LoTR Fan Film — The Hunt For Gollum

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 30, 2009 @11:57AM from the is-gollum-even-in-season? dept.

stevedcc writes "This weekend sees the release of The Hunt for Gollum, a Lord of the Rings fan-film. It'll be available on the web for free. The BBC are running an article about the making of the film, with a budget of £3,000 (spent mostly on costumes and make-up). There were 160 contributors involved, many over the internet." I hope it lives up to the trailer (linked from the BBC story); the finished film is approximately 40 minutes. memoryhole supplies links to YouTube for both the full trailer and a second trailer. Reader jowifi adds a link to NPR's story on the film, writing, "NPR discussed the legality of this type of creation with EFF lawyer Fred Von Lohman, who said it's not clear if such a production violates the copyright for Tolkien's work."

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Fucking fun sponge! by kramulous · 2009-04-30 20:56 · Score: 0, Flamebait

For fucks sake. Read the summary ... read the article and go to the site. Everything is legit.
Just enjoy the fucking movie. Or not, just shut up about it. I just heard of it, watched the trailers and am actually pretty excited about it.
What? Just because it doesn't have hollywood's seal of approval you assume it's crap? Take your copyright "expertise" to another thread. I wanna see nerds fight over their knowledge of the Tolkien world.
Fucking fun sponge.

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