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Ah, I stand corrected.
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Ardamírë
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Feb 5, 3:03pm
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No, actually, not necessarily.
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Roheryn
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Feb 5, 8:23pm
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Ah, ok.
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Ardamírë
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Feb 5, 10:43pm
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less is more
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swordwhale
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Feb 5, 4:31pm
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I was never in the realism howling choir anyway. No mortal knows the fundemental nature of reality, and if I wanted a more everyday experience
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 5, 10:15pm
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Now that you've mentioned it
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Súlimë
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Feb 5, 1:27pm
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could not disagree more
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Lindele
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Feb 5, 1:40pm
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Would have improved the scene
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stoutfiles
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Feb 5, 2:54pm
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Yeah the angry hug is the cheesiest part
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imin
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Feb 5, 3:01pm
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Well...
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Arannir
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Feb 5, 5:38pm
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Thank you.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 5, 10:27pm
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A little color might hve been nice
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Rostron2
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Feb 5, 6:08pm
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big mistake
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jimmyfenn
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Feb 6, 11:29am
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LMAO "If it wasn't mentioned, we would have gotten it"
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 6, 9:40pm
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I don't think different color fire would have looked 'magical'
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Loresilme
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Feb 6, 4:43pm
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ooh
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jimmyfenn
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Feb 6, 5:05pm
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I am an American. And blue fire still says magic to me.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 6, 9:48pm
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I loved the blue light in Goblin Town
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Loresilme
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Feb 6, 11:32pm
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And that is why I stuck with blue. The Animated version (and even a videogame version of The Hobbit)
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 7, 12:08am
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photoshop job
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jimmyfenn
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Feb 7, 10:43am
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lol
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 7, 4:25pm
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Gandalf didn't feel lessened
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Elessar
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Feb 7, 4:34pm
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I am not saying it was baaaaad. And I am glad it was in at all, as I have said.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 7, 4:52pm
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Its all good
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Elessar
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Feb 7, 5:40pm
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