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  • This is probably the best fanfilm out there...along one batman fanfilm. Really amazing work, IMHO more close to the books themes and tone than the Jackson films which I know you love, but really you did better with much less. kudos.

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  • they should make one about the men of the east with the olephents

  • cant wait for a movie about the simarillion

  • Amazing, simply amazing. I love the movie. If you can do something this good with such a low budget why do so many high budget movie suck so hard?

  • omg this is so gooooood trailer

  • noo, don't ruin the LOTR!

  • how about everyone just says thanks for the free movie? Why does everyone have to be such negative bitches!

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  • LOVE IT! I can't say it enough! truly an amazing masterpiece! I love the staging of the shots as well!

  • i think these films are very well done and well portrayed considereing the low budget. also i am very happy fans make these movies to such a quality that it could be shown the the cinima. these are great films that help fans who havn't read the books make sense of the world of tolkin

  • Wow, great trailer and amazing monster effects. I had never heard about this until a couple days ago, I remembered seeing The Hunt for Gollum about a year ago and thought I would watch it again, and I just saw that the makers of that advertised your movie. The music was really beautiful too, reminded me of the track Samwise the Brave from The Two Towers.

  • lord of the ring is better

  • i dont know why but this movie has a LARP feeling in it, and not a movie feeling... donno XD

  • looks exactly like lord of the rings

  • For how much they had, the quality of the movie was amazing!!! Not to mention the acting and the storyline. I absolutely loved this movie a 100000000% and will recommend it to anyone and everyone!!

  • The quality for this considering the cost is amazing I love how the title of the movie reflects how this movie came about. Born of hope indeed. It's galling to think that some truly awful movies got masses of cash thrown at them but this was made with only £25,000 I hope the actress behind this gets a lot more support for future endeavours since she's so truly sincere about her work.

  • Guys you have to remember before you strongly criticize this trailer/film that they aren't big Hollywood actors and producers, you would think this was made by one. So just remember don't troll unless you can make something better.

  • Anyone who says independent low budget films are crappy can suck my dick. Wow, I loved this (and I'm extremely critical).

    I don't even know how you could get the motivation for such a giant project. Wonderfull, just wonderful

  • Wonderful job! Thank you so much for doing this! I think this is really what Tolkien intended for others to take on, once he had laid the ground work. As a real Middle Earth addict, this definitely adds fuel to the fire. More, please!

  • This is actually pretty good! I think you have skills!

  • Brilliant!

  • The film was very well done. Actors at Work did a great job!

  • some kinda remako of the lord of the rings??

  • . "Born of Hope" Mercyyyyy! Awful movie. Poor production. The real thing is on its way... I hope Jackson and the rest of the cast will film and Silmarillion...

  • This movie and The Hunt for Gollum bought me back to LOTR era... now that we know that there are going to be The Hobbit movie in 2 parts, its even better...

    ive watched LOTR trilogy countless times, and i still watch them hoping The Hobbit are even better...

  • The lord of the ring?

  • i watched this and it was so impressive! definitly a must watch movie :)

  • What is the music in this trailer? It's awesome...

  • I absolutely loved it!

  • Bit unfair as this is a trailer which u conducted in ur own time before the release of the competition then submits it as something u made for ONLY the competition.

    Do i make sence?

  • @ThisPersonSaid I understand but I did read all the rules I could find and it never actually said you can only submit a trailer that was made between the 1st and 29th October 2010 so I thought I'd try. I expect the guys at FX Home may well think the same as you but I'd rather be rejected than miss out on such a great prize.

  • @ActorsatWork what are you guys talking about .. prize ?! .. there is acutally a prize for self made trailers pls explain .

  • good luck

  • WOW! I really really appreciated seeing this movie. It was incredible! Great acting and story and settings, you name it...this was a genious masterpiece. Thanks so much for making this available for hungry fans like myself. It was incredible and a unique view of the lives of the Isildur's masters...I'm amazed!

  • Awesome movie. These guys did a spectacular job from actors to directors, etc....

  • will we see Legolas again? awww xD ^^

  • I enjoyed this film immensely. Great job :)

  • @DesertRoses

    Yeah, but do watch it!! Trust me, if you liked LOTR you will love this!!

  • Wow!!! This looks so professional!!! I'm gonna have to watch the movie when I get a chance!!! At first glance this looks awesome!!! =D

  • @DesertRoses

    it is awsome!! i have watched it twice alreaady.. :D

  • @Aragelgalawen lol. I'm gonna save the movie for when I need a break from school and watch it.

  • This is a wonderful film.

  • wats the setting of this upcoming independent film?

  • My God people are stupid.

    Does everyone in Hollywood have, as the wise Dollarbob put it, a "nerdy obsession"? Does one need to be a nerd or obsessed to use their imagination?

    Seriously, shut the fuck up unless you can do better. I've seen far worse movies than this and they had much bigger budgets.

    Go back to the wasted, pathetic, self-righteous shit hole that is the life you haven't done anything creative with, and keep on pretending you're some sort of expert on films.

  • @xXCamillaFawnXx Couldn't have said it better myself! Right on, CamillaFawn!

  • fake lotr

  • @zakafire

    thats because it is NOT lotr.. Its Born of HOpe...!!

  • is this part of lord of the rings or somtin????

  • OMG this is so cool!!! Well done to the creators of this wonderful piece of work, I really hope that you will get awarded for your hard work you put into this and hope you will carry on making such great pieces of work such as this.

  • Awesome!

  • exellent work

  • I just watched the full film and it was a triumph, the Actors are most certainly at work, there were several moments when i forgot i was watching a low budget film and wished that i could have been included in its production. Well done all of you, truly well done.

  • muy buen trabajo, CONGRATULATIONS!!

  • cool orc

  • I´ve just seen it with german subtitels and I must say:

    I LOVE IT!!!

    Yes, he really is our hope. And sooo cute, the little Aragorn!!!

    Tolkien would be proud.

    Well done Kate Madison (or should I say El?)

  • Lord of the rings copy

  • Gorgeous. Which song is this, by the way? I can't quite place it.

  • good work ^__^

  • @dudina83 You can download the soundtrack on the Born of Hope web site!

  • I really don't see any worth in this venture other than "I made a movie blah blah blah". You saw what Peter Jackson did and copied it. You've added nothing. You've created nothing. In fact you've taken a great big stinking poo on Lord Of The Rings, you've soiled it's greatness with your lack of imagination and self indulgent backslapping

  • Looks beautiful

  • I love the song... Makes me weep... OMG... What's it called? I can't believe everybody's criticising everything.... listen to the music!

  • I love the song... Makes me weep... OMG... What's it called? I can't believe everybody's criticising everything.... listen to the music!

  • this is almost exactly like lord of the rings!.......?

  • it's brilliant but sad...the only things that could in my opinion be changed, are the ring of barahir, it looks so corny and second: when arathorn dies, it resembles boromir's death, however, it's good how he fight's on. brilliant way to keep the story going. 50/5 stars everything lotr!!! remember, don't be a fool of a took

  • The movie was great and thanks to everyone who was involved in making it in any way. :)

    That being said, if I could make few positive remarks:

    1-when Arathorn is in the orc cave, one of the orcs has pristine white teeth xD and the chief orc has white hands when he's picking the rings lol

    2-when someone is looking in the distance, I can actually see it's a background image of fields or mountains in front of the character, more special effects are needed to achieve depth of field

    That's all. ;)

  • This Tralier never gets boring!

  • after watching this movie :... good effort on story and custom estr .... but the real dunedain dont fight like theas fagie actors . not passion , no blood lust , just fagie stage acting ... and most the lines are delivered in Shakespearean verse , witch ruins a lote of it . stupid fagie actors .

    but clearly a lote of love went in to this so 5 out of 5 all round because of effort . most people who like the LOTR will like this too i think .

  • I really enjoyed this movie because it gave an other layer to the story I felt they did a really brilliant job of working with what they had ESPECIALLY because their budget was considerably less then the Trilogy

  • Epic! And all you jealous people out there: Shut up and let them be! Come on, it's a fan production! They don't try to be better than PJ, they never did! Kate did a really fantastic job and all those actors in "Born of hope" are an amanzing choice!

  • Nice job guys excellent!

  • this was a great short movie!!!! thought it was far more superior than the hunt for gollum!

  • Yeah, really nice ! Is there a french traduction of the film ?

  • great!! love the soundtrack at 1:00

  • I think we should give them credit, the movie looks good for £25,000 and plus its free to watch come on!! I cant wait for the hobbit, so these fan based movies just helps us until we get to the main event.

    I like to say fan made based movie of the Matrix too.

  • In what way have I censored all criticism? Feel free to scroll down and read all the criticism you want to. There are plenty of Trolls on YouTube to slag off people they have never met and their hard work. It will only have been removed if enough youtube users have given it a thumbs down. Slag away, if you must. However, that is certainly not "classy".

  • @ActorsatWork you know saying what you wrote, is basically......begging for people not to put thumbs down, anyway......

  • Very nice. What program did you use to create the Cave Troll if you don't mind my asking

    Would I be right to assume 3DS Max, or Maya perhaps?

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  • ¡Enhorabuena! Really interesting! :)

    Belfrahn, puedes verlo en la página que viene en la descripción del vídeo.

  • Congratulations... As some people said back in Spain, there're loads of pictures which had a huge budget and were a big fat crap,

    This is an independent picture and it's become huge on the internet.

  • ¡Felicidades!

    Congratulations from Spain, this looks amazing. Where can I see the full film?

  • i think it is an amazing film...

    very good...and it could be an scene from the lord of the rings xD

  • if there was more sponsorship it would be an even more awesome movie!!!!

  • my bff is in it

  • bff - blue-faced friend?

  • bff = best friend forever

  • silly

  • good idea but the movie would be awesome with more effects and that costs money

  • Amazing tralier, just amazing! Just ignor these idiots who say petty, stupid comments.....

  • Fair point, but have you seen the film or just the trailer? They are very different things and show fights in a different way. This is not meant to be LOTRs, that's been done, it is a low budget character based prequel, deliberately filmed in the same style as PJs films. I don't think I wasted my money. Most people seem to love the film and I doubt I'd have nearly 1 million views if I'd done an original film as my first feature.

  • This movie is right up there with Peter Jackson's LotR. Same yet different, that's why I love it.

    I would not be surprised that if 6 years from now this movie grew to be so famous that someone makes a fan film based on this, just as this was a fan film based on LotR.

    Finally found another movie that's comparable with LotR.

    You have my thanks, Kate, for making this.

  • @jimmyzhanneutron

    can't agree more.. :)

  • @ActorsatWork brilliant answer!! Thumbs up to you and your crew!! Its one of the best movies i have seen!! and there is no exageration in that!!

    Keep up the good work!! :)

  • To critique the fight scenes in an honest way may have had some merit - I think it would still be lame, but at least you would have a leg to stand on. There are a few things that are clear from your post: 1 - you have not watched the entire film, only the trailer. 2 - you are jealous of what has been created and what a person following their dreams can actually accomplish. To say she wasted her money on a "nerdy obsession" shows how little you actually get what has happened here. You lose.

  • @Dollarbob lol dude its a fan film, they dont have all these million dollars to spend on crazy special effects to make the fight scenes better, besides i thought it was a great movie and they did really good

  • god. this isawesome. she must be a film

    maker in hollywood

  • My god, this looks amazing....I discovered this while surfing the interent, and read a small paragraph discussing the budget and the director, who is an 'amatuer'?? I have high hopes for you Kate! This looks amazing!!! Well done!!

  • lol six years after the return of the king born of hope takes you make to middle earth. 8 months after hunt for gollum. there both awesome. And if any lord of the rings fan is bored out there, "halifirien" is like the teen age version, don't watch it if you don't like fight scenes tho lol

  • i hope peter make a new lotr conquest..

  • saldrá con subtitulos?

  • Espero que si, tiene buena pinta por lo que veo.

    La saga es maravillosa, a la espera estoy de que se estrene la de el HOBBIT que esta rodando robert rodriguez :D

  • please dont

  • Such a limited budget and such an amazing work (L)

  • wow.i just heard the director getting interviewed on BBc's the strand and man,i was blown away.she managed to do this with such limited number of resources and it came out great!!!this i sick

  • Chingados, cual es el pedo con este wey?

  • Amazing work with limited budget...You are very talented. Keep on working hard and I'm sure you'll progress and go far in the industry.

    Salute!

  • You can't compare a mid range HD dv camera like the RED ONE to something like an ARRI 35mm camera. They are in a different world all together. You obviously don't work in the film industry. How many cinema released features have you been on that use a RED? All the ones I have been on use a 35mm. The RED belongs where it is used, in high end commercials and low budget feature films such as the one above. The Arriflex D-20 costs about 50 times more than a RED ONE, and that is excluding a lense.

  • @shootacop2kill District 9 was filmed with the RED ONE. So was The Book of Eli.

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  • NERDS!

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  • What about Eowyn you muppet? Or Galadriel? Not all Middle-earth females are "damsels in distress". This film is far closer to the books than Jackson's films.

  • The message today seems to be that if women don't display masculine strength then they're weak or "damsels in distress". What a load of BS. There are many types of strength beyond the obvious and crude strength good for combat where women can't even begin to compete. Women are capable of their own strength, made more noble precisely because of their physical limitations.

  • @CaptainStern2  well said

  • Ye you've got Eowyn resembling the Buffy archetype somewhat, but Tolkien gave a satisfying explanation as to why she was that way and why it clearly wasn't the norm. Galadriel's power and strength had nothing to do with being good with a sword. If you knew anything about LOTR then you'd know that.

  • here fucking here!

  • I find it amazing all those who have nothing better to do but put down or criticize this work. I didn't realise there were so many jealous people out there. Give the lady credit where it's due. Or better yet, put up or shut up.

  • I still cannot understand where the millions of dollars go in Hollywood films. I think that is for snob actors who can't actually act! Look at this it was made for 25k. You get the idea and you get the story, what else do you need?

  • The fact that the crew worked for free, or the fact when condensed down it took half the time a full feature does. The fact they haven't spent hundreds of thousands on global marketing, or the fact A list stars wern't used. The list goes on. Educate yourself.

  • Wow mate thanks for educating me, I'd be completely lost without your help. Like I said there are millions of actors that are more talented than the A list "actors". They spend 40 million dollars on Tom Cruise! I can find a better actor on the street than he is. That is what I cannot understand. And the RED camera can do wonders these days.

  • looks good and impressive but its a blatant rip off of peter jacksons interpretation...wouldnt it of been better to create an original interpretation?

  • While she could have made it more original, she has clearly stated that Peter Jackson's films were very inspiring to her, and that they "blew her away". I think perhaps she thought his idea seemed accurate and wanted to stick with it. I don't think she's doing it in any way but to show admiration for his vision of the books. The films are the reason she started this in the first place.

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  • @SuperFairyTigerRobbo ROFL thats the funniest shit i ever heard! I love u!!!

  • As stated by Beastilog, this cost 25K. Peter Jackson had a multi-million dollar budget behind him. In fairness, I'm sure I could put together a decent production for that amount and some common sense. Give credit where credit is due. In this case, it's clearly due!!!

  • I don't see how anyone could criticize this. Even if it does copy some of Peter Jackson's original work, it's done very well and for a first attempt by an amateur using all her own money I think it's a fantastic achievement. I hope to see more from this young film maker in the future.

  • this only cost £25,000. Fair play to them, dont take things so seriously!:)

  • @SuperFairyTigerRobbo F.U.C.K. Y.O.U.

  • @anthonychico19 promises promises :)

  • wow, I'm very impressed. Great cinematography, great use of costumes, themes, and music. I'll be interested to see how far this goes!

  • for someone who spent so little on this film....................astoni­shing !!!!

    Amazing what someone can do when their determination is high.

  • Nice work but i prefer the hunt for Gollum:)

  • Looks good, you guys have done a great job!!!

    Well done!!!

  • Looks fairly good considering the low budget and limited resources. However I think comments from the media about it being serious competition to Guillermo del Torro's Hobbit film are pushing it a bit.

  • Well done!

  • I love the logo ;d

  • OMG...

  • sooouuuunnnnds... Reasonable

  • Looks pretty good to me and done out on their own,,,you cannot fault it!!!!

  • That is a horrible comment, maybe one day if you do get cancer you won't use it so lightly. . .not saying i hope you do i would never wish anyone to have it but just think before you say stuff like that, god!

  • @Tieris

    Shut up, mate. Don't be an ass.

    I think it looks marvelous!

  • @Tieris After seeing the camera quality you film and upload to your account with this seems like bluray in comparison

    Protip; if you're going to insult someone make sure you aren't doing the same thing. Especially if you're doing the same thing even worse than you accuse them of doing

  • @Tieris Your videos are trash and if you like to talk bluntly about "Born of Hope", I'd like to see you make a movie that would be comparable to it.

  • @peeonatree I don't make piss poor, over ambitious or pretencious films. They are just recordings of day to day things. However... with a small budget of a few hundred pounds and a semi decent mobile phone camrea, I could and would knock out a clip that would excel this pile of horse faeces, in both hits a likablility.

    To lay claim to one of the most successful films triliogies and books of all time with this mockery...

  • @Tieris Well, have at it, then. Let's see your magnum opus.

  • @Tieris

    come on!! I think the movie rocks. .to give credit for what they have done is partly your responsibility too!!

  • @Tieris Use better grammer please. You don't sound like a decent film critic if that is all you can say, give reasons why it looks terrible. Just saying it looks rubbish makes you sound stupid and childish and is no help to the creators of the film.

    Personally I like it, looks great for £25,000. Well done, keep it up!

  • This is outstanding. I LOVE TLOTR and I am glad others do also.

  • A New Hope?

  • Holy balls this looks amazing.

  • You total and utter twat. Lets see you master film production,the entire process, from pre to post and complete a project of this scale, to this level with hardly any budget and then we'll read your worthless piss of a comment.

  • Calm down obsidian remember this person spent their life savings to make this movie totally by themselves, certainly better than most other amateur efforts.

  • It appears not to suck like most fan films but then again I can't hear the dialogue.

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  • @Immortal1121 You are completely wrong, its about the birth of Aragorn and about the life of his father Arathorn ^^ I watched it and i like it ^^

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