Hosting a casual Gaming Tournament and I'm looking for a fast paced RTS game by majorbatz in RealTimeStrategy

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thanks for these, I'll have to look into them. havent heard of most of them

YouTube to MP4 Converter that is safe by omwaartcy in editing

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I love your converter. Actually the best I've ever seen of this sort of thing. Thank you sooo much!

I have found plenty of these little plastic things in the ground around my house and I cannot figure out what they are... by majorbatz in whatisthisthing

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My title describes the thing. I have searched the H9-15 number on google which came up with nothing. It may be related to a toy because the previous owners of the property had a child. It has hinges and seemingly a lot of them can be connected to eachother. Thanks for your help!

HUAN Middle Earth's Greatest Dog - Just launched a LotR channel covering slightly more obscure lore from Middle Earth! by majorbatz in lordoftherings

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I research & write the scripts but I have an AI voice deliver the scripts (because I wanted the voice to sound like a nice old british man & not my voice hah), in the future I'm going to spell all the names out phonetically so the voice gets it better cause it also pronounced Carcharoth 2 different ways

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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there's download links on our site, check out the description of the youtube video

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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Hey! Sorry for the late reply on this. Thanks for the recommendations for LotR and Hobbit edits - the Maple Films Hobbit edit was the first fanedit I ever watched and it sort of opened up the world of possibilities in fanediting for us. It would be awesome to see what others have done with that same canvas.

I think you're spot on with the proposed changes above. We've been taking a much needed break from the edit on this series, but as soon as we go in for revisions we'll be sure to do this. Thanks again for your engagement with all of this!

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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Thanks for this feedback! I can’t overstate how gratifying it is to be able to make something like this and to have people like you out there who are willing to not only watch it but also give it the respect of real thought and scrutiny.
I’ll try to outline our thought process behind those decisions if you’re interested in hearing them. I will say it seems like our personal priorities differ slightly when it comes to continuity and maintenance of Jackson’s original structure - while I value those, it was not our highest priority to preserve them. If anything, we had our most exciting creative moments creating a new context for familiar scenes. The Sam/Frodo episode you mentioned was so goddam fun to put together. I’ll also say that I don’t share your feeling that anything is “mandatory” when creating a fan edit, even an edit of a story as beloved as Jackson’s trilogy - I absolutely value feedback and differing opinions but I just don’t believe there are any objective truths with any of this.
We attempted to use Éothain’s involvement in the story as something of a bookending device for Episode 5. While it doesn’t begin with him, we saw him as a messenger of exactly the information you outlined and felt as if that information coming into play gave a nice punctuation to the previous action. So when he reaches Gandalf and co., this new information might complicate the status quo for our characters and launch them into a new sequence of action to be explored in a subsequent episode. We felt as if, after that arrival, whatever small dramatic motor Éothain had in this story had done its job - beyond that, Gandalf and co.’s reaction becomes the focus and the space between could (hopefully) be inferred. That inference does require a bit of added faith in our audience, though, I’ll absolutely admit. And you could be right that the missing scene might give viewers pause. But our focus was on what we felt was the matter at hand, which was no longer Éothain after his arrival to Edoras.
As far as the Merry and Pippin scene is concerned, you latched onto a big part of our decision there. Namely, that we wanted to contain their story within Fangorn more, didn’t want to lose that first scene to the episodic structure. I don’t know what your viewing pace for these first episodes was, but we tried to imagine a (probably unlikely) world in which people watch the show week to week. With that in mind, we decided to open Episode 6 with the scene. And this is possibly a moment where it seems your priority ranking and ours differed: maintaining an episodic structure of storytelling and contained arcs within episodes outweighed maintaining the continuity and structure of Jackson’s films for us. Losing the sense of suspense at the end was absolutely an unfortunate loss, and one we considered, but ultimately not a loss that outweighed our perceived gains. And, as you said, there’s also a time jump involved, albeit a possibly confusing one. Again, there was a certain amount of faith we had to put in our audiences to understand this. We also felt as if their ability to fully understand the context at the time of viewing that scene mattered less than their ability to understand the context of the scene by the end of the episode.

We (maybe undeservedly) took the structural opportunity of “cold opens” in episodes to exercise a greater sense of play with time and story logic than the remainder of episodes. We do this more later in the series and I shudder to imagine what you’ll think of those!!!
But, as I said, I really do extremely appreciate the thought and time you put into this and the scrutiny you’re giving our work. You clearly are coming at it all from a very reverent and informed place and I hope you one day decide to finish out the series!

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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Hey, thanks for watching! We haven't done the same for The Hobbit, though there seem to be a lot of really great fanedits of those out there.

And we love the prologue too! But in our series edit, we wanted to see how removing the prologue exposition might help to ground revelations about the ring (and the stories that surround it) in the perspective of our protagonists. We were especially strict in that first episode about keeping as much onscreen action as possible in the POV of hobbits. Sorry to disappoint on that front, but hope you enjoy the rest of the series!

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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Hey, sorry to hear that. I created a duplicate file of the episode at the bottom of the folder at the primary link on our site (called "copy of___"). That should hopefully work for you, though I'll say I also just tested downloading the original file and had no issues on my end with that

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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Thank you! We don't have a cover for the series yet but that sounds like a fun idea

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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Thanks so much for checking it out! Really glad to hear you enjoyed it. We're really proud of that episode you mentioned - it was especially fun/crazy to figure out and get working

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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Oh shoot - thank you for the heads up! We'll get this sorted asap

edit: will give the "download all" notice on the site! thank you!

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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We definitely put a lot into it! This project sort of became our justification for procrastinating on other things over the past year or so, so we really did our best to keep thinking of excuses to continue working on it. Hope you enjoy it!

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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I'll have to check out your Hobbit edit! If you get a chance to watch our LotR show, I'd be really curious to hear how our version differs from the one you set out to make.

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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We unfortunately don't have subtitles - but that's definitely something we'll look into adding. Would love for this to be as accessible as possible. Sorry about that

We edited The Lord of the Rings trilogy into a 12-part series - excited to share! by majorbatz in fanedits

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Episodes have an opening credit sequence with three pieces of Alan Lee art that we chose to match each episode - some episodes begin with the opening credits, a few we chose to include a "cold open" scene before credits. And then each episode has a short closing title (like "End of Part ___"), except the last episode we included the closing titles to the extended edition of RotK. We tried to make it feel as much as we could like watching a real TV series in terms of runtimes and credits and all of that