Not just one book, one significantly shorter than any of the other LOTR novels.
Watch yourself a fanedit then. I recommend the M4 book edit. All of the additional stuff removed. Sticks as close to the book as possible and comes in at about 4 hours.
Yes the fan edits are great and this one is my favorite as well. As far as I’m concerned this is the definitive version and is now a part of my rewatch marathons. It’s not just a re-edit, they fix the color grading and add film grain to match LOTR’s look and some clever effects to actually change some frames. Really well done.
Any recommendations on where to watch this?
You gotta download it. Just search for it and get it on the website.
Like a seven-minute barrel ride down a river.
Or a “battle of five pages” getting turned into an entire movie.
Meanwhile the jag offs who made the dark tower movie figured squeezing 7 books into 1 movie was perfectly logical
You remember the face of your father.
You just wait until they make two movies out of a chapter
I thoroughly enjoyed the series. Sue me.
Same, I even liked the romantic subplot between that elf and one of the dwarves. Everyone else seem to hate it.
Just like the rest of the movies if you judge it in a vacuum it’s a very fun series. If you view it through the lens of the books they’re somewhat of a let down but I’m not quite sure how it could be done better given the open questions in the series and the author being thoroughly dead.
It’s a really long book though.
No it’s not…Its around 300 pages, that’s pretty standard length for most novels, might even be a little short TBH considering the genre.
It’s over 1200 pages (presumably including the appendices). I doubt even abridged versions are only 300.
You don’t really need to read any of the appendices TBH unless you really want to. They’re not really important to the actual story in the novel itself
I feel like most 300 page novels could easily be 3 movies.
I very much disagree, there’s so much stuff which works well in books that absolutely does not translate to film. Many things that take 5+ pages to do in written media is a 10sec scene in film.
Many things that take 5+ pages to do in written media is a 10sec scene in film.
Like Tolkien describing all the trees, and the rocks, and the flowers, and the blades of grass… :)
I love the universe he has created, I fucking hate his writing style.
This is about the hobbit
My ebook of The Hobbit is 217 pages. My ebook of The Fellowship of the Ring is 377 pages.
So the first book of the LOTR trilogy is 73% longer than the whole Hobbit book.
Without comparing fonts and margins, counting pages is pointless. Wordcount is what matters. (spoiler: it is among his shorter works by word count as well.)
