Would There Ever Be a Possibility...?

[Nogrod]

As any discussion here will take time should we slowly start discussing about the part or chapter we should go for with a first "real" trial?

I'll post those clips of both Mac and Gwath soon into the xanga so you can hear them too. Sadly Gwath's mike is inbuilt to the computer and one really can hear it - he has nice voice and his pronounciation is just lovely.

So if you Matthew and Gwath could still look around for possibilites of fex. lending a mike from school / friend / friend's friend or something? Others I think have no problem.

And if there's no solution to Matthew's and Gwath's problems I would suggest we just take them in and suffer the quality of the recording equipment for the sake of getting two really good actors and friends in.

And the rest just keep on sending me your clips! Send me a PM to get my gmail -account address.

And let's go on suggesting a suitable chapter to try!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Thanks for the link, and most of all, for letting us hear the results of your live reading! It was very enjoyable, what with the accents, wolves, and all. I'm reminded of the live chat readings we did several years ago - one of the highlights of my Downs experience! Two posh Brit accents doing the two wizards and a wonderful Gollum - great stuff! Participants from several countries on two continents were united by the magic of the internet.

Right now, I don't have time for anything else than my current Tolkien project, so I can't join in. But I look forward to hearing more as your project proceeds...

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

So if you Matthew and Gwath could still look around for possibilites of fex. lending a mike from school / friend / friend's friend or something? Others I think have no problem.

I'll work on it.

[Nogrod]

If and when this is going to take some time we should also start to think about the sound effects and possible music stuff as well?

I do not think we will be such wizards that we could get any chapter fully composed but we might go for some interludes - or if the narration in the storyline calls for music then why not try to add some background music then? Someone said s/he would be happy to do some. After we decide on the chapter let's hear from you (McCaber that was?). I could also do some if needed. And anyone having ideas do then come forwards!


Making of sound effects has been something I have loved from very early on. I remember we made a kind of "Radio dramas" with my little sister back in the late seventies / early eighties (when I was ten+!) and I was already then most interested in trying to find the way to make the sounds even if the equipment at that time were quite primitive (we had a Tandberg reel-to-reel and a C-cassette radiorecorder back then and we recorded the effects on one, then played it and acted on it recording on the other one).

But if we'll really decide to go on with this project I'd have one more reason to invest some money to a decent digital audio recorder with which I could start experimenting with different sound effects (I've dreamt about it for a long time! Now I might have a reason to invest in it!). During the summer we could go to our summer cottage where the noises of the city would not interfere and we might record stuff like basic walking of a group in ME envirovenments, the howl of the wind, shooting of arrows, any watery noises (our cottage is by a lake) or whatever we need. And surely that would make us try the limits of our creativity at home! I mean the opening of the doors of Moria were not bad in our latest...

If we can avoid using the sfx cd's the better. The more we do ourselves the better. The more people are involved the better.

So thoughts on the chapter we should go for?

So thoughts on who sholud then play whom?

So thoughts on if we need music there and who should try making it?

So thoughts in possible sound effects we'd need in that chapter?


And if someone's thinking it: this is no closed society! Everyone is welcome whatever s/he can bring to this effort! Remember this is not dead serious! But surely we do our best...

[MatthewM]

How about The Ring Goes South or A Journey in the Dark, like you have recorded? Or maybe Farewell to Lorien?

Great job Downers on A Journey in the Dark! Really awesome to see this coming together!

[Gwathagor]

My vote goes to "The Ring Goes South." There is a great deal of dialogue in that particular chapter.

[Thinlómien]

Has anybody counted how many actors we have? That might affect the choice...

And as no one seems to be willing to guess, I'm going to reveal the cast of our audio clip before it's totally forgotten.

Nogrod is Gandalf.

Brinn is the narrator and Sam.

Aganzir is Frodo.

Volo is Gimli and Pippin.

A Little Green is Legolas and Merry.

I'm Boromir and Bill the Pony.

And by the way, you can't understand the brilliance of Greenie's performance unless you've heard Swedish.

[MatthewM]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Has anybody counted how many actors we have? That might affect the choice...

Well there's me, Nogrod, you, Gwath, Legate, Rikae (I think), Mac (I think), Brinn, Aganzir, Volo, A Little Green, and the KA(I think)? Am I missing anybody? If so I apologize.

With a cast this large, we could easily have each actor play one character. In "Farewell to Lorien" (I have to read through it again) but I think the whole Fellowship has lines along with Celeborn, Galadriel, and Haldir. But I am not completely sure if that's correct. I would like "The Ring Goes South", but let's see how many definite actors we have first, so we can include everybody.

As far as the casting goes, I would like to Boromir, as has been said. Does anybody else have a preference for who they play?

[Macalaure]

So... who wants to play what role. Who thinks who has a fitting voice for which role?

Matthew: Boromir
Nogrod: I would prefer him to play Gimli over Gandalf, because I missed some of Gandalf's grouchiness.
Legate: I rather liked his Aragorn.

Nogrod told me I would fit Legolas.

What do we do with our actresses? I love A Little Green's Gollum and Brinn's Sam. I wonder why nobody yet gave a sample of Galadriel or Éowyn.

(Matt, you missed Odd- and Nerwen )

Which chapter to do.... I would be for The Ring goes South or A Journey in the Dark - exciting chapters, lot's of dialogue. The Council of Elrond would be nice, but would probably require too many different voices for now. Lothlórien would also be interesting. If we had a really good Frodo, we could pick The Breaking of the Fellowship: His dialogue with Boromir is, in my opinion, one of the best dialogues of the whole LotR.

I'd also like to add my name on the list of people to applaud Nogrod and his crew for their amazing sound effects.

[MatthewM]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

Matthew: Boromir
Nogrod: I would prefer him to play Gimli over Gandalf, because I missed some of Gandalf's grouchiness.
Legate: I rather liked his Aragorn.

Nogrod told me I would fit Legolas.

Sounds great to me! I too really, really like Nogrod's Gimli, but whoever he wants to play is fine with me.

What do we do with our actresses? I love A Little Green's Gollum and Brinn's Sam.

Yeah, the female voices sounded good with hobbits, and I'm sure they could do great Elves too. Also the narrator could be female, like in the clip Brinn does.

Oh, and I sincerely apologize for leaving anybody out in my list of participants!

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

Nogrod told me I would fit Legolas.

Then again the roles of the elves should probably go for the ladies in the end if we look at the gender-ratio here. As goes to the roles of the hobbits as well (even if you made just a wonderful Frodo!)

If we'd have a chapter with baddies Mac should definitively be one. His Grima is just a celebration of acting!

I've sent the clips of Gwath and Mac to my xanga-account. Check them here.

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

I wonder why nobody yet gave a sample of Galadriel or Éowyn.

You know my microphone hasn't been working lately.

I just wanted to add my vote for, at the very least, the following:
MatthewM as Boromir
Nogrod as Gimli
Macalaure as Legolas
Also, somebody did a great Gollum, but I can't remember at the moment who it was (and I'm away from my own computer, so I can't find out right now.)

I'll have to listen to the clips again before giving more opinions, but those are the ones that definately stuck out in my mind so far.

McCaber - sounds great! You go ahead (I just wanted music, I don't really have the equipment on hand to create it.)