Middle-Earth for Real?

[ninja91]

Originally Posted by The Squatter of Amon Rûdh

Damning criticism indeed, coming from someone who spent yesterday evening joining an internet discussion forum to which they didn't want to belong, discussing badly things in which they weren't interested and starting uninteresting threads that garnered no responses. Learning Quenya has rather more point to it, wouldn't you say, O Banned One?

Ouch
Nicely put!

It would be so hard to make one, though, because so much of what we see as Middle earth in the movies is computer generated...

[Macalaure]

As much as it would thrill me to see some of the places in Middle-earth in reality, I'm not sure what to think about the idea of a Middle-earth theme park. Maybe I'm just thinking too much of a Disneyland-type park with rollercoasters and such. If it's really just the models, I fear it wouldn't get enough interest to pay off, like Squatter said.

What I could imagine is a Middle-earth section in one of those parks where they have models of all the tourist sights from all over the world. That would be a nice thing indeed, as they usually have very good models and modellers, and with a few ME-experts to tell them how the places really looked (so that they not just copy the movie), why not?

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

As much as it would thrill me to see some of the places in Middle-earth in reality, I'm not sure what to think about the idea of a Middle-earth theme park. Maybe I'm just thinking too much of a Disneyland-type park with rollercoasters and such.

I have exactly the same reservations. I certainly wouldn't want to go to that sort of place, especially if it had a half-baked Tolkien theme slapped onto it. What you've suggested above sounds less frightful and more fun.

Originally Posted by The Squatter of Amon Rûdh

I have exactly the same reservations. I certainly wouldn't want to go to that sort of place, especially if it had a half-baked Tolkien theme slapped onto it. What you've suggested above sounds less frightful and more fun.

It probably wouldn't work as a Tolkein's World theme park, but it certainly could be built to form part of another major theme park (not necessarily Disney Land) to see Middle-Earth brought to life. There could be touches of areas such as Hobbiton, Gandalf & his fireworks, Rivendell, Loth Lorien, the mines of Moria, the Dark Tower etc incorporated into it. Quite a fun day out for the children & tourists, but not so perhaps for the die hard Tolkein Book fans. The main theme behind it would have to be fun - so rollercoasters (e.g. in the mines of Moria etc) would have to be part of it.

[Erue]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

What I could imagine is a Middle-earth section in one of those parks where they have models of all the tourist sights from all over the world. That would be a nice thing indeed, as they usually have very good models and modellers, and with a few ME-experts to tell them how the places really looked (so that they not just copy the movie), why not?

This made me think "Vegas". The Middle-earth hotel and casino?

[Valier]

There would have to be one of those picture things were you stick your head in the hole and you look like someone....say Aragorn and Arwen or Legolas and Gimli.
Also there should be Gandalf's walking around selling sweets and firecrackers.