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cgriswald · 2019-07-14 17:19:22+00:00

There's an animated GIF on this page showing his process:

http://www.andrewdegraff.com/moviemaps/#/lord-of-the-rings/

Arathorn | karma 14398 | avg karma 6.67 · | 2022-02-08 16:15:45

Amazingly he was working a few months ago, supervising the title sequence reveal for the Amazon Lord of the Rings series: https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/02/08/112064-vfx-pione... :(

msephton | karma 2058 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2022-11-26 15:50:20

Here we go, the first and only attempt from me https://imgur.com/a/mNRNtxr

Prompt the same format as used in Jodorowsky's TRON:

production still from 1976 of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Lord of The Rings, 20 ASA 35mm --v 4 --ar 3:2

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binarydivision | karma 1 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2022-06-23 10:08:01

It was Guy Gavriel Kay (uncredited) with Christopher Tolkien. More on it here: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2014/10/guy-gavriel-kay-descr...

max-zanko | karma 2 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2022-06-28 09:37:29

Not a video but still a good read on this: https://www.tor.com/2017/08/01/tolkiens-map-and-the-messed-u...

bombcar | karma 42761 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2024-05-12 22:53:41

One of Jackson’s smartest move was hiring all the various Tolkien illustrators to work on set design mockups. Really made everything feel right for many people.

driscoll42 | karma 714 | avg karma 5.37 · | 2023-01-26 16:22:19

All the behind the scenes for the LOTR films are worth watching for wonderful details like these. It's 30+ hours, but if you're an LOTR fan, I highly recommend doing so.

mehlmao | karma 772 | avg karma 3.66 · | 2021-04-17 10:06:18

My understanding is that he directed the Hobbit movies after Guillermo del Toro was removed, and the studio wanted him to start filming immediately. Fellowship had tons of pre-production time, The Hobbit movies had virtually none.

Groxx | karma 17784 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2013-01-06 02:14:08+00:00

The only way for it to match would be for them to have filmed The Hobbit first, then copied footage. They changed actors too - obviously not following his own freakin' canon. Does that ruin it too? Should he have used the same actor, damn the results, to satisfy canon?

solarpunk | karma 411 | avg karma 2.46 · | 2023-12-27 11:16:03

yes, op asked about a video titled lotr.mkv, but with millions of tiny differences.

WalterBright | karma 71923 | avg karma 2.96 · | 2023-07-14 12:07:21

Lord of the Rings was considered unfilmable for decades. Computers made it possible.

shangxiao | karma 694 | avg karma 2.73 · | 2014-11-03 13:37:32+00:00

It's pretty much text out of the article shoved into a video with some random background images & graphics accompanied by some epic LoTR music.

thissideup | karma | avg karma · | 2015-02-02 15:43:00

If you're not Hobbit-ed out, check out the Tolkien Edit. Some cool guy edited all three films into one 4 1/2 hour epic. Big improvement.

https://tolkieneditor.wordpress.com/

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thelittleone | karma 1896 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2023-05-16 12:43:20

It's very Lord of the Rings.

bluejekyll | karma 10325 | avg karma 3.96 · | 2018-11-24 19:26:29+00:00

Yeah. It needs a Jackson like person and the entire crew from LOTR to really pull off. People with the same depth of understanding of the books.

LOTR’s art director had done amazing works before those movies, and it was neat to see that transposed to the screen.

I bet the studios look at it and don’t want to touch it based on the past performance of the movie.

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jccooper | karma 2932 | avg karma 2.89 · | 2023-07-11 21:47:54

More than just painting. It's no coincidence that characters in Lord of the Rings are styled like Peter Jackson.

Fornad | karma 18 | avg karma 18.0 · | 2018-07-31 14:34:40+00:00

Hey - project admin here. We're recreating it based on the book. Our Rivendell for example is very different to the one in the film: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/rivendell-4035048/

Apocryphon | karma 19248 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2020-01-16 20:43:22+00:00

The Hobbit films had a troubled production and were terribly rushed. Here's the first video in a small YouTube series on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTRUQ-RKfUs

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detaro | karma 40664 | avg karma 1.79 · | 2018-12-17 22:55:14+00:00

The Fellowship of the Ring as a 3500x3500 px image: https://files.morr.cc/lotr1.png - if you have a 4k screen, you only need to scroll once for the entire book. (via the authors twitter: https://twitter.com/blinry/status/1074774555707797509)

another-dave | karma 1319 | avg karma 3.49 · | 2020-01-17 09:05:33

And also drawing the final maps that appeared within The Lord of the Rings, if you've ever pored over them while reading. For me, they were an integral part of the book too, and something that also defined the fantasy genre experience and helped cement the world building of it.