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HOBBITFAN13
Menegroth
Nov 17 2015, 12:35pm
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Favourite Middle-earth film
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Since probably everyone now has seen the Hobbit BOFA EE. What is your favorite Middle Earth film and why?
Is the Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Battle of the Five Armies
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord o the Rings: The Two Towers
The Return of the King
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nusilver
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Nov 17 2015, 1:07pm
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Since probably everyone now has seen the Hobbit BOFA EE. What is your favorite Middle Earth film and why?
Is the Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Battle of the Five Armies
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord o the Rings: The Two Towers
The Return of the King
What? No, very few people here have actually seen the EE, because people here like their traditional physical products... and it's only just now being released here in the U.S., with other territories to follow!
All that said, here's my list:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Return of the King
The Two Towers/Desolation of Smaug (Towers just barely edges out Smaug for me)
An Unexpected Journey
Battle of the Five Armies
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." - Samwise
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Withywindle
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Nov 17 2015, 2:54pm
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1. The Two Towers 
2. The Fellowship of the Ring
3. An Unexpected Journey 
4. The Return of the KIng 
5. The Battle of the Five Armies 
6. The Desolation of Smaug
"'... The Withywindle valley is said to be queerest part of the whole wood- the centre from which all the queerness comes, as it were.'" -Merry, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter VI, The Old Forest
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ThorinsNemesis
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Nov 17 2015, 2:56pm
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1.The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug EE (I can guarantee this one will always be my favorite  )
2.The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey EE
3.The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies EE
4.The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers EE (dunno why, but this is my favorite from the Lord of the Rings trilogy)
5.The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring EE
6.The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King EE
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LSF
Mithlond
Nov 17 2015, 3:32pm
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All these are the EEs, since I don't bother with the TEs after seeing it in theater.
AUJ
DOS
BOTFA
TT
ROTK
FOTR
Though I love all the Hobbit films. AUJ has the most dwarves and the most fun. FOTR is last place because it takes a very long time to get set up. It works for it and I wouldn't say I would change it, but the first 45 minutes feel very long. It doesn't really pick up for me until the Fellowship forms.
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NecromancerRising
Hithlum
Nov 17 2015, 3:51pm
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1)The Two Towers: The most complete film of the series with the introduction of the most interesting characters in the whole Middle Earth series.
2)The Fellowship of the Ring/The Desolation of Smaug: The definition of the great quest/fantasy films
3)The Battle of the Five Armies: An exciting fantasy war film
4)The Return of the King: The most ambitious and epic film of the series which has some of the best but some of the worst overall.
5)An Unexpected Journey: A solid beginning of a series with pacing issues and sometimes goofy tone. The exquisite unexpected party, Out of the Frying Pan, Riddles in the Dark sequences made it a worthy addition in the series.
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life"
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HOBBITFAN13
Menegroth
Nov 17 2015, 7:20pm
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1. The Two Towers (best of all middle earth films personally)
2. The Fellowship of the Ring (the one that started all of this)
3. The Battle of the Five Armies (personally the best of the hobbit trilogy) (great performances from the cast and a satisfying ending ,not a boring battle )
4. The Return of the King (a masterpiece but way too long)
5. An Unexpected Journey (great introduction but a little too much humor)
6. Desolation of Smaug (no offense but a heartless film, that has no story you just go to place, to place, to place , , and we knew what the cliffhanger was because of 30 minutes of the Erebor sequence)
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TheOnlyOneAroundWithAnySense
Nargothrond
Nov 17 2015, 7:31pm
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1. The Return of the King
2. The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Battle of the Five Armies
4 & 5. The Desolation of Smaug & The Two Towers
6. An Unexpected Journey
All some of the best cinema can offer.
[To a corpse] "You're looking so well, darling, you really are. They've done a marvelous job. I don't know what sort of cream they've put on you down at the morgue, but I want some."
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
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OldestDaughter
Mithlond
Nov 17 2015, 9:01pm
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I love listing favorites!!
Mine:
The Two Towers
The Desolation of Smaug
The Return of the King
The Fellowship of the Ring/An Unexpected Journey(Both are so good!)
The Battle of the Five Armies(I haven't seen the EE of it yet, even though I just got it in the mail today! Yipee!)
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Intergalactic Lawman
Nargothrond
Nov 18 2015, 10:28am
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Favourite of the Middle Earth films?
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1. Fellowship
2. Two Towers
3. Return of the King
The rest don't exist.
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makingstarwars
Nevrast
Nov 18 2015, 11:34am
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evolution from TEs to EEs only has a slight effect
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ROTK
FOTR
TTT
DOS
before armies EE
journey/armies
After armies EE
armies
Journey
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Arannir
Doriath
Nov 18 2015, 2:06pm
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Fellowship of the Ring (A+)
Two Towers (A)
Return of the King (A)
Unexpected Journey (B-)
Desolation of Smaug (C+)
Battle of the Five Armies (C-)
"I am afraid it is only too likely to be true what you say about the critics and the public. I am dreading the publication for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at." J.R.R. Tolkien
We all have our hearts and minds one way or another invested in these books and movies. So we all mind and should show the necessary respect.
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miko
Ossiriand
Nov 18 2015, 4:40pm
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I was going to try to make a list, but realized I can't, any more than I could put the books in a particular order as "my favorite." But I recently watched all six films, and "The Two Towers" stands out as perhaps the best adaptation of difficult material.
I was thinking about the way LotR was filmed, with everything happening "real time," and while I can't come up with a workable alternative to that, one of the joys of reading LotR for the first time is the sense you gradually get that there are Serious Things happening. It's suspenseful and intriguing.
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Smaug the iron
Mithlond
Nov 18 2015, 8:09pm
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The Two Towers
An Unexpected Journey
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Desolation of Smaug
The Return of the king
The battle of the Five Armies
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Scourge of the Stoors
Ossiriand
Nov 18 2015, 8:28pm
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1. Return of the King
2. Fellowship
3. Two Towers
4. An Unexpected Journey
5. Battle of the Five Armies
6. Desolation of Smaug
Yeah... not a big fan of middle chapters it looks like. Even Empire Strikes Back, which is pretty clearly a more maturely-crafted film than either A New Hope or Return of the Jedi, is my least favorite of the original Star Wars... and Attack of the Clones is my least favorite of the sequels. And Lost World is my least favorite Jurassic Park movie.
I need to watch the Godfather trilogy or Alien 3 to break this chain I guess.
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TheOnlyOneAroundWithAnySense
Nargothrond
Nov 18 2015, 10:17pm
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'The Godfather Part III' will break this cycle.
[To a corpse] "You're looking so well, darling, you really are. They've done a marvelous job. I don't know what sort of cream they've put on you down at the morgue, but I want some."
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
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