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Eruonen
Half-elven
Nov 26 2015, 6:17am
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Michael Pellerin deserves recognition for putting together the appendices
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along with Kevin Shukur and the rest of their crew. The idea of a completely separate film crew on set documenting the moving being made is something that both LOTR and The Hobbit movies have done better than anyone else. There should be an Oscar category for "Film Documentation" or similar name.
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Aragorn the Elfstone
Tol Eressea
Nov 26 2015, 7:43am
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There is no praise high enough...
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for the work that Michael and his crew have done.
Despite my enjoyment of the films, I will admit that they didn't rise to the level of LotR for me. But there are two areas in which my original expectations were completely met. One, as I've said before, has been Howard Shore's beautiful scores.
The other is the astounding work on the Appendices. The documentaries continued the amazing standard set by the LotR Appendices, and in certain respects even surpassed them.
I cannot thank everyone involved enough for the amazing journey behind the scenes of these films - from the very first Video Blog to the final farewell on Part 12 of the Appendices. We are left with a magnificent living, breathing archive (as Sean Astin once put it) of the incredible efforts put forward by so many talented people.
"The danger with any movie that does as well as this one does is that the amount of money it's making and the number of awards that it's got becomes almost more important than the movie itself in people's minds. I look at that as, in a sense, being very much like the Ring, and its effect on people. You know, you can kind of forget what we were doing, if you get too wrapped up in that."
- Viggo Mortensen
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Silverlode
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Nov 26 2015, 8:02am
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Silverlode
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
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Erethen
The Shire
Nov 27 2015, 7:08am
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To me, the appendices are the things I always looked forward to the most with the release of each new EE. Honestly, I watch the appendices more than I do the movies! Still to this day I pour over the appendices for LOTR and TH. I love listening to their stories of filming, designing and what not. They never get old and I always feel like I'm among them and it makes me wish I were involved!
When TH was announced, the idea of new appendices was one of the most exciting to me!
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Eruonen
Half-elven
Nov 27 2015, 5:56pm
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Yes, they have the most emotional, educational, interesting and unique content.
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Despite what all of us think about the end products, we know they were made with love and a good heart to do the best job (within the vision of the filmmaker).
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Toukol
Bree
Nov 29 2015, 8:10pm
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Michael and his crew did a fantastic job. Watching the whole document across the making of all three movies was as enjoyable as watching The Hobbit itself.
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