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[–] [email protected] 84 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think they just did some camera trick to cut out most of the travel time and not make the movie longer.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. They did the same thing in The Lord of the Rings movie. Rivendell is about 300 miles from the Shire. The hobbits leave the Shire at about 40 minutes in, and arrive in Rivendell roughly 35 minutes later. I'm sure they saved time by not stopping for second breakfast, but that would imply traveling 300/35 = 8.6 miles per minute non-stop with their stubby little legs.

Or maybe some people complained the movie was already too long (these people are wrong) and didn't want to watch hobbits walk 300 miles in real time.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is it frodo. If i take one more step it will be the farthest from the shire ive ever been

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You may already know about this, but there's an edit of Fellowship of the Ring where Sam says this line every time he takes another step. It makes the movie over 9 hours long.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Haha yeah i was trying to kinda reference that cut as similar to how watching this imaginary movie would feel. I want to link it so others may appreciate the effort too but Youtube DMCAd it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, no worries. Here is a reuploaded version. Enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Cool, thanks! That was clutch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If they had snipped it down to just him saying those words instead of the whole exchange the joke would have landed even better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it had been a neurotic hobbit, he would've said that with every following step

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Hehe have you seen "version" of the fellowship where every time Sam takes a step on screen it goes back to that moment in the movie? I watched it for like 30 minutes just in awe that someone took the time to create it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I haven't, yet now I must

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

here. it's over 9 hours long

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ty Greg!

[–] dingus 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Now I'm just imagining in every movie or TV show if we had to watch people travel in real time to wherever they were going lol. Sounds painful.

[–] Viking_Hippie 12 points 5 months ago

This one would be a great test of just HOW captivating David Tennant's brilliance is 😄

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

no fast travel run

[–] SkyezOpen 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So they were singing on that carpet for hours.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Time moves differently during a musical number, anyway. They regularly skip forward to the next scene that can be hours or even days away.