Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 07, 2023

The Beatles once wanted to make and star in a Lord of the Rings adaptation in he 60s, but J R R Tolkien himself vetoed it.

“Christopher is Tolkien’s literary executor and has done the most work on Tolkien’s unpublished works. He is famously unhappy with the movies. Before they even came out, he issued a statement saying that he felt The Lord of the Rings was not suitable for transformation to a visual dramatic form.” per Google

How wrong he was as for me it was a great movie from a great book.

Personally, I didn’t really loathe Jackson’s self-aggrandizing corruptions until Battle of Five Armies…but the seed was planted with the absence of Tom Bombadil and grew from there.

Yeah, not sure there would have been a serious Beatles adaptation after seeing A Hard Day’s Night and Help. Maybe it would have been called Lord of the Ringos.

Australia does have lots of rugged terrain but is better known for its kangaroos, koalas, and deadly spiders.

The only Lord of the Rings movie star to have actually met JRR Tolkien was Christopher Lee. Of course, Lee was long in the tooth by the time of the movie trilogy.

Maybe Christopher Tolkien felt they weren’t faithful to his father’s works? Either that or his father probably tells them / show it off too much to Christopher and because of that, he’s probably sick of it.

I googled pictures from the top of Mt. Disappointment and they’re still beautiful, what are the expectations for mountain views anyway?

I wonder what Christopher Tolkien thought about the movie adaptation of “The Hobbit”. I was initially excited when I first heard that Jackson was going to do that movie. Then I found out it was going to be split into two movies. “Two movies?!?” I thought. “‘The Hobbit’ is a small book!” Then they decided to spread it across into three movies! It was obvious it was all about greed. I still have not watched “The Hobbit”, and I have no intention to.

There’s also a ‘Lake Disappointment’, so named because it’s in the middle of the desert, filled with salt water.

Mt disappointment; Australia overlooks Melburn, in the US it overlooks LA;

A friend of mine received a Phd in English based upon the Lord of the Rings. While he was disappointed that some of the movie had some scenes switched around, compared to the book, he did enjoy the movie itself.

Christopher Tolkien—at the next premiere—YOU…SHALL..NOT…PASS!!

I had heard that about Christopher Tolkien. I also missed Tom Bombadil in the movies.

The first movie is a perfect masterpiece.The second is a really good movie.The third is good.

While I do understand the absence of Tom Bombadil, PJ took way too many liberties. So, I understand why Christopher feels that way.

And let’s not talk about The Hobbit or the embarassing “rings of power”. They’re sullying and destroying a perfect masterpiece.

I’ve never seen or read Lord of the Rings stuff, nor do I want to. I’m really tired of all the trivia questions on this topic here and other places, like Jeopardy.

I wonder what happened to the rest of the dolphin?

Note to self: Don’t take dolphin skulls in carry-on luggage at the airport.

i was disappointed too…should have been done like the Hobbit…each book in trilogy should have been done in at least 3 movies…you never got the feeling of why these guys were friends…should have been 15 3 hour movies

Everybody’s Tolkien at me – I can’t here a word they’re saying – only the echos of dolphin skulls.

Don’t make mole hills out of mountains

Christopher Tolkien, by the way, died in 2020 at the age of 95. His own son, Simon, however, made him mad for awhile because Simon served as an advisor to the LOTR movie trilogy. Simon Says! The two reconciled before Christopher’s death.

clueless, found the intended definition on slang.net..> Expression of disappointment

> Womp is an expression of disappointment or letdown used to react to something negative. It comes from the low sound a trombone makes to convey sadness in songs, TV shows, and movies.

> The term often appears as “Womp womp” and may be spoken out loud or typed in text messages or online. Some examples of when you might use it are when a friend tells you he failed his test, when you spill your drink, or when your dad grounds your sister.

I’ve been disappointed after mounting.

I’m sure the dolphin’s teammates back in Miami were quite upset and not just a little bit inquisitive as to the reasons for this occurrence.

Take care, may famed spelunker Gordon “It’s About The Holes And Tunnels And Denied Claustrophobia Not About The Climb” Analretentiveord be with you, and gesundheit.

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Christopher Tolkein likely wanted the movie to be a more faithful adaptation of he and his father’s life work, but Jackson just went and invented stuff that made the whole narrative less interesting than the original

Christopher Tolkien was always bitter because he knew, no matter what he did, that he wouldn’t be as famous as Christopher Robin.

Naming it “Mt. Disappointment” only works for the first person to climb it. After that, it should’ve been renamed to “Mt. I Was Warned.” :-)