"Lord of the Rings" Quicktime Preview Available

esk writes "A QuickTime 4.0 preview of the upcoming Lord of the Rings movie is now available at the official site." There's only about 30 seconds of actual footage from the movie in the two-minute trailer, but it's enough to give you an idea of what the characters will look like -- and they came out almost exactly as I have always envisioned them, even the Trolls and poor, sad Gollum. Yessssss!

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Direct links - all that you need..

[Gridle]

lotr_640_full.mov (29 MB) (Now I really hate the damn AI of /., it didn't let me put the absurdly long direct URL into a href)

QuickTime Installer.zip (8 MB) (Win32 version)

I, as many others, like to actually download the files instead of downloading a downloader program which downloads something which perhaps downloads something, that you can't even save to your HD after downloading it. These links work as of my writing, let's hope nobody changes the URLs.

Can't save the trailer? Here's how to do it.

[lythari]

For some reason, Apple or New Line have rigged it so that you can't save the trailer to hard drive. Fortunately, there are two ways to get around this.

OK, this has been bothering me for years

[streetlawyer]

Right, I need an answer to this question from a Lord of the Rings fan. The question is this:

Given that the Ring was so goddamned important, and that its destruction was literally the central event of the entire history of Middle-Earth, why did the supposedly wise Elves entrust this mission to a young hobbit with no military experience, supported by any friends he happened to pick up along the way? Particularly as the hobbit in question had never previously been more than a few miles from his native village.

Surely, the obvious solution would have been to assign a company of elven cavalry with magic swords, supported by Ents, and accompanied by guides familiar with the terrain. It's clear from the book that the elves could raise a huge military force when they had to -- why not use it for this mission?

The really annoying thing is that there *is* a reason why this was not an option, and a Lord of the Rings fan told me what it was three years ago. I forgot it, though, and it's been driving me mad ever since.

thanks, streetlawyer