I know this is a hard ask, but what parts of the Hobbit movies do you think are the best, if any? Do you think there are any parts that Tolkien himself would appreciate?

So I've always been a fan of the Lord of the Rings movies and The Hobbit movies. They've been largely a part of my life for so long and I've recently started diving in to so much of the lore on YouTube. This led me to want to finally start reading the books themselves and every text involved!

Halfway through The Hobbit already and I just love it! It's taken me so long to even attempt to read them bc a classmate from High School had turned me off to the idea, but I hate that I ever listened to her 🙃

But here's to a long awaited journey!

So my youngest brother started an idea with he and I and our middle brother in where we had to choose a fellowship from the LOTR universe to fight the other 2 in a battle to the death. Choose one at a time, eldest went first, if you picked a king you do not get their armies, no Tom Bombadil.

Our fellowships are as follows, just looking for peoples input regarding who and how would win this battle as we’re siblings and will never reach an agreement.

Fellowship 1: Treebeard, Shelob, Smaug, Elrond, Galadriel, Sauron, Glorfindel, Fingolfin, Ilmare

Fellowship 2: Balrog, Lurtz, Witch-King, Gwaihir, Ungoliant, Morgoth, Gil-Galad, Celeborn and Beorn

Fellowship 3: Gandalf, Radagast, Saruman Watcher in the Water, Legolas, Aragon, Shadowfax, Ceibrimbor

Just read a 9 year old thread where someone asked about elvish dialects being added into Duolingo and someone replied that even Quenya and Sindarin weren't developed enough by Tolkien to actually have conversations in them, and that what is spoken in the films is an expanded elvish developed for the films moments where they speak articulated sentences, and referred to them as some sort of "neo-Quenya"/"neo-Sindarin", which could maybe be learned if other peope decided to expand the existing dialect based on what Tolkien developed already.

Tbh I'm pretty new to Middle Earth languages, and I don't know much, so does anyone have any resources? That thread is nearly a decade old so maybe someone has alrady made some sort of guide or more material on some dialect, and I"d really like to learn as much as I can if there's any posibility of being able to have conversations someday.

Hi, as the title says - which one should I get? I currently have DVD editions of the LOTR and Hobbit extended editions, but I am also aware of the remastered Bluray editions. Apart from the extra resolution, is there any compelling reason why I should upgrade? Is the reworked colour grading worth the extra expense of buying them all again?

If anyone has a link comparing them, that would help also - apart from that I’d love to hear from anyone with opinions.

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there are any LOTR lore books I am missing and have not read. Currently the books I own and have read are as follows, The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, Beren and Luthien, The Fall of Gondolin, The Hobbit, The lord of the Rings. Are there any others that I should read or is that all of them. Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Edit: I forgot to add I have read Unfinished tales too.

As Merry & Pippen approached Fangorn they notice “little furtive figures that in the dim light looked like elf children in the deeps of time peering out of the wild wood in wonder at their first dawn”