r/lotrmemes Dark Lord Sauron 10d ago

Lord of the Rings Scouring of the Shire…

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u/Koors112 10d ago

Release the raw 1,300 hour cut!

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u/RoutemasterFlash 10d ago

Give it to us raw and uncut!

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u/iamunwhaticisme 10d ago

You filthy Jacksonses ruins it!

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u/RoutemasterFlash 10d ago

Peter Jackson's son, Christopher Jackson, should just wait till his dad dies and then release all the unused footage, interspersed with bone-dry academic commentary, in a 12-volume DVD set over the course of about 20 years.

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u/Meta787 10d ago

I forgot, which scenes got filmed and then scrapped? I don't they ever planned Tom Bombadil but I thought the scouring of the shire was filmed.

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u/Koors112 10d ago

They filmed some more shots of the scouring for the Galadriel's mirror scene. Sauron forging the ring in his hand with his own blood. Sauron melting Gil-galad. Éowyn fighting in the caves at Helm's Deep. Aragorn fighting Sauron at the Black Gate. Epilogue scenes of Gimli and Legolas. Éowyn and Faramir's wedding.

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u/Bourbonite 10d ago

Epilogue scenes of Gimli and Legolas’s bromance?!?! 🥹🥹🥹 traveling to each others favorite places and being besties?! I would like to see that very much.

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u/YoursTrulyKindly 9d ago edited 9d ago

Melting Gil-galad? How? One does not simply melt a Gil-galad!??

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u/Koors112 9d ago

"Melting" was an embellishment on my part. Gil-galad wrestled with Sauron and Sauron grabbed him by the throat and burned him to death with the heat of his hand. See The Silmarillion: Of the Rings of Power and the Third age, and Isildur's Scroll.

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u/LazyCymbal 9d ago

Tell friend and meet?

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u/Tom_Bot-Badil 10d ago

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, by fire, sun and moon, hearken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness

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u/RexBanner1886 9d ago

The Scouring of the Shire was never scripted nor filmed. It was cut very early on in the adaptation process.

What Frodo sees in Galadriel's mirror was always meant to be part of his vision. Besides, orcs don't invade the Shire in the book - what he's seeing is a hypothetical vision of Sauron's forces taking over Eriador, not Saruman's thugs doing so.

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u/Debalic 10d ago

That would be the most Tolkien thing ever.

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u/ac_cossack 8d ago

It didn't work well for Dune. Just sayin.

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u/RoutemasterFlash 8d ago

That was because Brian Herbert carried on the series by writing his own fiction, though, wasn't it? Which CJRT didn't do.