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Ancanar Teaser Trailer Available

Posted by michael on from the support-independent-film dept.

Still Gainfully Unemployed writes "A teaser trailer for Ancanar, an indie Tolkien inspired fantasy film, has been released. Check it out. It's not a Tolkien story, but rather inspired by his works."

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  1. Ancanar has not the bandwidth of Tolkien by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Give us a mirror to gaze upon, oh mighty wizzard! :)

  2. Based on the works of Tolkien by Well... · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you mean based on as in the way The Two Towers is based on Tolkien, or is it more accurate than that?

    1. Re:Based on the works of Tolkien by Paolomania · · Score: 4, Funny

      i guess that to some, anything less than scrolling the text of LOTR over the movie screen would not constitute as a "movie adaptation".

    2. Re:Based on the works of Tolkien by NaturePhotog · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It wasn't what was taken out, it's what was added.

      I didn't mind surfer-dude Legolas, but the "Mr. Frodo, we shouldn't even be here!" line from Sam when they're taken to Osgiliath makes my wife and I chuckle each of the times we've seen Two Towers. And we missed the huorns taking out the orcs at Helm's Deep. The extra footage on the DVD for Fellowship says a lot of the changes they made there were to 'keep the ring moving towards Mordor', and I could apprecitate them. But in Two Towers, the side trip to Osgiliath / making Farimir into a Boromir clone in terms of ring-lust, and Aragorn's tumble over the cliff just made no sense to us.

      But back on topic, I'm happy to see more fantasy films inspired by Tolkien's work. I just hope (as an earlier poster said) that it's not like Red Sonja or some of the other action-fantasy movies of the 70's and 80's.

  3. Tolkei n inspired ? by EpsCylonB · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not a Tolkien story, but rather inspired by his works.

    Doesn't that describe the vast majority of fantasy novels ?

  4. Download it... by Theom · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here. I hate to look at movies within a web browser, is there actually a QuickTime plug-in for Mozilla?

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  5. Yeah... quite a bit has been inspired by Tolken... by autopr0n · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And the vast majority of it sucks.

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  6. Two Towers now showing at Slashdot... by SkoZombie · · Score: 4, Funny
    Starring:
    • Cowboy Neal, as Gandalf as Not-so-gray
    • ./ readers, as the orcish hordes
    • micheal, as Saruman (He is directing the orchish hordes, remember?)
    • http://www.ancanar.com/, as the wall of helm's deep
    • Apache Server, as aragon and gimli (trying to hold back the orcish hordes)
    • Slashdot Effect, as the pyro effects that destroy the walls of helms deep.
  7. "After the King" by devphil · · Score: 4, Interesting


    is a collection of short stories, all inspired by Tolkien and written to honor him. Some major fantasy/SF authors participated. One of the stories even has Bilbo make an uncredited cameo. I highly recommend it.

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  8. Re:Some A LOT more than others. by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the king of one group of people is having his judgement clouded by a wicked chancellor who is actually working for the evil one.

    Yeah, not like that particular story element goes back to the Bible or Homer or anything.

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