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Re: Denis Villeneuve's Dune

When there's an adaptation coming out and I haven't read the book, I never try to read it beforehand (or reread it, if I have read it before).... With Dune, I'm not as into the book as I was with LOTR, but having read it probably 3 or so times, I know the story well enough to detect any major chang...

Re: Denis Villeneuve's Dune

I decided I'm going to re-read it before I watch the DV movies. Just a suggestion, but I would do the the opposite. Having the book fresh in your head before seeing the films will just make the condensed parts, omissions, and changes from the book more distracting. Well, Ok... maybe :D I'm not fana...

Re: Denis Villeneuve's Dune

... I haven’t read the book and I could have done with a bit more explanation as to why things were happening. ... But again, I didn’t have a great overall experience which has probably influenced my feelings on the movie, at least until I see it again. I do want to see it again before it finishes ...

Re: Pure Star Trek Discussion

Were any of you aware that 4 episodes of TOS have been banned and are not shown? Was this ever discussed here ? (It may have been...just askin') They are Mir i, Plato's Stepchildren , Whom the Gods Destroy , and ... can't think of the 4th one. Of the three I mentioned only Miri is worth watching (im...

Re: New Weta everywhere you look!

Honestly, given that it's not that far off from what you predicted (less, actually), I figured you'd still buy it because I guess I saw $1k as your upper limit. As for the general sentiment at FoU, I'll save you the trip: it's much along the same lines - really cool-looking, but not worth what they...

Re: New Weta everywhere you look!

So Deimos, now that the price has been revealed, did you smash the pre-order button so fast and hard that you broke your steampunk keyboard? :crazy: Short answer : no Altho' my Steampunk keyboard did happen to fail the other day. The S key went totally south such that I'll have to replace the entir...

Re: New Weta everywhere you look!

Valkrist wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:48 pm
Deimos wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:47 pm
What will the price be do you think? I think at least $1K.
It's good that's what you're predicting, just so I don't have to tell you to be sitting down in five days when the price is revealed... xP
That's just a generic warning, right? Or do you already know the price but can't reveal it?

Re: New Weta everywhere you look!

Preview video of the Grey Havens... sure to send Deimos into a tailspin. :crazy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?utm_campaign=495199_Grey+Havens+Preview&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Weta+Workshop+Limited&dm_i=6XI1%2CAM3J%2C3Q7VOO%2C19SFP%2C1&v=Wp2MCicUfOw&feature=youtu.be Really like...

Re: New Weta everywhere you look!

What I really want is just an enviro of the Grey Havens sans people (nubs) horses and boats (the quay can stay). It would be an enviro like Rivendell or Minas Tirith or Orthanc... just the building(s). But that will never happen. Yet I think that's exactly what we're going to get. What makes you th...

Re: New Weta everywhere you look!

I'm going to say it might be a bit premature to pass judgment on the whole piece based on one teaser photo alone that doesn't show the entire environment. I will hold off on the 'yay' or 'nay' until I see more, but for now I remain cautiously optimistic. Honestly, I prefer the boat sailing away as ...

Re: New Weta everywhere you look!

So we are finally getting an environment of the Grey Havens. I've wanted one for so long... And this one is a total pass for me. It would have been much better to have an environment of all the ancient buildings surrounding the bay, and ship still at the quay with maybe tiny figures (including a hor...

Re: The Expanse

I have not read the books. I have read that the show follows them reasonably closely, although diverging in the minor way that adaptations often do, through combining characters, etc., and sometimes in some more major ways. However, the authors of the book series also served as writers and producer...

Re: The Expanse

I don't recall whether we've ever discussed this show, but it was a great sci-fi series. One of my favourite sci-fi series of all time, right up there with the BSG remake for me. One of my favorite series. :) I pre ordered it as soon as it was announced. The final season was a bit of a let down, bu...

Re: Asimov's Foundation novels

...Unfortunately, reading is something that seems to have fallen out of my life, but regrettably, buying books has not. I'm not sure why that is, but for a couple years now I just seem to have no drive to read. Maybe it's the fact that my job eats my brain, and when I retire I will have both more m...

Re: Asimov's Foundation novels

... One thing David Goyer has mentioned in the podcasts that is bothersome to me is that it's taking them two years to produce a season and it doesn't seem like they can shorten that any. That means that if they go the full run that they intend to, it will be 12 more years before the show finishes....

Flame of Udun Forum news

To Everyone here who is also a member of The Flame of Udun forum..... What do you think of the "New Direction" it is being forced to take? I say "forced" because Weta offloaded it for strictly monetary / financial reasons. I'm sure no one is really surprised at this... maybe only...

Re: Faramir's Sword

Anyone have Faramir's sword in hand? (except Rev of course :roll: ). Mine just showed up, but I'm waiting until tomorrow to unbox it when it's light and I can take some pics. Are you avoiding the UC thread? N2 posted a pic of his there. Nope... I thought I looked through all the possible related th...

Re: Pure Star Trek Discussion

Thoughts now.... I have yet to watch Prodigy, and have gone back and forth over whether I would. It's not that I'm antithetical to watching an animated Star Trek show or think it's pitched too young. It's actually very highly rated on Rotten Tomatoes and is actually supposed to be completely enjoya...

Re: New Weta everywhere you look!

It's a cool statue ... no doubt about it. For $699 I would have thought he came with a sword at his side ("his sword was long, his lance was keen" ) I know that is from the book and not the movie, but he still [realistically] would have carried a sword. How much was Elendil? So now they ar...

Re: The War of the Rohirrim

"...The film would not have Helm Hammerhand as the main protagonist as one would expect if they were adapting the brief short story found in Appendix A about Helm Hammerhand. Instead, the film is focusing on the unnamed daughter of Helm Hammerhand that the movie has named Hèra." oh.my.god...

Re: Expanded edition of Letters of JRR Tolkien coming in November

https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2023/06/03/116605-expanded-edition-of-the-letters-of-j-r-r-tolkien-coming-this-november/ I have the first version from the early 1980s and it was a worthy read. Many insights not only into Middle-earth, but also Tolkien as a person. Pretty sure I'll be getting it, b...

Re: Tom Bombadil

Very interesting article, had not read it before. It does bring up an interesting thought about another Tolkien character that has always defied classification, even despite being given one. I speak of course of Ungoliant, Demon of the Void . That title is very vague, and implies that the spirit th...

Re: Tom Bombadil

Oh Deimos... the random things that keep you up at night. :laugh: No, nothing recent, sorry, but may I ask why the question now? We all know the theories already out there... He's Tolkien himself He's Eru Illuvatar He's a Maia spirit that went native early on He's the living embodiment of Arda's na...

Tom Bombadil

Hardly a new topic, but..... has anyone heard (relatively recently) anything that might shed more light on who TB was , or where he came from?
Or what [else] Tolkien said about him besides what we know from his letters?

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