Lord of the Rings Theatrical Trailer

BadmanX writes: "The brand new Lord of the Rings trailer that ran on several shows tonight (including the season premier of Angel) is available for download from Apple's Quicktime site." Hmmm. Mirrors definitely needed.

Comments

Re:mirror

[Marcus Brody]

oh sh*t, i lied!

follow the link and it just takes you to the apple site :-(

big DOH

however, it does have a scene by scene account with pictures here:

http://www.theonering.net/

Yes, i know its not the same, but it looks pretty cool just from the pics....

Recommended fansite

[pointwood]

If you are in search for more information - I highly recommend TheOneRing.net. It's a really cool site, updated very often.

Lesson In Distribution

[shut_up_man]

I really wish big companies would GET A CLUE when it comes to distributing popular content on the net. They just keep on screwing it up, over and over, during the WTC attack and every time anything to do with LoTR or Star Wars gets posted.

• Mirroring is essential. And NOT like having three web servers in the same building, you fools. Scatter them all over the world, and provide links from the official site so people can make choices about where they slurp from.
  
  
• Choose providers who can handle this sort of load balancing, like Akamai. What the hell piddly server is squeeze.sorensen.com? No wonder it exploded a nansecond after it got posted.
  
  
• Allow downloads, instead of streaming-only distribution. Golf claps for doing this for the latest LoTR trailer, but big boos for messing the rest up.
  
  
• Let people mirror the files themselves - in fact, ENCOURAGE it. People want to help, let them. Don't get all caught up in legal crap, in case you haven't realised it, we're making copies for our friends already.
  
  
• Throw files on a P2P service like Kazaa. P2P is PERFECT for this kind of distribution.
  

It's all freaking simple, people.

shut up man

Re:Mirrors - DivX and Real Video as well!!

[shut_up_man]

Hang on... that trailer is dated September 6th, people. I've seen it before as well. I don't think it's the same as what is being offered on the official site (although it's completely smoked, so I can't make a comparison).

shut up man

MIRROR: I just put it on Morpheus

[BenHmm]

search Morpheus for "fellowshipoftherings_fs.mov"

it's the full screen version, and *hell*yes*it*rocks*

I've throttled the max uploads to save myself, if you get it, spread it around...

Re:What's the deal with LOTR?

[Old Wolf]

The forces of Mordor would have crushed the army. The might of Gondor had been waning for decades -- the nations were much much weaker than they were at the battle of the Last Alliance. You will see this at the scene "The Black Gate Opens" (probably near the start of the third film), and perhaps sooner if they play it up.

The only way to victory lay in sneaking undetected into Orodruin and depositing the ring. The hobbits were chosen because they were hardy and the most likely to overcome the temptation of the ring. Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel etc. declined to take on the ring because they thought they would be unable to resist the temptation to use it.

Also, the elves had departed from the affairs of men after the Last Alliance (it wasn't call the _Last_ one for no reason). Many of them had already departed Middle-Earth; there were only a few left and they certainly had no plans to engage in a war.

the easiest way to get these files is always P2P

[Kraft]

1. Get Morpheus.
2. Install and run it.
3. Select "Video" and search for "Lord of the rings"
4. then you should be able to get in a few mins. The problem is figuring out what the hell the file is called.

With apples shit site, I have to upgrade to a new version of quicktime, which took me forever and it still doesn't work. I wanted to get the zip file from the sorensen server... but it's dead.

... or you can just view the file here:
http://homepage.mac.com/johnemdall/.Movies/lotr- tv 240.mov

Re:Grrr ... QuackTime

[purplemonkeydan]

Well, actually.. quicktime is less crappy than windoze mediaplayer.

Well, that's a matter of taste, really. I don't think either of them are particularly great. Same with RealWhatever. Roll on DiVX and MPEG!

Second, believe it or not but the official MPEG4 standard is based on.... quicktime!!!

IIRC, they didn't use the codec, just the data format. Most QT movie trailers use the Sorenson codec.

Personally, I think they should release trailers in as many format as possible. MPEG1, MPEG4, WinMedia, Real and QT. Cover all the bases, and you get some form of inherent mirroring as well (MSN would host the WM on their site, Apple would host the QT, and so on)

9/6 Trailer is not 9/24 Trailer

[Gregoyle]

Thanks to all those posting links to tolkien-movies.com and Ain't it Cool News, but the trailers they have from Sept 6th are not the same as the one from last night, Sept. 24th.

To my knowledge none of the mirror sites have it yet (although that could change). TheOneRing.Net just posts a link to the broken Apple/Sorenson server. They may be available on the Morpheous/Kazaa network; I'm at work and haven't been able to check. I'd post a mirror, too, except I haven't been able to get the latest trailer myself :-).

I've set up a mirror...

[infernix]

I mirrored the Large version (480x204), it's 18MB. If I find the fullscreen version I'll put it up there too. Grab it here:

http://lotr.infernix.net/

Note: PLEASE SATURATE THIS LINK.

I repeat: PLEASE SATURATE THIS LINK.

It's our (yet) unused new uplink and I'd like to stress-test it.

Thanks ;)

infernix

Re:I've set up a mirror...

[psychos]

Fullscreen .mov file

This is a fast mirror (the one in the parent message is horribly saturated).

Got it from Gnutella in 5 minutes

[fils]

Use Limewire, what I think is the best and now open source gnutella client.

http://www.limewire.com
http://www.limewire.org

Search on fellowshipofthering

several t3 speed sites have it....

Re:general accent giggle - US or what?

[Grab]

By nationality:-

British
Sean Bean (Boromir)
Ian Holm (Bilbo)
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
Billy Boyd (Pippin)
Dominic Monaghan (Merry)
Orlando Bloom (Legolas)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
Bernard Hill (Theoden)
The voice of Andy Serkis (Gollum)

Australian
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)
Miranda Otto (Eowyn)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
John Noble (Denethor)
David Wenham (Faramir)

New Zealand
Martin Czokas (Celeborn)
Karl Urban (Eomer)

American
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Sean Astin (Sam)
Viggo Mortenson (Aragorn)
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)

As for pronouncing it as Tolkein put in the appendix, the purists have lost that one - the trailers definitely pronounce Gandalf as Gandalf, not Gandolv.

It's a shame only the Americans will invest in movies. Since half the actors are Brits, the top Hollywood cinematographers are Brits, and the book was written by a Brit, you'd reckon you could drum up some finance in Britain. But no... Silly buggers, money-men.

Grab.