<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>King Kong, based on the 1933 version. He spoke about wanting to use actors who acted in Lord of the Rings for this movie as well. Either way, it should be VERY interesting to see how this whole thing comes together. As for the Return of the King, it seems like just over night this weekend a media explosion on the scale of Nuclear warheads being dropped has begun for it; it's in the news, on the talkshows, everywhere you look around town, that's for sure.
Either way, in exactly 1 week I will be sitting in my seat and being among the very first people in North America to see the movie Wednesday December 17th at 12:00 AM.
If the Hobbit does come to screen this time, I sincerely hope Peter Jackson is directing it, and I would very much enjoy seeing familiar faces from the Lord of the Rings in that movie. Likely Peter Jackson will want to throw in some extras who didn't appear in the book since people will already be familiar with their characters; Arwen and Legolas, since part of the book does take place in Rivendell (where Arwen lives at this time) and a fairly major section in Legolas's homeland (He is the son of Thranduil, the King of the Silvan Elves; Thranduil is the son of the High King of the Silvan Elves, Oropher).
Just a note on Silvan Elves, these Elves do not travel back to the Western shores, because 16,000 years ago (From the time of Lord of the Rings) during the war of power (between the Gods and the Maia against Morgoth and the Balrogs) the elves were led from their original lands to the west and accross the sea to the distant west (which is where Arwen was being sent in Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers); however, some of the Elves decided to quit the journey and make their homes in Lorien (Galadriel's realm) and the great forest of Greenwood (later called Mirkwood, which is Legolas's homeland). These Elves were later known as the Silvan Elves.
9,000 years later (7,000 years before Lord of the RIngs), Morgoth attacked the Westlands and the Elf Kingdoms there, killed a High King of Elves and took the treasures known as the Silmarils, and returned to Middle Earth with them. Many of the Elves (the race of the Noldor) who followed this High King (Finwe) were enraged that the Gods (called the Valar) allowed this to happen, and they travelled back to Middle Earth, and made war on Morgoth. Morgoth, with servants such as Gothmog Lord of the Balrogs, and Sauron the Necromancer, managed to beat back the Noldor but then the Gods came with a large host of Elves from the West and in the War of Wrath, they defeated Morgoth. The Noldor were asked by the wizard Eonwe (MUCH MUCH more powerful than Gandalf and Saruman combined, Eonwe was the most powerful of their race) to return to the west, but the Noldor did not, and chose to stay. Over the next 6500 years during the 2nd and third ages the Noldor would periodically travel back to the West, but many chose to stay in exile.
The Silvan Elves were not a part of this race, and they had nothing to do with the distant West, so they didn't return there. During the second age, the South realm of Mirkwood was invaded and conquered by Sauron, many of the Elves fled North to Northern Mirkwood, or West across the River to Lorien, Sauron made his tower "Dol Guldur" there, and during the time of the Hobbit he dwealt there. After the Lord of the Rings, Dol Guldur was destroyed, and the Elves of Lothlorien, trevelled there and set up a new Kingdom, Lothlorien (which no longer had Galadrial's power, she was a Noldor who travelled back to the West after the war of the ring) faded.
Since I brought up Wizards, they are the form which the Maiar take when they are in Middle Earth (Maiar are lesser Gods, Sauron and the Balrogs were once Maiar too, warped by Morgoth, Morgoth was a real "God" and the most powerful one, he created the Orcs and all other original evil creatures; some like the Uruk Hai or Half Orcs were created by Saruman, the Olog Hai or Ogres, trolls who can survive in sunlight, were created by Sauron by Sauron; well not really created, but bred by them. Morgoth COULD actually create things in a way). Five of the wizards (good Maiar) travelled back to Middle Earth during the third age to do battle with evil, among them were Saruman the White (chief of the order), the two blue wizards (whose names I forget), Radigast the brown (disposed of by Saruman in the book of Lord of the Rings), and Gandalf the Grey (who was seen as the wisest by the Sindar Elf Lord Cirdan, the Sindar are related to the Silvan Elves, they are Elves who stayed behind on the great Migration, but who dwelt on the other side of the Misty Mountains, and now lived to the West of the Shire in a Kingdom called Lindon).
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<span style="background: black; color: black;">King Kong, based on the 1933 version. He spoke about wanting to use actors who acted in Lord of the Rings for this movie as well. Either way, it should be VERY interesting to see how this whole thing comes together. As for the Return of the King, it seems like just over night this weekend a media explosion on the scale of Nuclear warheads being dropped has begun for it; it's in the news, on the talkshows, everywhere you look around town, that's for sure.
Either way, in exactly 1 week I will be sitting in my seat and being among the very first people in North America to see the movie Wednesday December 17th at 12:00 AM.
If the Hobbit does come to screen this time, I sincerely hope Peter Jackson is directing it, and I would very much enjoy seeing familiar faces from the Lord of the Rings in that movie. Likely Peter Jackson will want to throw in some extras who didn't appear in the book since people will already be familiar with their characters; Arwen and Legolas, since part of the book does take place in Rivendell (where Arwen lives at this time) and a fairly major section in Legolas's homeland (He is the son of Thranduil, the King of the Silvan Elves; Thranduil is the son of the High King of the Silvan Elves, Oropher).
Just a note on Silvan Elves, these Elves do not travel back to the Western shores, because 16,000 years ago (From the time of Lord of the Rings) during the war of power (between the Gods and the Maia against Morgoth and the Balrogs) the elves were led from their original lands to the west and accross the sea to the distant west (which is where Arwen was being sent in Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers); however, some of the Elves decided to quit the journey and make their homes in Lorien (Galadriel's realm) and the great forest of Greenwood (later called Mirkwood, which is Legolas's homeland). These Elves were later known as the Silvan Elves.
9,000 years later (7,000 years before Lord of the RIngs), Morgoth attacked the Westlands and the Elf Kingdoms there, killed a High King of Elves and took the treasures known as the Silmarils, and returned to Middle Earth with them. Many of the Elves (the race of the Noldor) who followed this High King (Finwe) were enraged that the Gods (called the Valar) allowed this to happen, and they travelled back to Middle Earth, and made war on Morgoth. Morgoth, with servants such as Gothmog Lord of the Balrogs, and Sauron the Necromancer, managed to beat back the Noldor but then the Gods came with a large host of Elves from the West and in the War of Wrath, they defeated Morgoth. The Noldor were asked by the wizard Eonwe (MUCH MUCH more powerful than Gandalf and Saruman combined, Eonwe was the most powerful of their race) to return to the west, but the Noldor did not, and chose to stay. Over the next 6500 years during the 2nd and third ages the Noldor would periodically travel back to the West, but many chose to stay in exile.
The Silvan Elves were not a part of this race, and they had nothing to do with the distant West, so they didn't return there. During the second age, the South realm of Mirkwood was invaded and conquered by Sauron, many of the Elves fled North to Northern Mirkwood, or West across the River to Lorien, Sauron made his tower "Dol Guldur" there, and during the time of the Hobbit he dwealt there. After the Lord of the Rings, Dol Guldur was destroyed, and the Elves of Lothlorien, trevelled there and set up a new Kingdom, Lothlorien (which no longer had Galadrial's power, she was a Noldor who travelled back to the West after the war of the ring) faded.
Since I brought up Wizards, they are the form which the Maiar take when they are in Middle Earth (Maiar are lesser Gods, Sauron and the Balrogs were once Maiar too, warped by Morgoth, Morgoth was a real "God" and the most powerful one, he created the Orcs and all other original evil creatures; some like the Uruk Hai or Half Orcs were created by Saruman, the Olog Hai or Ogres, trolls who can survive in sunlight, were created by Sauron by Sauron; well not really created, but bred by them. Morgoth COULD actually create things in a way). Five of the wizards (good Maiar) travelled back to Middle Earth during the third age to do battle with evil, among them were Saruman the White (chief of the order), the two blue wizards (whose names I forget), Radigast the brown (disposed of by Saruman in the book of Lord of the Rings), and Gandalf the Grey (who was seen as the wisest by the Sindar Elf Lord Cirdan, the Sindar are related to the Silvan Elves, they are Elves who stayed behind on the great Migration, but who dwelt on the other side of the Misty Mountains, and now lived to the West of the Shire in a Kingdom called Lindon).</span></div>
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