Born of Hope…
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November 5, 2009 at 9:32 am #435
I thought it could be a good idea to give the link to this wonderful project :
http://www.bornofhope.com/This is a fan-made movie (like Hunt for Gollum) that should be released in December… a very great and ambitious project
It’s about Aragorn parents Arathorn, Gilraen… and well…how Aragorn was born and ended up in Rivendell
You can see trailers on the siteI hope you like it
November 5, 2009 at 9:32 am #7683I thought it could be a good idea to give the link to this wonderful project :
http://www.bornofhope.com/This is a fan-made movie (like Hunt for Gollum) that should be released in December… a very great and ambitious project
It’s about Aragorn parents Arathorn, Gilraen… and well…how Aragorn was born and ended up in Rivendell
You can see trailers on the siteI hope you like it
November 5, 2009 at 9:54 am #7684I have already seen this … great thing! This will be an information link to all kids who still have not read the books….
November 5, 2009 at 11:00 am #7685I have already seen this, too. Good idea to place the story. Good idea to give us this link, Master Gildor!
November 8, 2009 at 7:46 am #7735Christope, this looks like it will be a great fan-film. I see a similarity between these fan works and ICE’s MERP system, which was licensed by TE, of course; and gave rise to our beloved Mithrils. Still, it is a creative expression based upon Tolkien’s works, if not exactly written by him.
November 8, 2009 at 3:38 pm #7741Indeed. Some of their “historical” choices seem a bit questionable, but I’ll still be downloading it.
Be fun to stat up the characters too. Might do a sequel to the Hunt for Gollum thing I helped out on.
November 8, 2009 at 5:18 pm #7742a prequel I’d say, in Born of Hope, Aragorn is – at best – two years old
November 24, 2009 at 3:29 pm #7981I’ve been watching this project slowly develop over the past umpteen months. It looks as if it will be very good.
December 2, 2009 at 4:27 pm #8191Watched the first 22 minutes of it last night.
Definitely weaker than The Hunt for Gollum – there’s more characters and threads of plot running around, and the acting is weaker. It’s still well done. But it certainly makes one appreciate the movies more. The movie actors didn’t merely sell their roles with clever dialogue and wonderful emoting, they also did it with body language. When Viggo Mortensen or Sean Bean lift a sword, they do it with the casual manner of one long used to carrying such a thing – and with a craftsman’s awareness of his tool. When Aragorn crouches down to find something on the trail, he does so with an economy of movement that suggests that he is well used to doing so.
The actors here fail to do these sort of things, probably without noticing that they were failing. Thing should have been workshopped a lot more.
The other issue is the writing. There is a narrator, and there is dialogue. Oddly, despite what the critics say, Tolkien never really over-wrote. He’d never use 10 words when 8 would do. (He wasn’t Hemmingway, but who is?). Some of the narration and dialogue is just too wordy.
Still, it looks great. And they made a no-budget movie look a million dollars. Jackson should hire these people.
Gavin
June 5, 2010 at 1:27 pm #10271Finally got round to watching it the other day, and found it sufficiently entertaining to hold my attention to the end, though iot has to be said it dawdles along rather slowely in a couple of places. One or two of the actors were particularly good in their roles, most notably Arathorn, Gliraen and the Ranger lady. The Troll, however, should never have got through his audition.
Though both are admirable productions, bearing in mind the amateur status of most of the people involved, on balance I think that ‘The Hunt for Gollum’ is the better of the two.
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