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HOBBITFAN13
Lorien
Jun 17 2017, 11:40am
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If you were stuck on an island, which of the Middle Earth movies would you have with you?
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You can only choose ONE:
An Unexpected Journey?
The Desolation of Smaug?
The Battle of the Five Armies?
The Fellowship of the Ring?
The Two Towers?
The Return of the King?
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Otaku-sempai
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Jun 17 2017, 12:38pm
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Shoulda done this as a formal poll in the Pollantir forum!
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That said, I find 'only one' to be an impossible choice. I'm also surprised you didn't ask: Theatrical Cut or Extended Edition?
Now, if the choice was between the two trilogies it would be easy: The Lord of the Rings (extended editions).
"He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows." -- Favorite proverb of the wizard Ningauble of the Seven Eyes
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Ethel Duath
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Jun 17 2017, 2:08pm
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Fellowship. With the added advantage
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that I would no longer be stranded. (Does it use sails or oars?)
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Ataahua
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Jun 17 2017, 9:30pm
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Hard to choose between FOTR EE and ROTK TE.
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ROTK's Ride of the Rohirrim or Balrog v Gandalf? That's a tough one to pick!
...probably FOTR, as it's the more complete story in and of itself.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Ataahua
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Jun 17 2017, 9:30pm
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Well, not so much the 'stuck' bit...
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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NottaSackville
Valinor
Jun 19 2017, 4:53pm
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Living over and over through that "Oh, they nailed it!" feeling that hit me during the prologue would get me through a lot of days during the rainy season. Or winter. Or whatever the bad part of the year is wherever this island happens to be.
Notta
Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville
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NottaSackville
Valinor
Jun 19 2017, 5:03pm
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Apparently at least twice in 2016:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...anks-to-sos-message/
The little boy in me whose favorite books included "The Coral Island" and "Lord of the Flies" is glad to know that dreams still can come true.
Notta
Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville
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Darkstone
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Jun 19 2017, 8:12pm
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Like Jackson said, the main reason you take on Lord of the Rings is to make The Return of the King.
Plus the Theatrical Edition extras contain the Supertrailer, which is basically a Reader's Digest version of the film. I've heard grammaboodawg uses it as a quick fix for LOTR withdrawal.
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Once Radagast dreamt he was a moth, a moth flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Radagast. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakably Radagast. But he didn't know if he was Radagast who had dreamt he was a moth, or a moth dreaming he was Radagast. Between Radagast and a moth there must be some distinction! But really, there isn't, because he's actually Aiwendil dreaming he's both Radagast *and* a moth!
-From Radagasti: The Moth Dream
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Darkstone
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Jun 19 2017, 8:56pm
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When was the last time anyone was actually stuck on an island?)
For me, in the early 70s. Wake, Guam, Okinawa, and Greenland. Technically the Philippines and Britain.
I recall up in Thule they alternated between showing John Wayne's Chisum with an especially worn print of The Abominable Dr. Phibes that broke during just about every showing.
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Once Radagast dreamt he was a moth, a moth flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Radagast. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakably Radagast. But he didn't know if he was Radagast who had dreamt he was a moth, or a moth dreaming he was Radagast. Between Radagast and a moth there must be some distinction! But really, there isn't, because he's actually Aiwendil dreaming he's both Radagast *and* a moth!
-From Radagasti: The Moth Dream
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Darkstone
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Jun 19 2017, 9:05pm
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As to the Island... it doesn't necessarily mean on a piece of earth surrounded by water. ;)
Back during the drought in 2009 and then 2011 on occasion Wichita Falls was temporarily an island surrounded by wildfires. Luckily it never knocked out our power or the cable TV.
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Once Radagast dreamt he was a moth, a moth flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Radagast. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakably Radagast. But he didn't know if he was Radagast who had dreamt he was a moth, or a moth dreaming he was Radagast. Between Radagast and a moth there must be some distinction! But really, there isn't, because he's actually Aiwendil dreaming he's both Radagast *and* a moth!
-From Radagasti: The Moth Dream
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L. Ron Halfelven
Grey Havens
Jun 20 2017, 12:25am
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The 1966 copyright-maintenance version of The Hobbit.
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I mean, if I'm unlucky enough to be stuck on an island in the first place, what are the chances I get something good like the FOTR EE to watch?
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dreamflower
Lorien
Jun 20 2017, 9:01pm
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Fellowship of the Ring, EE
If only two,
FotR:EE
and TH:The Unexpected Journey, EE
If more all of them.
Or skip the movies and give me the entire EE score by Howard Shore plus all the books.
Oh, and whichever: a device to play them on and enough batteries to keep them going or some other power source.
Some people call it fanfiction. I call it story-internal literary criticism.
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FarFromHome
Valinor
Jun 21 2017, 7:52pm
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(I am always curious why the "stuck on an island" trope for this kind of self-examination has such staying power. When was the last time anyone was actually stuck on an island?) The BBC started broadcasting Desert Island Discs in 1942, and it's still going strong in 2017. It seems to fit the pattern of the trope very well, although I don't know if it was picking up on an idea that was already out there at the time. It's certainly been a very robust format that hasn't changed much over the years. Each week a different celebrity "castaway" gets to pick eight recordings they would take with them to their island, plus a book and a luxury item. Early episodes have been lost (the BBC had a habit of recycling its tapes in the early days), but there's a searchable archive with over 3000 interviews. You can search on various items, including the book that the castaways chose - Tolkien's been picked a number of times over the years! (I noticed Sir Edmund Hillary picked LotR in 1979, long before he could have known that it would end up being filmed in his homeland! I recall a lovely little LotR movie extra of him visiting a location shoot and Peter Jackson worrying that the conqueror of Everest, now an old man, might slip and fall on the uneven ground!)
They went in, and Sam shut the door.
But even as he did so, he heard suddenly,
deep and unstilled,
the sigh and murmur of the Sea upon the shores of Middle-earth.
From the unpublished Epilogue to the Lord of the Rings
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Eruclauron
Bree
Jun 23 2017, 11:16pm
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Definitely the extended edition of The Return of the King: I get to enjoy Middle-earth longer then. 
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dormouse
Half-elven
Jun 25 2017, 9:00am
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But does the island have power and all necessary technology?
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Because if not.....
Well, actually, if it does or doesn't I'm OK because I can play them all in my head. And trust me, I would!
And if I really, really had to choose one when I would take all (and remember, even Desert Island Discs allows boxed sets/ bound volumes) it would be either the Fellowship EE or Battle of the Five Armies EE - because... beginning, or end.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .
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Silverlode
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Jun 26 2017, 7:54am
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If there's one thing I learned from watching Gilligan's Island as a kid....
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It's that you can power anything with coconuts (except a rescue beacon).
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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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dormouse
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Jun 26 2017, 8:38am
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In that case please may I take a copy.....
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...of 101 useful things to do with a coconut! 
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .
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L. Ron Halfelven
Grey Havens
Jun 26 2017, 3:17pm
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The Numenoreans used coconuts for everything in the early days./
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