#Lord of the Rings awards

[sillylotrpolls]

Bonus internet points will be awarded to anyone who actually tries this exercise before voting.

Assume you need to get the spelling at least somewhat close, and if a character has multiple names, only one counts. Also, if a character doesn't have a canonical name, I'm sorry, but "that guy's wife" doesn't count.

For reference, if you can name the 9 members of the Fellowship, the eponymous Hobbit and his 13 dwarf buddies, 3 prominent women, and the guy who runs the Rivendell B&B, that's 27 characters right there. And you probably also know the name of a dragon.

For further reference, Tolkien Gateway has 637 (!!) pages dedicated to Third Age characters. (Don't click that link until you've voted, of course)

Edit: Your humble pollmaker gave this a try, and got as far as 73 before deciding she was too tired to keep trying to remember dwarf and Silm names. If you also want to share (and don't mind people being incredulous at your having forgot ____), pastebin allows you to paste text and share it for free. :)

[seanastinhopeunquenchable]

Sean Astin and Elijah Wood at the SAG Awards. 

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012, Peter Jackson)

06/07/2024

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Title

The Pinnacles - Exploring the Paths of the Dead

The Pinnacles on the North Island of New Zealand are just amazing and fascinate with remarkable rock formations. One might also know this place from "Lord of the Rings" as the "Paths to the Dead". I think this is a perfect title for this stunning panorama. The image is showing a person (/me) with a lamp exploring this surreal place during the night with the Milky Way expanding over the scenery.

Sebastian Knoll 

Austria

Neutral Density Photography Awards 2023

[buffyfan145]

Surprised I haven't seen this over here yet but Morfydd Clark was at the BAFTAs yesterday and actually teased more about season 2 of "Rings of Power"!!! 😀 She talked about how there's "lots of villains" this season and then said "And I love villains". LOL 😏 Cate Blanchett was also there too and seeing a lot of posts of pics of both Galadriels. But also there was a moment where Morfydd was pictured close to Cillian Murphy with Fellowship of Fans joking it was Galadriel with her uncle as Cillian's been a popular fancast for Fëanor for years. LOL

[parkercore-69]

everyone who watches Lord of the Rings and claims Frodo was whiny has clearly never been on a DofE expedition

[lordoftheringsmusical]

The Lord of the Rings has been nominated for 4 WhatsOnStage Awards!

Creative categories:

Best Sound Design - Adam Fisher

Best Musical Direction or Supervision - Mark Aspinall and Sioned Saunders

Show categories:

Best Musical Revival - The Lord of the Rings

Best Regional Production - The Lord of the Rings

VOTE HERE!

Voting closes on 11 January 2024.

[katjaschmitt]

"Suddenly Boromir’s breath caught, reminding him of his aching chest. Relief, pride, affection overwhelmed him. They had won! Pippin lay sleeping curled about Boromir’s horn, his chin resting on its rim, its curved end about his waist, and his arm tucked over it." ['Rapid Peril' by Carolyn Golledge. 2008]

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey’s selfie game was firing on all cylinders at the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar Winners

The Return of the King / Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn (King Elessar)

Year: 2003

Designers: Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor

I think everybody knows that the awards for this movie are kind of unofficial acknowledgements of the whole trilogy retroactively, but I did want to feature something from the actual third movie. There aren't too many new costumes in it, and most of the women's costumes have been covered in other posts. But the armorers outdid themselves with Aragorn's coronation armor. The detail really shows up on the screen.

The breastplate shows the symbol of the seven stars over the white tree in flower. At the top appears to be Tolkien's own design for the crown of Gondor (see below), which was just a repurposed war helmet. The actual crown that Aragorn wears is much nicer looking, but I'm a bit surprised they deviated from the book on this. Usually they tried hard to follow the book descriptions even when it might look silly--for example, their interpretation of the "wings of seabirds" on the helmets of the tower guard. (I personally don't think they got that right, but still, they weren't afraid of looking goofy.)

[unknown-terrain]

For a show that had a 30% completion rate it's first season, Amazon really shouldn't of have bothered releasing fake spoilers, I doubt many people are even checking for S2 leaks anyways as most have already checked out after S1. First Amazon lies and inflates their viewership numbers (also see Citadel) and now this lol. If the show had been a worldwide phenomenon like Game of Thrones was back in the day then I understand but what Amazon is pulling here with this flop show is pure clownery. I bet season two's viewership will fall even more.

[thebestestwinner]

The Best Best Picture Tournament: The Final Round

Is everyone ready?

It's time for the final showdown!

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013, Peter Jackson)

02/07/2024

[marisatomay]

okay i’m also mad that nope wasn’t nominated for like anything at the oscars as evidenced by by post about being mad that was being reblogged here but let’s not come for the one nominee that literally invented a whole new camera and new filming techniques to capture actors at supersonic flight at imax quality from the inside of a cockpit. you don’t have to like it to respect the amount of effort and ingenuity that went into the production.

[buffyfan145]

Congrats to Bear McCreary as he won 3 awards at the International Film Music Critics Awards including Composer of the Year for all the work he did in TV, movies and video games in 2022!!! :D The other 2 awards were for Score of the Year and Best Original Score for TV for “Rings of Power”.

[planeswalker-umbral]

Welcome to the 2023 Atog Awards!

Every year creature types are created and creature types that go unused. So what are the rules for what counts for these calculations?

The creature type has to have at least 1 Black-bordered card that either is, produces a token of, or mentions the creature type.

Reprints don't count. Only new cards being produced.

Creature types of older cards are based off of their current creature types as of Lost Caverns of Ixalan. (There are creature types like Thalakos that have been errata'd onto older cards but have technically never been printed on a physical card)

Changelings / Mistform Ultimus obviously don't count.

Arena exclusive cards do not count.

Silver bordered / Acorn Stamps / Play test cards don't count.

Types that have gone 5-9 years without print are Bronze (Born of the Gods - Guilds of Ravnica)

Types that have gone 10-14 years without print are Silver (Conflux- Theros)

Types that have gone 15-19 years without print are Gold (Darksteel - Shards of Alara)

Types that have gone 20+ years are Cadaverrific. (Mirrodin and older)

So what are our new types?

Time Lord

Doctor

Dalek

Cyberman

Capybara

Llama

Snail

Mite

Detective

Scientist

Bronze

Cockatrice (2014)

Lammasu (2014)

Processor (2015)

Scion (2016)

Survivor (2018)

Homarid (2018)

Silver

Surrakar (2010)

Blinkmoth (2011)

Sable (2013)

Gold

Bringer (2004)

Slith (2004)

Pincher (2004)

Zubera (2005)

Atog (2006)

Aurochs (2006)

Camarid (2006)

Nephilim (2006)

Triskelevite (2006)

Spike (2006)

Graveborn (2006)

Nomad (2007)

Rigger (2007)

Noggle (2008)

Cadaverrific

Tetravite (1994)

Wombat (1994)

Oyster (1995)

Serf (1995)

Caribou (1995)

Ferret (1995)

Orb (1996)

Deserter (1996)

Prism (1996)

Splinter (1996)

Soltari (1998)

Thalakos (1998)

Licid (1998)

Monger (1999)

Nightstalker (2000)

Volver (2001)

Flagbearer (2001)

Mystic (2001)

Pheldagrif (2001)

Mongoose (2001)

Metathran (2001)

Orgg (2002)

Pentavite (2003)

Broke free

Aetherborn (2017)

Nautilus (2015)

Rebel (2007)

Spellshaper (2007)