Its very boring, the films are too long and i have originally no idea how some people can have a yearly lotr marathon.
Did you ever read it?
I heard the full audio book of the first book
Did you also hate that?
I heard the audio book and watched the first hour of the film, thats wat i was talking abt, 30 hrs wastet it just was boring
Damn, that’s too bad!
A lot of people recommendet the hobbit, ill maybe try that
I can’t see you liking that if you didn’t like LOTR. At this point I’d quit while you’re ahead 😂
Yeah, i see your point, i guess my stupid teenager brain with a 2 second attention spann is to stupid for lotr and hobbit
Well that is an unpopular opinion. I think I might watch the extended editions this weekend now that you brought it up. Cheers!
Dude ROTK has like a whole hour of movie after the final battle lmao at some point it’s ridiculous
Totally true to the book in that regard, shit refused to end on any kind of high note.
The ring gets destroyed about halfway through the last book
The rest of the book is almost equally divided between Aragorn getting inaugurated, going back to Rivendale, the scouring of the shire, life in the shire afterwards, Frodo Bilbo and the elves going to the undying lands, and then the appendices lol
The ring is destroyed like halfway through the last book. Tolkien was really into worldbuilding, and he refused to let the ring be the end of it. He had to ramble for another half a book about the fallout afterwards. Aragon getting crowned king, Frodo getting banished to the Shadow Realm, some more politicking in Rivendell, and I think we hear a little bit about the elves too?
I’m also not a fan of the series, FWIW. I read the books. Gave them a fair chance. And fucking hated every minute of it, because I kept expecting it to get better. Because everyone loses their shit over it, so it has to get good eventually, right? I’m a massive fantasy nerd, but LOTR is just a slog.
He did the same thing with The Hobbit. Smaug dies like three quarters of the way through the book, and he doesn’t even get killed by one of the characters that we’ve been following for the entire fucking book. The main characters just sort of wait for him to leave the lair, then rummage through his pile of gold once he’s gone.
Don’t forget the part where they get back to the Shire and they fight off… just some dudes. Over some tobacco. They’ve fought orks, goblins, a giant spider and saved the fucking world. But their arc can’t be complete without fighting a couple guys in the woods I guess.
That’s how the books actually go tbf.
Exactly. Being close to pissing myself in the cinema due to the incessant false summit endings soured that film a bit. Rewatching the extended version at home was amazing though.
That’s my abiding memory of watching it at the cinema as well. God I needed a piss so much.
fades to black Oh that seems like kindof a weird place to end, just stuck on a rock in the lava field.
fades to black Oh okay, so it was just a little transition. Yeah makes sense for aragorn to be king.
fades to black Alright, this is getting weird. Sam and Frodo are back in the Shire and Sam’s going to ask this girl out now?
fades to black Jesus, I get it okay. Frodo is headed off to the undying lands, cool.
Thats the whole point of the sublemmy
Dunking on LotR, calling it a “sublemmy”, I see you and I respect your commitment to unpopularity.
Mhh yeah, i see you point
Oh, I know.
*applauds harder
Thank you friend.
Have to agree. I’m gen X and most of my gen loves 'em. I’ve always personally loved fantasy & science fiction. But both times I tried struggling my way through LotR it was like reading a dry, bland history textbook written my an academic in love with his own navel.
I also love Peter Jackson, but give me Brain Dead over any of the LotR films. They’re pretty, but BORING.
100% agree, saw one of them in the cinema with a friend in my 20’s and actually fell asleep which I have never done before or since.
Now this is unpopular.
May god have mercy on your soul. LotR memes was one of the first communities to migrate over.
While I recognise the enormous impact and world building Tolkien created, he really couldn’t write for shit. The LOTR books are largely boring with small amounts of interesting stuff/action inbetween. Probably should have stuck to short for stuff like The Hobbit.
It’s not about the action, it’s about the world he created. Look at Dune, for example, that book is objectively boring, but the world Frank Herbert created is what makes it so fascinating
Dune is boring? Will, that’s a fresh perspective
It’s kind of boring. I’ve tried reading it and gave up. Now I’m 8 hours into the audiobook and it’s been like 6 days since I’ve put it on. I love the world of dune, but the story is very complex and expository. I wouldn’t describe Dune as a thrilling page turner, more of a space drama.
Personally, I love several pages on the specifics of how to rehabilitate a desert planet.
Compared to how they would get made even today, 20 years later, they’re incredibly well-made and somewhat faithful to the material, shield-surfing, dwarf-tossing, no musical numbers, and no Tom Bombadil aside. The actors involved knew they were working on something special and gave it their all, sometimes even their toe. They stand as the pinnacle of fantasy adventure movies, nothing made before or since can even hold a candle to them, except from maybe the 1983 epic masterpiece, Krull.
#metoo
I’m disappointed to see that there are posts on this community that are half-assed. I mean, come on, I see this kind of quality on another platform in another community of the same name.
You can do better…
Sorry, it was just smth i didnt think much about, i just wrote it because its an unpopular opinion, idk i just thought that would fit and it would be cool if you could add a “casual” tag to your post so that people dont have to high hopes
Damn what kind of posts do you consider “high quality” then? I’m actually curious bc this post feels pretty on-par to me.
I don’t like you.
Ok :(
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It’s been my experience that LOTR is something you either like or dislike.
I only heard praise for it
I think that among film buffs that is true. Normies though don’t all like it. My brother hates it just because it’s fantasy. I know others who don’t like it because it’s long.
I like fantasie
Are we back to ‘only nerds like fantasy’ again? Lord of the Rings was popular with just about everyone when it came out in theaters - shows were packed.
Then there’s Game of Thrones…
Yeah, that’s where I am at. Between LOTR, Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, fantasy is incredibly mainstream now.
Nothing screams middle-upper class, mid-30s suburban housewife more than fantasy-romance novels.
It’s been my experience this is true of literally everything.
Most things actually have some grey areas. It may be just kind of meh and not necessarily a dislike.
Give the extended versions a shot!!!
Maybe if im very bored ill give it a shot
Why would you recommend the extended editions to somebody who already thinks they’re too long?
You only like the extended editions because you saw the regular versions first, fell in love with them, and wanted more.
calm down, satan.
I agree. The first little bit is okay, but then it’s two and a half hours of D-minor synthesizer droning and a lot of panicked faces and screaming. Tedious and exhausting for nothing.
Feh. Bah. The books are great, though.
I listened to the first book as a 30 hr audio book, was very boring and i watched like the first hour of the first film
Man, all the comments in here about the “boring” songs and poetry … do yourself a favour and don’t ever even consider reading works like, oh, I don’t know, practically anything by Goethe, Schiller, or Shakespeare. Or from the other side of the world, the novel A Dream of Red Mansions. Or that Indian epic Mahabharata.
They’re not for short attention spans.
I had a friend at school who loved the book. I tried a few times to get into it and thought it was dull as anything so just passed on it after 200 pages or so.
Fast forward to the films and I actually enjoyed a lot of the first film but the 2nd and 3rd films I found pretty endless. Then later at university people wanted to watch the extended DVDs or whatever and I found better things to be doing those nights after the first time.
Everyone has different reasons for liking or disliking things, but for me my main dislike is the lack of genuine humour in the stories. It is relentlessly serious. I don’t mean I expect jokes everywhere but it’s particularly po-faced, the book especially. I tried reading it again a few years ago to see if I’d been too harsh on it but still couldn’t make it to the end.
So what you’re saying is that you don’t like one of the greatest fantasy epics of all time, the original that spawned the whole genre, because it’s not a good comedy?
That’s like complaining that your stove doesn’t have an 8k display 🤦
I think it’s more the fact that it doesn’t have any sort of levity, it’s full on all the time
That’s what epic fantasy is supposed to mainly do.
Also, that’s not even true. The characters of Pippin, Merry and Gimli, for example, are mostly comic relief throughout the movies and there’s a lot in the books too.
Just because the genre isn’t for you or the instances of levity fell flat for you doesn’t mean you have to make shit up 🤦
The characters of Pippin, Merry and Gimli, for example, are mostly comic relief throughout the movies
Fair
No, I’m saying that it takes itself incredibly seriously which to me - this is my own personal opinion - comes over as a bit pretentious.
Tolkien was attempting to build his own equivalent of an Anglo-Saxon epic from scratch and I get that . I even admire it. But I empathize with his friend C S Lewis (perhaps apocryphal) response when show the first draft “for Christ sake John, not more fucking elves…”
Like I say, I don’t expect Gandalf to be slipping on a banana peel while Frodo and Sam do a ‘Who’s on first?’ routine.
But for me there’s no change in pace, mood or objective to sustain my interest for the length of the whole work, which is probably why I generally more or less get on with the first book and enjoy the first film; but get less interested and eventually numbed to the rest of the story because it feels like endless servings of more of the same. To me it just comes over like, this happens, this happens, this happens then good triumphs like you knew it would.
Gollum is the only character that truly seems to go beyond a basic 'i am here to do this in the narrative ’ and is mercurial and interesting to watch/read
