“In order to deliver the best possible experience, we have decided to push the release of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum by a few months,” Daedalic said. The studio took to Twitter on Monday to announce it would need more time to complete work on the game. Viggo Mortensen and Ian McKellen don't have to worry about their places in any Hobbit-based prequel to LOTR, but Patrick O'Connor does a fine job as the usually contemplative Gandalf, and Adrian Webster's stoic, pale-eyed gaze goes a long way towards convincing us he truly carries "the foresight of his people." The only place the sub-pro nature of the production really bears out is in the script, which could have lost some of its reliance on LOTR buzzwords (quoting chapter titles was an nice homage in LOTR, here it's slavish and glaringly repetitive), and tried harder to match Tolkien's elegant prose.Daedalic Entertainment has delayed The Lord of the Rings: Gollum a little more than five weeks before it was due to debut on September 1st. THFG focuses on the small adventure of Aragorn's task.įor a fan-made film, the acting is solid. We find out later than Gandalf had asked Aragorn to track down Gollum so important holes in the story of the One Ring could be filled in, and the result was finding out that the Enemy knew of the Shire, and the name Baggins. We know from LOTR that, after Bilbo's birthday party, Gandalf went off with questions about the ring, and returned some time later in a panic to send Frodo and the ring away from the Shire to the temporary safety of Rivendell. The Hunt for Gollum (THFG) is a fan-made film, filling in one small piece of the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) saga that happened somewhere other than where Peter Jackson's cameras were filming and which was rather described by a bit of exposition. But once in a while, you get something more something special. What do you get when a group of passionate amateurs tackle beloved material with reverence and zeal? In some cases, hokey fan-fic and short films that demonstrate clearly both the zeal and the amateur status of the creators.
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