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Poll: The Lord of the Rings vs. The Hobbit vs. The Rings of Power

Which is the one to rule them all?

  • Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy

  • Peter Jackson's The Hobbit movie trilogy

  • Amazon's The Rings of Power series


Results are only viewable after voting.
I agree. @Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl will undoubtedly disagree. I wonder how many others (if any) will also disagree.

I feel it will be a sort of landslide... :p

That's what I'm dreading, but I've cast my vote, and you know what it is.

I prefer the story that showcases the Dwarves and Elves in their last displays of might and prowess and humanity cowering in the background, rather than the fantasy elements being pushed to the sidelines and humans taking centre stage. I certainly don't deny that Lord of the Rings is good, I still thoroughly enjoy it, but give me the Hobbit any day if I had to choose between the two.

What's more, my vote ensures that the ranking is properly correct, with Rings of Power firmly at the bottom :D
 
Interesting to see what will happen, although it can be quite monotone

disregard the books themselves

How dare you !? :P

Unquestionably LOTR.

Discuss?! What is there to discuss?!?! Right @Imrahil ?

Game, set and match in my opinion.

All good and well, but I like both LOTR and the Hobbit over what I have seen and read about the Rings of Power. (Yes I still haven't seen an episode of it :eek:)
Besides nostalgia for the LOTR, I so like it more for the pace of the story and the effort of special effects + craftmanship (weapons, armor, prosthetics, etc.) over visual effects and CGI.

I do prefer the orcs, goblins and Uruk-hai in the LOTR over the ones in the Hobbit.

I prefer the story that showcases the Dwarves and Elves in their last displays of might and prowess and humanity cowering in the background, rather than the fantasy elements being pushed to the sidelines and humans taking centre stage.

I do agree with you on the LOTR leaning towards the human centered side, but that is because the books are following those characters and events as well.
I like the Hobbit for the dwarfs and the interactions between them and the elves as well.
But watching the Hobbit will never make me as happy as watching the LOTR.

Grrr, !mrahil
 
This "poll" made me think of a television commercial in the 1990s.


Not that the Hobbit trilogy was rancid, but it was clearly not as a good as the LOTR trilogy.

That is my opinion of Incredibles 2. It's a decent movie. It's just that Incredibles 1 was near perfect.

For the most part, the parts I didn't like from the Peter Jackson LOTR were mostly on the extended cut, not the theatrical version.

Aargon should not have killed the Mouth of Sauron. That is out of character. The booby trap that dumped skulls on Aragon's trio was pretty tacky.

In my opinion, the Hobbit should have a been a two-parter not a three-parter. Nothing in the Hobbit movies was bad but a lot of it was unnecessary.

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It doesn't really matter which one of these is the best looking. All three are impossibly out of my league.

Liv Tyler's voice gives her an unfair advantage in general attractiveness in my opinion. Cate Blanchet gets bonus points for being the only one of the three that was never divorced. Evangeline Lily gets bonus points for being based and speaking against Trudeau.

While Evangeline Lily did a great job acting and the costume/makeup/cinematography crew did a good job pushing a natural 10 to an 11, the character of Tauriel did not really enhance the story in any way nor did Legolas' inclusion.

Radagast the Brown was brilliantly portrayed, but again, his inclusion did not enhance the story.

Tauriel and Radagast should have been extended edition features.

I would trim Smaug's villain monologues by 25% and Gandalf and the other characters exposition by 25% and remove one out of four of the dwarf prat falls.

I would cut the panoramic walking in New Zealand shots down by 20%.
 
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I'm a little saddened the Bakshi animated Lord of the Rings isn't being considered. Whilst certainly not as amazing as PJ's trilogy, that film (which condensed and covered Fellowship and Two Towers) had some very nice touches which the PJ films lacked.

But yeah...in this choice it's PJ LotR trilogy.
 
disregard the books themselves

How dare you !? :p

Only because that would introduce a confounding variable into our results. It would be just as valid to compare the Hobbit book to the LOTR books, but not to intermix them with the movies. In my opinion, the LOTR movies are a better adaptation of their books than the Hobbit movies compared with their book. So without the "no book" distinction, the results would be muddied.
 
with Rings of Power firmly at the bottom

over what I have seen and read about the Rings of Power. (Yes I still haven't seen an episode of it :eek:)

If I'm to be honest, I only included ROP for the satisfaction of watching it end up in last place. Hopefully without a single vote, but the last time I created the Star Wars equivalent of this poll, the Disney Sequel Trilogy did somehow manage to garner a vote. While I believe The Rings of Power to be much more universally hated, I'm not holding my breath.
 
In my opinion, the Hobbit should have a been a two-parter not a three-parter.
The hobbit should not have been a trilogy.
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Nothing in the Hobbit movies was bad
  • the river barrel scene was extremely poorly executed. Over the top, goofy and tonally mismatched.
  • Legolas running up falling stones :vomit:
  • Alfrid Lickspittle
  • Escaping Goblin Town
  • overreliance on CGI made the Hobbit trilogy feel fake as compared to LOTR with its practical effects, costumes/makeup, etc.
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