What's your favorite LOTR monster/creature?
01-08-04, 07:14 PM
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I like those giant slow rhinocauros-looking creatures we saw in ROTK for only three seconds. My favorite, though, would have to be Gwahir and the rest of the eagles, them fighting with the fell beasts. I was looking forward to that scene from the very beginning and it looked awesome.
01-08-04, 07:24 PM
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To be honest, my favorite creature had to be the Uruk-Hai. Those dudes were massive. And not just like big-massive, I'm talking, The Rock-massive. I swear, when that leader of the first band of Uruks yelled "Find the Half-Ling!" I peed just a little bit.
01-08-04, 10:15 PM
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Gollum. Hard to think of him as a "creature", though. He just seems so real.
Second choice: The Cave Troll. The amount of characterization they put into that big lummox was just amazing.
Second choice: The Cave Troll. The amount of characterization they put into that big lummox was just amazing.
01-09-04, 11:50 AM
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They are all great, I really liked the Naz-gul(sp?), especially after discovering their roar was created mostly from a donkey's screech, and the whoosh of their tail from a cheese grater spun around in the air. Any flying dragon creature made from donkeys & kitchen appliances is OK by me. 
01-09-04, 01:09 PM
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Originally posted by woofman
They are all great, I really liked the Naz-gul(sp?), especially after discovering their roar was created mostly from a donkey's screech, and the whoosh of their tail from a cheese grater spun around in the air. Any flying dragon creature made from donkeys & kitchen appliances is OK by me.
They are all great, I really liked the Naz-gul(sp?), especially after discovering their roar was created mostly from a donkey's screech, and the whoosh of their tail from a cheese grater spun around in the air. Any flying dragon creature made from donkeys & kitchen appliances is OK by me.
01-09-04, 04:16 PM
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Going with The Balrog here. Utterly massive, took my breath away when I first saw Fellowship in the theater.
Second would be the monster in the water outside of Moria.
Second would be the monster in the water outside of Moria.
01-10-04, 07:01 PM
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The Balrog was great. Almost makes me wish they would make a movie on Morgoth and his army of Balrogs. Dozens of Balrogs fighting Ungoliant, the mother of Shelob, to save Morgoth from the spider's webs would look great on screen.
01-10-04, 07:40 PM
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The Balrog was great. Almost makes me wish they would make a movie on Morgoth and his army of Balrogs. Dozens of Balrogs fighting Ungoliant, the mother of Shelob, to save Morgoth from the spider's webs would look great on screen.
The Balrog was great. Almost makes me wish they would make a movie on Morgoth and his army of Balrogs. Dozens of Balrogs fighting Ungoliant, the mother of Shelob, to save Morgoth from the spider's webs would look great on screen.
I was wondering what would ever top the battle of pellinor fields.
Now I know.
Shame it will probably never be made, though.
01-10-04, 08:55 PM
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Originally posted by Jason
oh. my. god.
I was wondering what would ever top the battle of pellinor fields.
Now I know.
Shame it will probably never be made, though.
oh. my. god.
I was wondering what would ever top the battle of pellinor fields.
Now I know.
Shame it will probably never be made, though.
Here is a brief description of what the battle looks like from the Sil:
swiftly they (the Balrogs) arose, and passing over Hithlum they came to Lammoth as a tempest of fire. With their whips of flame they smote asunder the webs of Ungoliant
01-14-04, 08:46 AM
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The Nazgul were made to look too weak and easily defeatable in the movie. Any time they meet Aragorn or Faramir or Arwen, they got the crap kicked out of them. The only time they did any damage was when they stabbed Frodo. In the war, it was their flying creatures that did the damage, not them.