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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Sep 30 2014, 8:18pm
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I just stumbled across this fan-made Silmarillion trailer
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(using clips from various movies.) I found it very moving. link
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DaughterofLaketown
Gondor
Sep 30 2014, 10:18pm
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I wish I knew what movies that was compiled from! They all looked epic in their own right.
"And so they stood on the walls of the city of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air."
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Ethel Duath
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Sep 30 2014, 11:54pm
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I'm not sure they should ever bring the Sil to the screen. But if they did (and stuck--really--to the book) maybe this person should be the one . . .
Thank you!
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cats16
Half-elven
Oct 1 2014, 12:16am
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I have a sudden great urge to pick up the Silm right now.
I would love to see it brought to the screen, someday.
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Glassary
Rivendell
Oct 1 2014, 12:50am
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At the end they list all the movies which they chose scenes from. Made me want to go and and watch the ones I haven't seen yet.
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squire
Half-elven
Oct 1 2014, 1:25am
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As much as I admire the kind of effort and love it takes to make such a video, I found it as profoundly depressing as all the other "gritty B-movie world plus symphonic score = Tolkien" fan videos I've seen.
I guess my feeling is based on the idea that if the image already exists in the film world, so it can be glommed together in a collage like this, why would we want that tired image to represent a Silmarillion film in our imaginations? To the degree that the LotR films work as filmic art, it's the degree that Jackson and company came up with images we hadn't yet seen.
Also that opening speech (Feanor's I think) doesn't work on film, at least not as read by an audiobook narrator as the credits indicate. Jackson's screenplay was not the strongest aspect of his LotR project, but he and his writers did understand that a little Tolkien goes a long way on screen, and cut the speeches by quite a lot, compared to how they appear in the books.
Again, no disrespect meant specifically to the makers of the video; my reaction is more conceptual than literal, I think.
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dormouse
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Oct 1 2014, 10:01am
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I don't know what I think of it......
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It was beautifully made and I can't help but admire the effort and thought that must have gone into it. I loved hearing Martin Shaw reading Feanor's words (that's from the unabridged audio book). It made me want to read the Sil again and some of the individual clips did make me wonder about the source films, hardly any of which I've seen. The only things I recognised were the burning ships from one of the Elizabeth I films and the water god which I think came from Narnia.
But none of the images evoked anything of the Sil for me. They weren't designed to, of course; it's hardly their fault. But Tirion? And the elves setting foot in a pristine world and the first sun rising behind them? And the elves themselves? It was all too small, too human. And watching it I'm more than ever torn between a longing to see at least some of the extraordinary magic of the Silmarillion unfold on screen, and a fear that any attempt to film it would somehow limit it. It's never likely to happen, of course, so I won't worry too much!
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Loresilme
Valinor
Oct 3 2014, 12:36am
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I thought it was heartfelt and moving too. I was also impressed, from a technical standpoint, with how the artist blended scenes from so many different films in a way that made them flow together.
If this is what this individual can envision with images that were already created for other purposes, I'd love to see what they could do if given the resources to conjure it up from scratch.
This was an excellent fan film. Thanks for sharing the link .
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sherlock
Gondor
Oct 3 2014, 10:03am
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But I wanted to se Huan.
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