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? As a TRPG game (board game) lover, Howard has been looking forward to the movie "Lord of the Rings" adapted from Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" for a long time.

He and Rajesh, Leonard and Sheldon often go to the Moria Mine together on weekends.

——Of course, in a tabletop game.

At that time, others always let Howard, the shortest, play the role of Hobbit.

In this regard, Howard has been working hard to resist...

However, this is not the point.

The point is, when four people play a board game about "The Lord of the Rings" together, they can't help but enjoy this movie version of "The Lord of the Rings".

Anyway, not only Howard has been, but the four-man team are actually looking forward to it.

However, at this time, the release time of "Lord of the Rings 1" is approaching, and Howard doesn't know if he should watch it.

From the heart, he really wants to go;

However, although 9/11 occurred in New York and Washington, it actually had a great impact on the otakus in California Institute of Technology——

Among other things, Sheldon even became a doomsday survival enthusiast.

——Of course, only on paper.

In Howard’s opinion, if this thin bamboo pole who always discriminates against his master’s degree cannot overcome his obsessive-compulsive disorder and cleanliness, then he will go to the forest park to play, and he can’t play for long, let alone survive the end...

And Leonard didn't let it be too much--

Because of the excitement of 9/11, he was bold enough to propose to Petunia, who had finally agreed to date him!

What's even more exaggerated is that Petunia actually agreed to him! !

This is simply a flower stuck on the cow dung! ! !

——Howard feels that the end of the world must be coming soon.

Especially the reason why Petunia agreed--

"I always thought I was still young, but this incident made me realize that death can actually come at any time, and when I don't want to die, I'm still alone..."

Because of the influence of 9/11, this girl who is usually carefree suddenly became abnormally emotional.

This made Howard couldn't help but doubt that even if he went to marry him, he might succeed.

"However, as a good friend of Leonard, I still don't compete with him!"

Howard felt good about himself.

As for Rajesh, Howard's Indian friend was not affected by 9/11 too much, but the main reason Howard felt that he should be from India.

That place in India...

Well, Howard has not actually been to India.

However, as a typical American, Howard subconsciously feels that places outside North America are in chaos, which is not a strange thing.

What's more, Rajesh, as an Indian youth who is unwilling to return to India, really rarely instills a positive image of India in Howard...

In short, just like his friends, Howard was also affected by 9/11.

More often, he is reluctant to go to some public places, but rather stay at home and be yelled at by his mother.

——Well, as a qualified Jewish youth, it is not strange to live with his old mother.

Who would let everyone born of Jewish mothers be considered Jews in a broad sense?

——Jews are the most famous people in the world who judge the relationship between generations by their matrilineal lineage.

In this case, Howard doesn’t think there is any problem with his situation,

He just wanted to watch the movie version of "The Lord of the Rings" in his heart, and because of the influence of 9/11, he was a little worried about going to the cinema, which made Howard quite entangled.

Until he saw the movie version of "Lord of the Rings", which is the second version of the trailer for "Lord of the Rings"——

"This should be the Rivendell Valley, right?"

Looking at the beautiful land of elves in the trailer, Howard's originally agitated mood gradually became peaceful.

He thinks the scenery is so beautiful.

"If I could live in such a place, I would feel very good!"

Howard thought leisurely in his heart, until the scene of the trailer changed and switched to the picture of Shire.

——That is the hometown of the protagonist Frodo and other hobbits.

Out of his love for the hobbit, Peter Jackson performed 120% of the shots about the Shire.

Coupled with the all-out efforts of the special effects department of the Ghost Party Studio, and the cheerful and leisurely music-Charles's landscape looks like a beautiful oil painting in the trailer.

"It's like heaven!"

Howard sighed in his heart.

Especially seeing Hobbits who look like gardens on the outside, but a bit like a cave inside, but a cozy hut with a cave, Howard instinctively feels a burst of warmth.

"Maybe I can build a house like this after I get married in the future!"

Howard thought so.

He forgot, because of his short head, he was always asked by friends to play the hobbit in TRPG games.

——It is estimated that if he really lived in that kind of hobbit-style house, his nickname would be even more difficult to escape...

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And Howard is not the only one who likes the hobbit's cozy cave-like hut.

Emily and Jaina also like this natural, comfortable and warm style.

Especially Emily. While watching this trailer, which was completely different from the first version, she recalled the tree house that she built with her dad when she was a child.

"I wonder if the tree house is still there now?"

Emily was a little lost.

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There are actually many audiences who are as lost as Emily.

On the one hand, everyone was surprised at the beauty of Shire and Rivendell in the trailer;

On the other hand, everyone is also very curious. Is the "Lord of the Rings" in this trailer and the "Lord of the Rings" in the first standard epic movie trailer really the same movie?

Those who have read the original work of "The Lord of the Rings" would like to learn more about this visualized Middle-earth world;

And for those who have not read the original, their curiosity is completely aroused.

"Since the scenery in the second trailer can be so peaceful and beautiful, it at least shows that this movie will not be purely fighting and killing-just being able to appreciate the scenery of this fantasy world is already worth the price! "

Anyway, that's what Diana told her boyfriend Andrew.

And there are many audiences who hold the same thoughts as her...

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In fact, some major commercial productions in Hollywood will release two or three trailers one after another before they are released, but the normal practice is to gradually increase the content of the trailers and reveal them to the audience little by little. A corner of the story veil.

On the whole, the style and context of the trailer are still the same ~www.readwn.com~ However, under the leadership of Charlotte, the second trailer of "Lord of the Rings 1" is in line with this conventional practice. On the contrary, it seems to be a completely different story.

This is a trick that Charlotte learned from the Internet in later generations-

After all, at that time, even "Magic Girl Madoka Magica" could be edited into "Fist of the North Star" without any sense of contradiction.

The trailer of "Interstellar" can be linked with the trailer of "Star Wars 7", making people think that Matthew McConaughey was able to see "Star Wars" again after many years. The story continues and is moved...

Therefore, it is not unusual for two trailers with very different styles to tell the same movie story.

However, in 2001, this technique was still quite new.

Many viewers have also become interested in "Lord of the Rings 1". Even the panic caused by 9/11 seems to have dissipated among the picturesque pastoral scenery of the Shire...