Your personal opinions on Wargs?

straight_face · 01-19-2003, 04:10 PM

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When I read "The Hobbit", the Wargs were also called wolves, so I expected them to be as wolves are, in shape and form, yet more foul, ferocious, and larger than average wolves. In the movie the Wargs were like giant hyenas, if you catch my drift. Feel free to reply and explain what you expected the Wargs to look like.

P.S. Did anyone noticed that Shadowfax, well, looked like a female horse? Were they afraid that people would be offended by the body parts of a male horse?

Sminty_Smeagol · 01-19-2003, 04:34 PM

i always thought shadowfax was silver... I do realize this would look silly, but maybe if they made him light grey with a sheen...

and yeah abuot the wargs. PJ seems to love making monsters. I also didnt picture the orcs as having blue skin, slightly more humanoid than in the films.

maybe shadowfax is transvestite?

Coney · 01-19-2003, 04:50 PM

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Were they afraid that people would be offended by the body parts of a male horse?

There is only so much you really want to see on a 23' x 15' screen

legolasluvr2931 · 01-19-2003, 04:57 PM

You know... I kinda thought that they were sorta cute. Besides the fact that they almost killed the main characters and they were mean and nasty and completly inconsiderate of the fact that there were women and children and fathers and hot guys (Legolas/Orlando Bloom!!) there fighting for their lives. How rude! LOL!

FrodoFriend · 01-19-2003, 05:21 PM

I pictured them as black and more wolf-like too. And I never pictured Orcs as being so extremely deformed and slimy.

Evenstar1400 · 01-19-2003, 07:14 PM

the fotr video game for playstation shows the wargs as being black and wolf like, with ratlike tails. i thought the wargs in the movie were kinda big, and i pictured them as being smaller. as for the video game, i think their picture of the wargs was more accurate (in my mind)

Dúnedain · 01-19-2003, 09:27 PM

Personally I loved the Wargs, I think it adds another element to middle earth that separates it from the world we know. I thought they looked badass!!

unregistered · 01-19-2003, 09:30 PM

I also pictures the wargs to be more wolf like.
Now i've only seen this film 5 times (haha tied with sminty) and I can't remember seeing them having tails! Did any see if they did or not?

Sminty_Smeagol · 01-20-2003, 10:46 AM

Uhhhh.... H/o *puts in TTT(movie version) ps2 game* Yeah they had tails. Not really long ones though. Like, mini cat tails or long dog tails. The tails are only bout 1/3 as long as their bodies. I think they made them the same in the video game atleast... It's the movie version and they look like same otherwise.

Oh btw D I asked cassie if she wanted to go see TTT again with me and she gave me this weird eyebrow thing... lol i want to see it again so we can be tied!

http://www.filmhobbit.com/movierevie...ler3/wargs.jpg
grr you cant tell...

http://www.warofthering.net/download...wb_special.ram

Celebréiel · 01-20-2003, 11:02 AM

I agree,

I didnt like the wargs either, but honestly compared to the rest of the film, they were the least of my troubles. But yeah..much too....I think someone said rabid over grown hyena?

I think that fit them well.
~Celebréiel

Sminty_Smeagol · 01-20-2003, 11:07 AM

I think PJ just loves doing ugly monsters. He overexaggerates ugly things a bit.

Celebréiel · 01-20-2003, 11:12 AM

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Originally posted by Sminty_Smeagol
I think PJ just loves doing ugly monsters. He overexaggerates ugly things a bit.

Yeah i noticed that, I think its his horror movie past showing through. Like with the 'lights' in the dead marshes.

~Celebréiel

unregistered · 01-20-2003, 12:11 PM

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Originally posted by Sminty_Smeagol
Uhhhh.... H/o *puts in TTT(movie version) ps2 game* Yeah they had tails. Not really long ones though. Like, mini cat tails or long dog tails. The tails are only bout 1/3 as long as their bodies. I think they made them the same in the video game atleast... It's the movie version and they look like same otherwise.

Oh btw D I asked cassie if she wanted to go see TTT again with me and she gave me this weird eyebrow thing... lol i want to see it again so we can be tied!

http://www.filmhobbit.com/movierevie...ler3/wargs.jpg
grr you cant tell...

http://www.warofthering.net/download...wb_special.ram

So they did have tails? ok

BTW liz i thought we were already tied? 5-5?

Sminty_Smeagol · 01-20-2003, 12:55 PM

*I can be winning. typo thingy. ANd yes they had tails.

Dunadan · 01-20-2003, 01:19 PM

I thought they were great. In the books, they're not described in a lot of detail, and PJ's realisation made me reconsider how seriously badass they were (and the orcs who had to ride them).

I've only seen the film once, so could hardly remember what they looked like. Thanks for the link to the vid clip; that stunt Legolas does to leap onto the running horse was ultra-groovy.

GandalfTheWhite · 01-20-2003, 02:35 PM

i agree, i think they looked too much like hyenas, they had huge humps in their backs. PJ is a little too monster crazy

Blackboar · 01-20-2003, 02:42 PM

I thought they were really cute!!

unregistered · 01-20-2003, 06:19 PM

Cute eh? Yes they sure were, running around with orcs on there back and devouring men alive... yes very cute.... it makes you want to squeze them like a teddy bear...

Noahamir · 01-20-2003, 06:30 PM

I thought they looked bad the first time I saw the movie, but I didn't mind them that much the second time.

In my mind though I thnk PJ made them more monstrous looking because trying to replicate large realistic wolves with CGI would have looked more fake because we know what wolves are supposed to look like in real life.

As for having the whole warg battle in the first place, I don't mind that much. I kinda think of it as making up for having no Wargs between Redhorn Pass and Moria in the first movie.

Tinuviel sings again · 01-22-2003, 11:05 PM

I've always seen the Wargs as being more wolf like than they were in the movie (to be honest, I had no idea what they were when they first appeared on the screen) But I guess they're still ok in a kind of hyena-looking type of way...
The orcs look pretty much just what I thought they would look like, though I might have seen them a little taller...

01-19-2003, 04:34 PM	#2
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	i always thought shadowfax was silver... I do realize this would look silly, but maybe if they made him light grey with a sheen... and yeah abuot the wargs. PJ seems to love making monsters. I also didnt picture the orcs as having blue skin, slightly more humanoid than in the films. maybe shadowfax is transvestite? __________________ I love the fishes.

01-19-2003, 05:21 PM	#5
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	I pictured them as black and more wolf-like too. And I never pictured Orcs as being so extremely deformed and slimy. __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

01-19-2003, 07:14 PM	#6
Evenstar1400 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the inner depths of my lair. Posts: 421	the fotr video game for playstation shows the wargs as being black and wolf like, with ratlike tails. i thought the wargs in the movie were kinda big, and i pictured them as being smaller. as for the video game, i think their picture of the wargs was more accurate (in my mind) __________________ Treebeard: Hmm, you look like hobbits, smell like hobbits, feel like hobbits and sound like hobbits. You must be orcs!

01-19-2003, 09:27 PM	#7
Dúnedain High King of Númenórë Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Númenórë <--United States of America Posts: 1,947	Personally I loved the Wargs, I think it adds another element to middle earth that separates it from the world we know. I thought they looked badass!! __________________ 'Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!' - And those were the words that Elendil spoke when he came up out of the Sea on the wings of the wind: 'Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world.' 'Then Tuor arrayed himself in the hauberk, and set the helm upon his head, and he girt himself with the sword; black were sheath and belt with clasps of silver. Thus armed he went forth from Turgon's hall, and stood upon the high terraces of Taras in the red light of the sun. None were there to see him, as he gazed westward, gleaming in silver and gold, and he knew not that in that hour he appeared as one of the Mighty of the West, and fit to be father of the kings of the Kings of Men beyond the Sea, as it was indeed his doom to be; but in the taking of those arms a change came upon Tuor son of Huor, and his heart grew great within him. And as he stepped down from the doors the swans did him reverence, and plucking each a great feather from their wings they proffered them to him, laying their long necks upon the stone before his feet; and he took the seven feathers and set them in the crest of his helm, and straightway the swans arose and flew north in the sunset, and Tuor saw them no more.' -Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin "Oh. Forgive me, fairest of all males of Entmoot...Back down, all ye other wannabe fairest males! Dunedain is the fairest!" --Linaewen

01-19-2003, 09:30 PM	#8
unregistered Enting Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 85	I also pictures the wargs to be more wolf like. Now i've only seen this film 5 times (haha tied with sminty) and I can't remember seeing them having tails! Did any see if they did or not? __________________ www.pbreview.com/forums I'm old Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel...thin, sort of...stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday, a very long holiday, and I don't expect I shall return. In fact, I mean not to.-Biblo Baggins

01-19-2003, 04:57 PM	#4
legolasluvr2931 Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: New Zealand Posts: 30	You know... I kinda thought that they were sorta cute. Besides the fact that they almost killed the main characters and they were mean and nasty and completly inconsiderate of the fact that there were women and children and fathers and hot guys (Legolas/Orlando Bloom!!) there fighting for their lives. How rude! LOL!

01-20-2003, 10:46 AM	#9
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	Uhhhh.... H/o puts in TTT(movie version) ps2 game Yeah they had tails. Not really long ones though. Like, mini cat tails or long dog tails. The tails are only bout 1/3 as long as their bodies. I think they made them the same in the video game atleast... It's the movie version and they look like same otherwise. Oh btw D I asked cassie if she wanted to go see TTT again with me and she gave me this weird eyebrow thing... lol i want to see it again so we can be tied! http://www.filmhobbit.com/movierevie...ler3/wargs.jpg grr you cant tell... http://www.warofthering.net/download...wb_special.ram __________________ I love the fishes.

01-20-2003, 11:02 AM	#10
Celebréiel Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: A house! Posts: 376	I agree, I didnt like the wargs either, but honestly compared to the rest of the film, they were the least of my troubles. But yeah..much too....I think someone said rabid over grown hyena? I think that fit them well. ~Celebréiel __________________ Peace Yeah, Your an individual...just like everyone else. http://cartalien.deviantart.com/ - Arty goodness

01-20-2003, 11:07 AM	#11
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	I think PJ just loves doing ugly monsters. He overexaggerates ugly things a bit. __________________ I love the fishes.

01-20-2003, 12:55 PM	#14
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	*I can be winning. typo thingy. ANd yes they had tails. __________________ I love the fishes.

01-20-2003, 01:19 PM	#15
Dunadan The Quite Querulous Quendi Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Oxon, UK Posts: 638	I thought they were great. In the books, they're not described in a lot of detail, and PJ's realisation made me reconsider how seriously badass they were (and the orcs who had to ride them). I've only seen the film once, so could hardly remember what they looked like. Thanks for the link to the vid clip; that stunt Legolas does to leap onto the running horse was ultra-groovy.

01-20-2003, 02:35 PM	#16
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	i agree, i think they looked too much like hyenas, they had huge humps in their backs. PJ is a little too monster crazy __________________ "Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council." -Gandalf The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. "He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom." -Gandalf "A thing is about to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days: the Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong." -Gandalf

01-20-2003, 02:42 PM	#17
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	I thought they were really cute!!

01-20-2003, 06:19 PM	#18
unregistered Enting Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 85	Cute eh? Yes they sure were, running around with orcs on there back and devouring men alive... yes very cute.... it makes you want to squeze them like a teddy bear... __________________ www.pbreview.com/forums I'm old Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel...thin, sort of...stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday, a very long holiday, and I don't expect I shall return. In fact, I mean not to.-Biblo Baggins Last edited by unregistered : 01-20-2003 at 06:24 PM.

01-20-2003, 06:30 PM	#19
Noahamir Hobbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 29	I thought they looked bad the first time I saw the movie, but I didn't mind them that much the second time. In my mind though I thnk PJ made them more monstrous looking because trying to replicate large realistic wolves with CGI would have looked more fake because we know what wolves are supposed to look like in real life. As for having the whole warg battle in the first place, I don't mind that much. I kinda think of it as making up for having no Wargs between Redhorn Pass and Moria in the first movie.

01-22-2003, 11:05 PM	#20
Tinuviel sings again Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the USA Posts: 24	Warg beasties I've always seen the Wargs as being more wolf like than they were in the movie (to be honest, I had no idea what they were when they first appeared on the screen) But I guess they're still ok in a kind of hyena-looking type of way... The orcs look pretty much just what I thought they would look like, though I might have seen them a little taller... __________________ As you are I once was and as I am you soon shall be - Inscription from a tombstone

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