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Is Lord of The Rings 'Geeky' ?

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Reply 40

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by Mally-xo
haha, can't believe you haven't seen it before. its so catchy, will be playing again and again in my head when I am trying to sleep tonight now :colondollar:
also that's a pretty good video too, eagles ftw.


Ahh if only there were more girls that liked LOTR, seriously there is only one girl I know from college that actually appreciates how good LOTR is. The others just say how boring and long it is :l

Reply 41

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by hash007
Boromir... Seriously? Not gay but I'd say Faramir is better looking than his brother :holmes:

And well said, I don't really care if I get called geeky because I like Lord of the Rings, I was just asking if people did consider it Geeky.


Faramir was too whiny for me. Plus Boromir wins for being so self-sacrificial in the end.. *sighs* He even made his tears at the end look manly and butch. I would totes handle his sword. :perv:

Reply 42

It's not geeky it's just overrated.

Reply 43

Yes, absolutely, without a molecule of doubt. You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Reply 44

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by Jelephant
Come on guys, we all have a TSR account, of course it's not going to seem geeky to us :p:
Whenever it's come up in conversation for whatever reason you tend to get the vague kind of "That film was out years ago, why are you still not over it?" response. The Hobbit has been one of my favourite books since I was about 7 and my Dad read it to me at bedtime. I love Lord of the Rings, I am perfectly willing to accept its geekyness (Christ knows I do plenty of other "geeky" things too), and I couldn't care less what other people think :dontknow:


:wooo: Hi5! My favourite book is the Hobbit too, can't get enough of it and seriously cannot wait til the movie is out!!
Glad that Peter Jackson is directing it and not Guilmero Del Toro, I just hope it's not rushed and becomes tacky, wouldn't mind waiting as long as the film is as epic as the LOTR ones.
I even have a replica of the one ring and a chain, even I admit that is a little geeky :tongue:

Reply 45

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by Yellowmonkeyman
Indeed :colone: been too busy to go on TSR this week but now I have the chance to stalk :colone:

50 hour weeks at work :eek::eek: :frown:


Woohoo! Love the stalking!

:eek: 50 hours?! Why!? Thats cruel!

Pfft, forget the re-applicants thread, its all happening on the lotr thread! :tongue:

Reply 46

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by doubledot
Faramir was too whiny for me. Plus Boromir wins for being so self-sacrificial in the end.. *sighs* He even made his tears at the end look manly and butch. I would totes handle his sword. :perv:


Boromir is my least favourite character although he does redeem himself when he sacrifices himself. Beast of a man for taking 3 arrows and still fighting :yep:

Reply 47

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by silent ninja
It's not geeky it's just overrated.


Overrated? How so?!?!?!?! :eek:

Reply 48

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by hash007
Boromir is my least favourite character although he does redeem himself when he sacrifices himself. Beast of a man for taking 3 arrows and still fighting :yep:


Yeah, I'll admit that he's a total ******* for most of his screen-time, but that makes his sacrifice all the more emotional. We've got the special edition box set of the movies and I just replay that bit over and over, sitting there bawling my eyes out with my sister.

Okay, so maybe we are kind of pathetic..

Reply 49

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by JaggySnake95
'mainstream films' ?

who the **** do you think you are?


the box office revenue (adjusted for inflation) is over $4.3 billion. they rate very highly in world wide rankings. star wars is most definitely mainstream.

Reply 50

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by hash007
Boromir... Seriously? Not gay but I'd say Faramir is better looking than his brother :holmes:


Well said :ninjagirl:


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by hash007
:wooo: Hi5! My favourite book is the Hobbit too, can't get enough of it and seriously cannot wait til the movie is out!!
Glad that Peter Jackson is directing it and not Guilmero Del Toro, I just hope it's not rushed and becomes tacky, wouldn't mind waiting as long as the film is as epic as the LOTR ones.
I even have a replica of the one ring and a chain, even I admit that is a little geeky :tongue:


Totally agree, and the casting's looking pretty good too.
Haha, it's fine, I was after an evenstar pendant for a while. Had to restrain myself though :mmm:

Reply 51

Yes I think it is. But I'm a geek and I love it :smile:

Reply 52

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by hash007
Overrated? How so?!?!?!?! :eek:


Everything. I like how Kermode described part 2 as people walking and walking and walking... lol That's how it felt.

Perfectly good fantasy-action movies, but trying too hard to be epic and 'end of the world omg it's amazing get on the edge of your seat'. I didn't feel it. It was quite linear and well...despite all the fantastic special effects and action, it kinda got boring. Sorry. Each part I've seen, my reaction 2/3 way through has been "when is this thing gonna finish..." so imo it was not effectively paced. Some say the directors cut, although longer, is better paced but I don't think I want to find out. We've seen all these characters before and the story was totally unoriginal.

As I said, perfectly good films, nothing to make the all time lists (in my opinion that is).
(edited 14 years ago)

Reply 53

Who cares, it's amazing. Can't wait for the Hobbit!

Reply 54

Yeah it is. That doesn't mean it's bad. I love it! Star Wars too... and Star Trek... and Battlestar Galactica... and Firefly... and... oh god I need to stop

Reply 55

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by Jelephant
Well said :ninjagirl:




Totally agree, and the casting's looking pretty good too.
Haha, it's fine, I was after an evenstar pendant for a while. Had to restrain myself though :mmm:


You can pick them up pretty cheaply off ebay, I have to say the evenstar design looks pretty swish.
I also have the soundtrack for all three movies, probably the best soundtracks ever they just make the movies even more epic and awesome.

Reply 56

One does not simply walk into mordor.

Reply 57

Actually I think that just being a casual fan of the (amazingly brilliant) films isn't that geeky. The geekness starts to set in when you love the books and get pissed off every time you see Arwen saving Frodo and not Glorfindel. It was ****ing Glorfindel god damnit!

Reply 58

It's 2011, stereotypes and charicatures of people being 'nerds', 'geeks', 'jocks' etc are highly American for one and outdated, they belong in the world of Ferris Bueller - the 80s and throughout most of the 90s'

Whenever I hear someone just throw around the word Geek nowadays, it's annoying simply cos of how people look at it, what is simply being a 'geek' anyway? I guess there are some people around that do literally look like the stereotypical geek with big glasses, socially awkward high jeans and christmas gift jumpers etc but srsly...

yeah I went off topic, no LOTR isn't geeky, not really

Reply 59

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by lukejoshjedi
It's 2011, stereotypes and charicatures of people being 'nerds', 'geeks', 'jocks' etc are highly American for one and outdated, they belong in the world of Ferris Bueller - the 80s and throughout most of the 90s'

Whenever I hear someone just throw around the word Geek nowadays, it's annoying simply cos of how people look at it, what is simply being a 'geek' anyway? I guess there are some people around that do literally look like the stereotypical geek with big glasses, socially awkward high jeans and christmas gift jumpers etc but srsly...

yeah I went off topic, no LOTR isn't geeky, not really


How does it belong in the 80s and 90s and not now? I'd class a geek as someone who has an extreme, even obsessive interest in something "outside of the norm" like the fictional world of LOTR. I definitely meet this criteria and am a self confessed geek.

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