Lord of the Rings

I'm a relatively earnest appreciater of Tolkien's Hobbit fables. And it seems so are many, many thousands of others.
An original, but still an homage film is being released online this afternoon/evening, called The Search for Gollum.

http://www.dailymotion.com/huntforgollum

http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8022623.stm

Any Tolkien fans on here?

I never saw this at the time. I love Tolkien's work, although I hated the only film I watched of the big-budget nonsense--it was telling that the above, fairly lo-fi, fan-made project was much better.

Read LOTR way too many times as an unhappy youth. The Silmarillion too. Yes, that bad.
Currently my daughter is reading The Hobbit, she has to read out loud for 10 mins a night and am quite enjoying it.

You're not a proper fan until you've read the 12-volume 'History of Middle-earth' and 'History of the Lord of the Rings' cover-to-cover.

More seriously, you might enjoy Christopher Tolkien's re-casting of the classic Silmarillion tales: The Children of Húrin, Beren and Luthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. (The latter is probably the weakest edition of the three, as the story really wasn't finished, but still worthwhile.)

Too busy making these to read books at the moment....

The films weren't that bad I thought. Frodo, Gandalf, Gollum and Ringwraiths were all excellent.

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Excellent. Are you getting many orders?

I beg to differ on the films, but that's the last thing I'm going to say about that. I'd rather talk about Tolkien.

Had a couple of orders off here and one from a friend, but otherwise no.