It’s been a few years since I last read LOTR, and even more years since I read The Unfinished Tales and The Silmarillion, so I can’t say that I agree or disagree fully with this list, but they’re points that only true Tolkien fans would obsess over. Many MANY years ago, I could have argued them in-depth, as I read every one of the Appendices to The Return of the King and about everything else Tolkien wrote.
Good stuff, though. I just wish the LOTR movies hadn’t butchered the story as much as they did. They had the potential, but what idiots thought that they could improve on Tolkien by changing some of the story? Seriously? Hell no. Tolkien wrote the ultimate story, they should have stayed the hell away from it and done a faithful reproduction like they did with Harry Potter.
Originally shared by Ninja On Rye
“I still don’t think everyone understands how big Tolkien envisioned him. When Ancalagon was killed and fell from the sky, his bulk broke a volcanic mountain range, which set off a chain reaction that destroyed the northwestern portion of Middle-earth.” – on Ancalagon the Black, winged dragon.
It’s been a few years since I read the Silmarillion, and it’s a dense book, so I have to admit that I hadn’t grasped the size of some of these entities. Can you imagine these on film?
That image of Morgoth is towering, but Ungoliant is enormous. Seeing her at Imax draining the two trees would be spectacular.
Some cool, if small artwork of the aforementioned entities of the Silmarillion, as well as Gothmog and Glaurung. I definitely need to do a re-read of the Silmarillion.
http://www.tickld.com/x/jaw/5-tolkien-villains-too-intense-for-the-big-screen