On Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:09:03 -0400, The True Melissa
<thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

They're doing Tom Bombadil, apparently. None of that will be there. Tom >Bombadil was left out of the trilogy, so it should be possible to do in
the same continuity.

That was probably THE biggest omission from the movie.

I read somewhere that they also shot the death of Saruman (1 wizard vs
300 very angry bow armed hobbits) but also cut it from the movie
version of TLOTR. Has that sequence (said to be 10-20 minutes long)
ever been released? I saw that in first run but never again since.

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On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:49:43 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

And it does so regardless of the quality of the film: regardless of
budget, regardless of cast, regardless of screenplay, regardless of
director, regardless of how received.

My main disappointment with the movie was the glossing over of the
Riders of Rohan charging to the rescue which given the number of times Hollywood did scenes like that in Westerns the LOTR producers should
have been able to shoot with their eyes closed.

I mean jeez, that scene SHOULD have been LOTR 100 (not even 101) given
the number of time Holywood's done "Save the day Cavalry charges".

I expected the scene at the Dark Tower with Frodo and Gollum at the
Crack of Doom since it's not the kind of scene any other movie had
done - like INSIDE a volcano's cone? (My first response when I heard
from a friend that a shoot of LOTR was planned was to ask how they
planned on shooting the Crack of Doom theme "so many ways to shoot
that scene, most of them bad!")

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The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <10q8h1g$jdni$2@dont-email.me>, did
weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

We really are living in bizarro world at this point, with the news that
Stephen Colbert is set to write a sequel to Peter Jackson's Lord of the
Rings trilogy.

https://youtu.be/uMYo4g65CMg?si=CaCy8IDxQypxrAZ1

I can't abide the Critical Drinker, but if this is true, that's nuts.
The world doesn't need more Lord of the Rings, but if they must milk it, surely a master of fantasy would be a better choice.

Are you saying that Stephen Colbert is not a master of fantasy?

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The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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