LOTR inspired movie: Born of Hope (and The Hunt For Gollum)

NumenoreanLord · **Posted:** Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:32 am

A movie is being made as a prequel to the LOTR.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3268653/Orcs-are-back-in-Lord-of-the-Rings-inspired-Born-of-Hope.html
And not sure if people knew but there is another movie which is much further in production which follows Aragorn and his hunt for Gollum in the wilderness.
http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/
There are pretty good pictures and nice trailers.

WanderingDunedain · **Posted:** Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:16 am

looks pretty cool

LotrCrown · **Posted:** Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:13 pm

"we are not affiliated with the Tolkien Estate or New Line Cinema and are producing this project as an entirely non commercial film"

and they are giving it away for free !!

i might download it ,depends on if i have an hour to kill one day..

WanderingDunedain · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:17 am

heres the link to the site, i don't think that it has been posted http://bornofhope.com/index.html

DurinsBane · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:05 am

Wow, almost a month later and I have totally missed this thread !

Thanx for the last link WanderingDunedain, I have just watched some of the trailers...

At first, it is obvious that there is not the financial backing into this film that there was in TLOTR, and 'extremely clean' costumes stand out & Orc Make-Up, but I have to say...it looks intriguing and mostly a very welcome addition.
No matter how bad the filmography (if it does end up bad, I really did like parts of what I have seen so far), or the Make-Up or Costumes (cleanliness wise), I think I will certainly like to see this in full !

Thanx NumenoreanLord for posting this...a coin to you both

geezer of rhun · **Posted:** Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:17 am

NumenoreanLord & Wandering Dunedain,
Thanks for the Post & link!
I too stumbled onto this post late.
What a great idea and it looks pretty good... so far.
The trailer that deals with the production and speaks about the difficulty of making the costumes dirty was very interesting.
I hope it turns out well.
Hey Admins, I think these guys deserve a gold coin for their find :yay:

GofR

NumenoreanLord · **Posted:** Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:55 pm

Cheers for the coin DB :-D

I found another trailer for The Hunt For Gollum.
http://vimeo.com/1344990
It looks new to me. Looks good in its detail and their effort. I prefer THFG to BOH but thats just me.
There is also an On-Set video of Born of Hope as a link on that page if no one has seen that one.

Ukfreddybear · **Posted:** Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:55 pm

I think they will be welcome additions. Anything Lotr to ease the pain of waiting for the official movie releases can only be a good thing. The trailers seem very atmospheric. Captured my interest for sure.

Joansean · **Joined:** Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:23 pm **Posts:** 760

Interesting. I'll certainly have a look when they come out.

NumenoreanLord · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:35 am

Had time on my hands :-D

I found the official blog for The Hunt For Gollum. It is a good read with nice pictures and articles.
http://hunt4gollum.blogspot.com/

NumenoreanLord · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:52 pm

Found another article:
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/film/article.html?New_Gollum_fantasy_film_made_in_Britain&in_article_id=426558&in_page_id=9

Lord_Cicapha · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:59 am

Hmmmm. I must say Hunt For Gollum appeals to me more strongly, but that may just be as It looks more professional.

However i will watch both.

While I was on YouTube I picked up this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkNWF_75 ... re=related
Christopher Lee attempting to get up the steps made me laugh :-D

Chris.

NumenoreanLord · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:06 pm

Found a wicked new trailer. Much longer than the others.
http://www.residue-movie.com/th4g/trailers_player_trailer1flash.htm

NumenoreanLord · **Posted:** Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:51 am

Heres a link to an article on the composer of the music for 'Born of Hope' which shows some of his work.
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/01/06/30909-a-look-at-born-of-hope-composer-arjan-kiel/
Heres a link to the composer's website.
http://arjankiel.nl/

evil fishy1 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:22 am

one of the site gave me a virus

but other wise amazing find, I would never know about this with out your post. thatnks alot

its looks pretty good.

NumenoreanLord · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:43 am

The realease date has been announced for The Hunt For Gollum....May 3rd!
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/02/02/31077-fanfilm-the-hunt-for-gollum-online-may-3rd/
Also have it announced on website.

geezer of rhun · **Posted:** Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:02 am

Good news. I can't wait to see the finished product. Thanks NL!

NumenoreanLord · **Posted:** Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:12 pm

There is also alot of new stuff on the Born of Hope website(updated site as a whole aswell) which is going to be released Autumn/Fall 09 according to the website.
There are alot more screenshots and videos on the website.
http://bornofhope.com/Media.html
http://bornofhope.com/Photos.html

Quote:

October 2nd - 4th 2009

Film World Premiere!!

Ring*Con 2009 - Bonn, Germany

We are very excited to return to Ring*Con! Come and join us for our World Premiere! This will be the first opportunity to see the film anywhere and not only that but to see it on a big screen the way it should be seen.

From website events.
There are also galleries for each character/actor:
http://www.bornofhope.com/Galleries.html

aqan · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:26 am

I don't like thread necromancy but I thought that you might want to know that the site now says born of hope will be released on 1 december 2009.

Adanedhel · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:24 pm

which is good news, so I think your Thread Necromancy was for a good reason

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