Talk:The Lord of the Rings (film series)

Homohpobic attacks on Ian McKellen

Apparently there have been a backlash to the casting of Ian McKellen from conservative circles, who called the actor "the worst thing that has happened to Tolkien's legacy" or something along those lines. Ian McKellen spoke out on the whole thing when it happened. The controversy was brought to public attention again by theonering.net in response to the same people organizing a hate campaign against the upcoming Amazon Prime series due to the casting of non white-actors. Does anybody know about reliable sources reporting on this? Sounds like something that needs to be mentioned. 46.97.170.112 (talk) 08:37, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

User:Special:Contributions/46.97.170.112; no this doesn't belong in this article at all. Your source is not reliable, nor does it benefit this page in any way/shape/form.--DisneyMetalhead (talk) 04:10, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Article title

With the announcement of a spin-off prequel film to this trilogy, doesn't it make more sense to retitle this article "The Lord of the Rings (film trilogy)", if we're not going to have the fourth film listed here. Mitchy Power (talk) 15:48, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Not really. The title is familiar and well-understood both on and off Wiki. Calling the putative anime "the fourth film" is (WP:POV) greatly overstating its status and relationship with the existing films. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:54, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

@Mitchy Power: no, the practice of naming an article with the specifier of "trilogy" -- is not at all good practice.--DisneyMetalhead (talk) 04:11, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Quick Facts Box Office

Should this not read 2,991 million (or 2.991 billion if you want) instead of 2,991 billion? The latter figure can't be correct. 95.146.56.26 (talk) 23:35, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit / The War of Rohhirim / The Rings of Power film franchise

It was previously very clear that these two trilogies and TV series spin-off were closely related, and one large film franchise. Looking at the article's current form, I see that there is no mention of these other properties. What is the reasoning behind separating these articles? Wouldn't a format similar to the Star Trek and Star Wars articles be more complete/helpful to the average reader?--DisneyMetalhead (talk) 04:13, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

There doesn't seem to be any logical explanation as to why these were separated in to multiple articles. I'm going to begin working on a draft of what a better format could look like. Input from other editors would be appreciated.--DisneyMetalhead (talk) 08:01, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

I wish you luck on it. I have been adding brief mentions of the Hobbit trilogy to the article, but they keep getting removed. ChristianJosephAllbee (talk) 12:28, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

@ChristianJosephAllbee: I'm sorry to hear that as that kind of behavior, without any logical reason as to why it is occurring is an example of WP:OWNing. I will attempt to make some edits and see where it gets me. This article used to be inclusive, while it is now completely reclusive of all related media. There shouldn't be numerous articles for the same franchise.--DisneyMetalhead (talk) 03:44, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

I made a little edit mentioning the trilogy. There is no reason at all why the trilogy shouldn't be mentioned here, as it was made by the same team (basically) featured many cast members returning and is even considered to be the same films series by the film makers. I also think The Rings of Power and War of the Rohirrim should be mentioned, because these works clearly tie into this trilogy (as much as the Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor & Shadow of War video games, which ARE mentioned in the article), regardless of personal feelings of certain editors, these works do exist and do tie into this trilogy, even if only loosely, and are part of its legacy.91.19.224.8 (talk) 07:09, 17 April 2022 (UTC)