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04-25-2007, 01:03 PM
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Titles rejected by Frodo, Bilbo and others.
Well, the game is simple and a little silly.
We know that Bilbo went though several titles for his story, so I thought it would be fun to suggest alternate titles for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and any other Tolkien work. Sound good? Then let's go... The Lord of the Rings could have been called... - Quest Good. - The Hobbit 2: The revenge of the killer Hobbit - Honey, I lost the Ring. - Sauron's Strange Silliness. - Rings an' stuff. The Silmarillion could have been called... - The Book of shiny things that get stole. - Book - Honey, I stole the Silmarils The Children of Hurin could have been called... - Honey, I lost the kids. - Bad stuff in 3D - Honey, I killed the kids - Melkor's Malevolent Movements
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04-25-2007, 01:57 PM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
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Great thread, Hookbill!
The Lord of the Rings could have been in separate books as it is:
Book One - How I Met the Riders Book Two - Two Deaths... Book Three - ...and One Funeral Book Four - The Two Hobbits' Tale Book Five - It Was on Fire When I Lay Down On It Book Six - same as above. The Silmarillion could have been called: - All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten The Akallabëth could have been called: - The Old Man and the Sea The Children of Hurin could have been called one of these: - The Old Man and the See - Beleriand 90210
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04-25-2007, 02:07 PM
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LOTR -"We didn't mean to go to Mordor"
Hobbit "Bilbo Baggins and the Wizard's Quest"
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04-25-2007, 05:01 PM
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Random Title #218
Lord of the Rings:
~Frodo and Sam's Excellent (and Dangerous) Adventure ~A Bunch of People Go Places, and Some of Them Return! ~101 Ways to Injure a Ringbearer ~Why Sauron Sold his Practice The Hobbit: ~My Story ~Why Dragons Aren't that Scary ~How Many Dwarves Does it Take to Get Rid of a Dragon? (Answer on Page 335)
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04-26-2007, 12:28 AM
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The Silmarillion:
- The Valla from Hell - Harry Potter And The Magical Demon - I Can't believe it's not Lord of the Rings - Police, Camera, Elves - Carry On Melkor - I love the First Age
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04-26-2007, 07:04 AM
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The "Fog on the Barrow-Downs" chapter was almost re-named "Frodo Baggins and the Deathly Hallows"
 Or a nice idea for the Silmarillion: Elves are from Venus, Men are from Mars Maybe in a Narnia-style for LotR: The eagle, the Witch-king and the Ring
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Delos B. McKown Last edited by The Might; 04-26-2007 at 07:07 AM. |
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04-26-2007, 11:50 AM
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The Lord of the Rings:
- What we did on holiday - Rings and Things - Kings and Rings - The Rings that sings - Big Book of Stuff what happened... Children of Hurin - Christopher Tolkien Likes your money - One o' them stories - Bad luck old chap...
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I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket... |
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04-26-2007, 03:15 PM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
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Other ideas...
As when everything is going to be renamed except for the Hobbit, we'd read the titles as follows (in order of the Hobbit, LotR, New Shadow, Silmarillion, CoH)
The Hobbit The Hobbits (with the subtitle "This Time, It's War!") The Hobbit 3 The Hobbit -1 The Hobbit without the Hobbits
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04-27-2007, 01:27 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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We should have caught the Bus to Rivendell.
The first few chapters of LotRs could be called:
Stains, Pains and Autumnhobbles. .
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04-27-2007, 12:19 PM
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Lord of the Rings:
"To Hell and Back" |
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04-28-2007, 01:09 PM
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Before settling on 'The New Shadow' Tolkien tried...
- Not Lord of the Rings - Let's make up and be Friendly - The Old bad - The New Car - The New House - The New Hobbit? - The News. - The News at ten - The New Barrow
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12-13-2010, 04:47 AM
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For REM fans
The Hobbit:
How the Ring was won... LotR: ...and where it got us LotR Book VI specifically: This is the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
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03-11-2008, 07:01 AM
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-Too much Pipe-weed (Hey, they chose the long way, didn't they? I rest my case.)
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07-12-2008, 02:17 PM
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Or possibly:
When movies are possible, make one about this and get rich. alternatively: How to find a ring lost by your fellow Maia- A guide by Gandalf.
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07-12-2008, 02:28 PM
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The ideas for Roverandom ranged from odd to insane...
- Caterandom (crossed out with the note 'not good') - Motharandom (scribbled out with 'stupid' written beside it) - Three blokes walk into a pub (considered for a while, then stabbed with a spoon) - Mr Sandman, give me your shoes! (A late night effort by Tolkien) - The Man in the Moon's least favorite Tuesday (scrapped when Tolkein realised it was a Thursday) - Wizards and Trousers: a study (back when it was a more academic piece) But a few of the ideas for 'The Letters of Father Christmas' were too bizarre... - April Fools in December (Almost gave Christopher Tolkien a heart attack... at age 5) - Father Christmas: Abominable slave owner of the Frozen wastes (this version included some... unnerving illustrations...) - Where Noldor go when they die... (scrapped as a title after Tolkien realised that Feanor would burn down Father Christmas' beard in about a second).
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