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If Peter Jackson wants to make more LOTR films, then why not do the war in the north? Wouldn’t they already have the rights since it was mentioned in the LOTR books and appendicies?

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This is a damn good suggestion. Yeah, they have the rights since it's in the appendices, and they have already established the relevant locations in past movies.
The studios probably won't sign off, because A) no hobbits :lol:, and B) no main characters from the original trilogy would be trotted back out (like old Legolas inserted into The Hobbit, and now Aragorn and Gandalf in this Hunt for Gollum flick. Which apparently has hobbits :rolleyes:).

But honestly, you could make the end of The Hunt for Gollum show his escape, which would lead into the war in the North. And that could be a nice and tidy trilogy:

1: pre-conflict, then the attack by the Easterlings on Dale and Erebor. Dol Guldur launches an attack north into The Woodland Realm, and the first attack on Lorien. You end that with the fall of Dale and retreat into Erebor, bloody (and forest fire) fighting in the Woodland Realm, and Lorien defeats the first attack (due to Galadriel's magic fences around the wood). Radagast (not in the books, but also not NOT in the books) shows up in Mirkwood to help out and advise Thranduil. Maybe he (a fricking Istari focused on nature, after all) deals with the spiders.

2: Siege of Erebor; 2nd attack on Lorien which also fails. War in Mirkwood against the orcs and spiders etc continues. Radagast could advise Thranduil to push on Dol Guldur instead of helping Erebor after winning ("they're safe in their mountain").

3: Woodland elves move on Dol Guldur (Radagast could help coordinate them meeting up with Celeborn's forces). Radagast contacts the Eagles and sends them south to Mordor. Lorien defeats the 3rd attack, and Celeborn keeps rolling straight towards Dol Guldur instead of stopping at the borders of Lorien. He and Thranduil link up, and take Dol Guldur. Galadriel destroys the fortress. Erebor breaks the siege and routs the Easterlings.
Galadriel, Celeborn and Thranduil talk briefly about the war in the South, with Thranduil saying he's going to help his neighbors up in Erebor and Dale, please send my regards to my son. Galadriel and Celeborn get ready to head south to Gondor. Radagast goes north with Thranduil.

This would overlay well with the LotR trilogy, restore some dignity to Radagast (and explain his absence), tie in the Eagles connection etc. You'd only have Thranduil, Galadriel, Celeborn, and Dain (and Radagast?) from prior movies. I think Lee Pace can still do Thranduil. Cate Blanchett is getting old, but looks decent enough that maybe with makeup, some de-aging, and limited screen time, you can get away with her still... save her for big moments. Don't think anyone would notice if you recast Celeborn and Dain, or Radagast either for that matter.

A movie theater can make it better, but it has to be a good, top-tier theater, and the movie and theater need to be "tuned together", whatever and however that's done.

Case in point- I once would have said superhero blockbusters should be seen in the theater, to better get the sensory experience.

I went and saw Shazam opening night at an AMC, on their "big" screen. I think it's called the Dolby cinema screen. Over off O'Neal.
I also saw Dr Strange, Multiverse of Madness on a "premium" screen, I forget which one.

Both times, I came away unimpressed and disappointed with the sensory experience... the colors were off on Shazam. The sound was hollow on MoM. I get that these weren't great movies, but they should have had some visual/audio pop to them. I've since watched them at home in my home theater setup, both were better experiences then.

Top Gun Maverick and Dune were both fantastic in the theater, and again both fantastic at home. Those, I guess you could say, were "better" at the theater, but not to an extreme extent.

So, I do have a nice Yamaha AV receiver with 7x2 Dolby Atmos set up, and more importantly, I took the time to lay out and tune the speakers and subwoofer correctly to my room; it's not "just" using a soundbar. And my speakers are older, but I like having the wired sound (and the wires are now tucked so that they aren't in the way). I don't have the best TV, but the picture is ok and 4k, and the speakers are irrelevant since I use the surround instead.

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For PJ to "do this right" he'd probably have to go Mel Gibson and finance it himself and I just don't think he has the juice to do that AND buy the rights.

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Hadn't thought about Mel Gibson... that's a good idea. Gibson's a good Catholic, as was Tolkien. There are a number of themes that run very deep in Tolkien's works that mesh with Catholicism, to the point that there are multiple commentaries and discussions on religious sites.

Gibson would be the type of guy to recognize and maintain those themes.
Couple that with his eye to film large battles and epic landscapes, and that would be a winner.

Came across this on Nerd of the Rings
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PJ in a recent interview about Hunt For Gollum, talking about how they're currently limited to the LOTR appendices for additional movies, and he says that Christopher Tolkien was opposed to any movies. But he says the next generation (now that Christopher has died) is more open to it, and he says they're been negotiating things, and state "The Silmarillion" by name.

That's huge. It goes beyond whether you want them made right now, fearing they would "woke them up". That's always been irrelevant, because the answer had been "no", and it was just not going to happen.

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Total Saints career?

Eric Martin.

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Yeah, Hilliard is one of my all-time favorites as a back, but Martin had the bigger career.

Looking him up, he's still top 4 alltime in Saints history in receiving stats.
Receptions- 3rd behind Colston and Thomas.
TDs-4th behind Horn, Graham, Colston
Yards- 2nd behind Colston
100 yd catch games- 4th behind Colston, Horn, Thomas.

Almost seemed like Milam was in the way... if Yamin were to have caught that, he trucks Milam

I'm not in the "fire Jay" camp, and I fully appreciate that he's won 2 national titles the past 3 seasons. That does, and should, buy him a good bit of slack.

But I'd say he's used a lot of that slack up. LSU is rightfully considered the baseball equivalent of a Duke or UConn basketball program, where expectations are to be good every year, and you can have multiple title runs. We have the history, the financial resources, the fan support (many LSU fans consider baseball to be the #2 overall sport here, ahead of basketball). We are paying the coach top dollar, and have been aggressive in the portal (as well as regular recruiting).

This isn't an "off year", where we finish 500 in the SEC and end up a 2 seed somewhere. This is a cratering, on par with the football program collapsing in 2020, but without the covid excuse some use to justify that one.

Spare me the "we lost a lot of players" crap; other schools lose players too. Arkansas, etc don't get to keep players any longer than we do, simply because they didn't win a title. Yet somehow, they seem to keep putting competitive teams on the field every season.
"But Arkansas hasn't won a natty",... that's right. We have. We should therefore have better recruiting and support. We should be a better program than them, consistently.

I say Jay's seat should be warm. Another season like this next year, don't make a regional 2 yrs in a row, and I'm fine with looking around to see if there's someone else out there we want.

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That’s cute. What they do in the SWAC against the bottom-feeders of D1 has little in common with what we need to do to have MLB talent and face MLB talent every week.

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I'd venture to say there's a shite-ton of talent in Central America and the Caribbean. If you google it, about a quarter of the players in MLB come from outside the US.

Why are you opposed to looking at guys from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela etc? We might not get the top tier (we usually don't with high school players either), but the next tier is largely untapped and pretty damn good. Or, is it because a SWAC team is doing it, we're "too good" to stoop to that level?
Me, I don't care where the guys come from, as long as they can play. It's way past the point of pretending these guys worry about classes.

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We are about to have a college roster full of grown Euro pros

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I get the strategy but it’s a new one but makes a ton of sense. Waiting for baseball to start adopting this model as well in certain ways.

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I have to think we're going to tap into what Bethune Cookman is doing. They're SWAC, and per Google, they have 11 players from other countries (Caribbean and Central America). When they beat LSU in a midweek game, seemed like everyone's last name was Hispanic. They also beat Florida in a midweek game too.

LSU has to have way more resources than they do; I think they just happened to get in on it early.
The standard of living in a lot of those countries is way low, and "a little" money can go a long way there. And those countries love baseball and produce some great players.