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I've just finished #TheTwoTowers.
Found it a much lighter read than #TheFellowshipOfTheRing, largely due to the split timeline thing it's got going on.
It also benefits from being the middle of a story; there's little time to stop and ponder, and significantly more page turning intrigue.
5/5.
Also, that's my 10th completed book of 2026. My target was 11. Should beat that without issue.
The Music of Lord of the Rings
It was Australia Day in January of 2003 that we left the Undying Western Lands (Australia) for Middle Earth (New Zealand). Accompanying us on the journey was the music of Howard Shore to the first two movies of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
For the next week we passed through Elven lands to the music of Many Meetings and Lothlorien, admired the bare grey rock before an icy glacier to Foundations of Stone, small towns to the music of Concerning Hobbits. It was Shore’s music that added the fantasy to the landscape and, like in the movies, transformed it into an adventure of emotion and wonder.
Has it really only been twenty-five years since the first Lord of the Rings movie was released into cinemas across the world? It feels like Howard Shore’s incredible score has been with forever. Perhaps it is the ring’s fault. It does make us feel, well, stretched.
After the release of The Return of the King in December of 2003, Shore compiled his music as a concert symphony and went on tour. We saw him conduct the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2004 with his symphony. Fourteen years ago it was The Two Towers in Concert. Earlier this year it was Anna Lapwood playing part of her Lord of the Rings Suite on the pipe organ at the Opera House. Of course there was also the tragically and hilariously awful The Music of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Rings of Power.
Now it is the turn of the Art of the Score team to present The Music of Lord of the Rings at the Sydney Opera House in conjunction with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and the Sydney Children’s Choir, along with soloist Kate Miller-Heidke at the Sydney Opera House. Conducting the orchestra is Nicholas Buc, a member of the Art of the Score team along with presenters Andrew Pogson and Professor Dan Golding.
As with the trilogy, the concert begins with the foreboding music of The Prophecy, with the Sydney Philharmonia Choir singing Elvish and warning of The One Ring.
Prior to the concert I spent a couple of days watching 11 hours and 22 minutes of the Extended Editions of the trilogy. A large proportion of that is scored. Shore composed over 80 leitmotifs, or individual themes for people, places and things, for the trilogy, manipulating them, combining them, to create an extraordinary body of music that no one concert can encompass. This is despite the threats of Andrew Pogson and Dan Golding as they attempt to explain, with the help of conductor Buc, the nature of the music.
So unlike previous Lord of the Rings concerts, I entered this one without the expectation that I would hear specific pieces and could enjoy it without disappointment should one beloved track be missing. There was no disappointment to be had. Despite just having listened to the entire soundtrack, what I heard far surpassed what I had listened to before.
The first half of the concert is devoted to the music of The Fellowship of the Ring, including the magnificent escape from Moria. After the interval the other movies, The Two Towers and The Return of the King are covered in less detail, but the chosen highlights are superb. Pogson and Golding explain what is going on at each point and a narrow screen above the orchestra displays the song titles and some of the lyrics in Elvish and other tongues. The visual look better than any of their previous concerts, it is a very nice touch.
The performances by the orchestra and both choirs was absolutely phenomenal, and conductor Buc’s timing impeccable. There was an incredible tonal richness in hearing this music live. From the second track where I had never realised that guitars were part of Concerning Hobbits, to the cimbalom of Gollum and the amazing distressed piano, played with a chain mail glove wrapped with chain. The homeliness of the flute in the shire and watching concertmaster Harry Bennetts’ fingers dance across his violin. The chanting of the male and female choir and the ethereal singing of the children. A special mention goes out to young soprano Scout LaMotta for her beautiful solo performances.
The trilogy’s original score features vocal performances from a number of different soloists, including Enya, Emilíana Torrini and Annie Lennox. Obviously they are not going to be available for this concert, so instead we have the rather well known Kate Miller-Heidke who comes from both a classical and pop background. Every voice is unique and it is unfair to expect Miller-Heidke to replicate the other performers. I think she does a good job for most of the concert, relying more on her fine classical soprano skills, though sometimes the timing seems perhaps a little off.
At the very end of the concert is Into the West, originally performed by Annie Lennox. The song, and the preceding The Grey Havens, mean a lot to me, the release of the soundtrack coming at a point in my life I was very sad and upset, something it took me 20 years to get over. The songs of the trilogy have a simplicity about them that suggests the ancient age of the setting. Unfortunately, with Into the West, Miller-Heidke inserts modern vocal ornamentation, (or melisma as I believe it is called), like so many of the contestants on the singing programs like the one she judges. It grates, and not until the orchestra returns does my heart settle and find peace.
Although the One Ring is destroyed and Frodo has set sail for the Grey Havens and the music is over, there is still a bit of fun to had with a rather long piece of cutlery and the concert ends with a very loud round of applause. Both B and I have really enjoyed this concert. I thought the last Art of the Score concert on James Horner’s music was their best, but I think this may have exceeded even that. I can’t wait to see what they come up with next!
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#TheLordOfTheRings : #TheFellowshipOfTheRing (2001)
A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
#ElijahWood #AndySerkis duke it out.
News: Steven Colbert + LOTR = Please Send the Asteroid Now.
It’s been a hot minute since I last wrote about some new, woke Hollywood flop coming out to destroy our last remaining braincells…longer still since I wrote regarding any new Lord of the Rings adaptations. Most of that has been since I’ve been preoccupied with other things or just didn’t care as much about some of the stuff coming out. However, it recently came to my attention that not only is Peter Jackson back to write a new LOTR movie, but he has hired none other than Steven Colbert to write it.
Steven Colbert…the dude who singlehandedly nuked his own show. That’s the guy who Peter Jackson is trusting with a new Lord of the Rings adaptation.
Had this been several years ago, this already would not have boded well for the Lord of the Rings franchise because while Steven Colbert is a Tolkien superfan, that does not mean that he has the writing skills needed to a write a script that properly adapts Tolkien’s work. His skill in keeping his personal politics out of it would also be of major concern.
But add on the fact that we’re currently in 2026 and have already seen what hell Amazon wrought on Tolkien’s work with Rings of Power and already, die-hard Tolkien fans are skeptical of any attempt to adapt Tolkien’s work. Additionally, after the 2024 release of The War of the Rohirrim, which had Philipa Boyens, Fran Walsh, and Peter Jackson working on it, and we have even more right to be skeptical. Why? Because the entire movie was an animated bait-and-switch as instead of focusing on Helm Hammerhand, it focused on his daughter, who Tolkien deemed so unimportant that he didn’t even give her a name.
From this, we can already see that this is going to be a perfect storm to possibly mess up Tolkien’s work more than Amazon did. But don’t worry. This is only going to get worse since I haven’t even told you about what the story is expected to be. Per Variety:
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema confirmed that Colbert will co-write “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past” alongside screenwriter Philippa Boyens and Colbert’s son Peter McGee, with Jackson producing. The film, which draws from six chapters of “The Fellowship of the Ring” that Jackson never adapted, is set 14 years after the passing of Frodo, following Sam, Merry and Pippin as they retrace the first steps of their journey while Sam’s daughter Elanor uncovers a secret that nearly cost them everything.
I think we all know who the real protagonist of the movie is going to be. I’ll give you a hint. It won’t be any of the guys.
Even worse for this movie is that fact that the story is going to be based off of five chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring, particularly chapters 3-8. The issue with this, however, is that already, there have been parts of those chapters that were adapted into the original LOTR movies, though many of the events in the chapters were cut out for the sake of time. Thus, how they plan to properly adapt those scenes, I’m not sure.
Additionally, how they plan to adapt characters such as Tom Bombadil is questionable, especially since we’ve already seen what Amazon did to Tom. Are they going to keep him the jolly guy from the books or are they going to make him more serious? Either way, it doesn’t work because while Colbert has said he wants to keep his adaptation accurate to the books, he also wants to keep it accurate to the movies. The movies, however, didn’t really have room for longer moments of humor. They kept a very serious tone throughout, so a book accurate Tom Bombadil wouldn’t really fit a “movie-accurate” adaptation. On that same note, a more serious Tom Bombadil wouldn’t fit the book because he’s a fun character in the book.
From there, we also run into a similar issue as the other Lord of the Rings prequel movie that’s suspected to arrive this year: the age of the cast.
Sure, while having everything happen years after the events of the Lord of the Rings movies can make up for this somewhat, in scenes that go back to the original adventure, there will be problems given the fact that the original cast is 20 years older now. Unless they do a heck of a job with the de-aging software, I don’t think it’s going to look good.
Overall, this entire thing is ultimately a desperate attempt to keep the rights to The Lord of the Rings before they expire, but without any of the foresight, creativity, or dedication to Tolkien’s work that characterized the Lord of the Rings movies.
Until next time,
M.J.
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The Fellowship of the Ring (PS2)
Full name: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Video Game: For the PlayStation 2: Collectible Card Inside.
https://chasingdings.com/2026/02/17/the-fellowship-of-the-ring-ps2/
Never gets old, this trilogy. Everything about it is just perfection ❤️🧙🏻♂️
The Lord of the Rings to Terminator 2 -10 of the most terrifying moments in film
(Credit: Alamy) (Credit: Alamy)The Lord of the Rings to Terminator 2: 10 of the most terrifying moments in film
2 days ago, By BBC Features team
As people around the world mark Halloween, our editors pick the frightening scenes that have truly stayed with them.
(Credit: Universal Pictures)The diner sequence in Mulholland Drive (2001)
David Lynch’s film was named the best film of the 21st Century in a BBC critics’ poll. It’s also one of the scariest films of the 21st Century, largely because of a five-minute scene that shouldn’t be scary at all. The deceptively simple sequence consists of nothing more than two friends in a Los Angeles diner talking about a dream one of them had, and then walking outside into the broad daylight – and yet, thanks to Lynch’s mastery of pacing and atmosphere, it’s almost unbearable. The classic jump scare is a factor, of course, but it’s the dread that builds beforehand that really chills the blood, as the protagonist realises that he is trapped in his own worst nightmare. And, like anyone in a nightmare, he has no control over what happens next… (Nicholas Barber)
(Credit: Alamy)Sadako goes in for the kill in Ringu (1998)
Scarier than many more bombastic horrors, Ringu is a quiet but deeply uneasy film. Set in 1990s Japan, it tells the tale of Sadako, a girl murdered for her supernatural powers, whose vengeful spirit is trapped inside a cursed videotape. The climax comes when a lead character, Ryuji, is killed by the curse. He is alone when the tape spontaneously begins to play on his television, showing Sadako crawling towards the front of the screen. You can’t help but recoil. Jaws-esque music builds and she jerks unnaturally forwards. Her iconic long black hair covers all but one manic eye – which is looking directly at you. Then she climbs right out of the TV. The ghost pierces the fourth wall and breaks into the real world. At least, that’s what it feels like. Ringu was revolutionary in its depiction of viral media and its dangers – and promises to haunt those who watch it forever. (Katherine Latham)
(Credit: New Line Cinema)Bilbo goes feral in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
There are plenty of scary moments in Peter Jackson’s thrilling Lord of the Rings trilogy, but Shelob, Orcs and Ringwraiths aside, there’s one blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scary moment to rule them all. In the series’ first instalment, an injured Frodo (Elijah Wood) is reunited in a cosy Rivendell setting with Bilbo Baggins (played by the twinkly Ian Holm), who briefly loses his senses in the presence of the Ring. Using a mixture of animatronics, makeup and digital effects, Jackson (who had a background in horror) transforms Holm’s face momentarily into a grotesque vision of greed and desire. Acting as a chilling harbinger of doomy events to come, it’s the unexpected nature of this genuine jump scare that made it so terrifying – to this day, I still have to watch it through my fingers. (Rebecca Laurence)
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Lord of the Rings to Terminator 2: 10 of the most terrifying moments in film
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24 years old and it still stands up incredibly well. A true cinema classic trilogy.
Today, I received the Lord of the Rings books that I ordered from Rebuy. Now it's finally time to call it a day — enough programming! I can start reading!
#TheLordOfTheRings #TLOTR #TheFellowshipOfTheRing #reading #rebuy
Rocznice:
»Mija 5 lat od śmierci Sir Iana Holma«
19 czerwca 2020 r. w wieku 88 lat zmarł brytyjski aktor filmowy i teatralny Sir Ian Holm.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/rocznice/mija-5-lat-od-smierci-sir-iana-holma/
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I just noticed a very interesting parallel in #teamfortress2 animation Expiration Date. This clip from 11:55 to 12:05 looks very much like #lordoftherings #TheFellowshipOfTheRing where Frodo gets grabbed by the watcher: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxUa9VTLgdDTB8BP68qx_2vvgoePK5PNGa?si=Jy5cov9DzoQPS402
When your kids finally feel ready to watch The Fellowship of the Ring with you 🥹🥰
#thelordoftherings #thefellowshipofthering #familytime #SundayFunday
Stasera segnalo... 😁
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Su Italia1 cosa ve lo dico a fare. 😆
The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): Tolkien’s epic begins! Stunning visuals, iconic characters, and an unforgettable journey. Favorite scene?
#LOTR #FantasyMovies #TheFellowshipOfTheRing
70 ans et pas une ride ! 29 Juillet 1954, la petite suite à The Hobbit tant attendue 😉
Avec un prologue et premier chapitre culte.
#Tolkien #TheFellowshipOfTheRing
„I wish it need not have happened in my time,“ said Frodo.— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
„So do I,“ said Gandalf, „and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.“
@orionkidder @gracefrench When I read #TheLordOfTheRings: #TheFellowshipOfTheRing, I noticed something in the scene, where Frodo gets Gandalf's letter, he left at The Prancing Pony with Barliman Butterbur, concerning Aragorn: The letter hasn't been mentioned before and the matter around Strider was already mostly solved. So it feels like #Tolkien added the letter afterward.
Arwen is as tough as they come.
As short as this scene is, I think it's one of the best action beats in the trilogy.
#TheLordOfTheRings trilogy is the best movie trilogy of all time. I will die on this hill.
#LOTR #TheFellowshipOfTheRing #TheTwoTowers #TheReturnOfTheKing
Watching #TheRingsOfPower has reminded me of how much I truly love #TheLordOfTheRings.
#TheLordOfTheRings #TheFellowShipOfTheRing premiered 21 years ago today.
Aragorn : "They were once men. Great kings of men. Then Sauron the Deceiver gave to them nine rings of power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question, one by one falling into darkness. Now they are slaves to his will. They are the Nazgul, Ringwraiths, neither living nor dead. At all times they feel the presence of the Ring, drawn to the power of the One. They will never stop hunting you"