Man. This is turning into some serious soap opera shit. Let's call a spade a spade and call a guy who posts rumors a guy that posts rumors. that's what they are-rumors. therefore i will take everything he says as "well i heard from a friend who heard from a friend that..." it may be true, it may not be. he's not claiming truth, therefore we shouldn't take it as such, or as him passing it along as truth. i will take his rumors into consideration the same way that i will take rumors from someone not claiming ties with Blizzard. afterall, isn't that what these forums are about any way? specualting and anticipating? that's what he's offering to us. Speculation and hearsay. That is all folks.
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I am so, so New Orleans, like 1825 Tulane.
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that's what i'm saying. you claim nothing, therefore people shouldn't get their dicks in a knot over nothing. simple as that. now i'll take all the hope you got. i'm like a straight hope fiend.
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I am so, so New Orleans, like 1825 Tulane.
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wtf the movies are the best masterpieces of all time. the books rival all literary works put together, but the movies are undisputed champions of all time.
see i'm an english major, so literature in any form is appealing- but books will always win in my heart. the movies, great as they are, aren't as good as the books. simple as that. they were very long and very true to the books. i appreciated that, but it's impossible to touch upon every detail, every intricacy, every little morsel of literary goodness evident in a book, when you're making a screen adaptation. If they had- tey would each be 5-6 hours long and would have done horribly in the box office due to their length. So what they did with the movies was the absolute best they could. And that is awesome. but i find it hard to seperate my biased opinions from my movie-going experience. when compared to the books... well you know what i mean.
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i read the trilogy once every year, and i know what you mean. everytime i take my time with reading every word, ever bit and piece, and ive even read all the appendixes for the lore of before and after the story. its great.
however, the movies are the best and translate the book in a way i dont think they will ever be bested. Lord of the Rings has affected american culture so much, it goes hand in hand with Braveheart and other great movies like that.
read the silmarillion. if you don't know what it is, it's to middle earth what the bible is to crazy born again christians.
and worded very similarly (so and so begat so and so who begat so and so...) and it tells the history of middle earth as well as mythology referenced in the lord of the rings.
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the greatest thing about his stories is that you can apply them to real life. take sam for instance. he delivers a memorable quote that i think applies to all, including diablo 3!!!
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam? Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
the italicized is what we're going through, and the bolded part is what diablo 3 announced will be.
screw watered eyes, ive cried. when gandalf falls the first time i saw it, the expression on frodo's face is nothing short of how you feel, and makes it even harder.
when theoden cries at his sons grave, it hurts as well.
when (in the Return of the King extended version) eomer finds eowyn lying on the floor its heartbreaking, even if i already know she'll be ok from the book.
I cried when Saw was with Frodo on the rock at the end of RotK. As well as when Frodo left for the Gray Havens. Also when Sam was with his wife and kids.
ok guys, lets get a hold of ourselves. lots of men crying in one thread is not good, unless diablo 3 is announced or i die. and not even if i die should everyone cry.
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however, the movies are the best and translate the book in a way i dont think they will ever be bested. Lord of the Rings has affected american culture so much, it goes hand in hand with Braveheart and other great movies like that.
read the silmarillion. if you don't know what it is, it's to middle earth what the bible is to crazy born again christians.
and worded very similarly (so and so begat so and so who begat so and so...) and it tells the history of middle earth as well as mythology referenced in the lord of the rings.
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Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
the italicized is what we're going through, and the bolded part is what diablo 3 announced will be.
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when theoden cries at his sons grave, it hurts as well.
when (in the Return of the King extended version) eomer finds eowyn lying on the floor its heartbreaking, even if i already know she'll be ok from the book.
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