Return Of The King Footage From E3

Arathorn writes "TheOneRing.net has a Quicktime movie up of just over a minute's worth of live footage from Return of The King , as shown at E3. The quality's pretty abysmal, but it gives a much-needed taster of what RoTK's going to look like. The soundtrack (such as it is) is from the final act of The Two Towers." Update: 05/21 18:47 GMT by T : Reader Adam Roben has set up a BitTorrent session as well.

Comments

Dont download it, dont go and see it

[shrewtamer]

I must advise you not to have anything to do with this adulteration. If you haven't read the book then you'll get much more out of that than out of the film. If you have read the book then after seeing the Two Towers you should know better.

The Lord of the Rings is a great piece of work and the fact is that if the One Ring ever went to Gondor then Sauron would've noticed it, GAME OVER. Journey to Mount Doom was only possible because Faramir unlike his hot headed brother had the good sense to allow Frodo onto Mordor unmolested. (I walked out of the last movie when this bit went wrong.) I have to say that other than this crucially important departure from plot the visualisation has generally been great; while I give Jackson some credit for a good rendition, the fact is that the book paints the original picture.

I'm not a purist, I accepted that the films weren't going to be a mirror image, couldn't understand the need to screw up the end of the Fellowship, even managed to swallow Glorfindel being replaced by an Arwen who could cast spells, but this distortion of the fabric is unacceptable.

Do not see this movie, it is damaging to one of those works that is so brilliant as to have become woven into our mythology.

I was happy a couple of years ago when I heard Peter Jackson talking of the responsibility of making this movie. After the Two Towers I left the theatre enraged. I am now just starting to be able to talk about it.

Now I feel betrayed. Please do not watch it.

Re:The reason for the bad quality

[Phroggy]

Why is the clip horrible in quality? Because it's a video tape of the screen at E3.

Thank you for that insightful comment. Perhaps this explains why the title of the Slashdot article says "Footage from E3." And the way the camera moves around and people are talking in the background, I would never have guesses that this was actually a video tape.