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Immerito, wrote :

How many Lord of the Rings fans (of the book, thank you!) are on Eharmony Advice?


Would anyone be interested in engaging in (book-only) trivia?
Lord of the Rings are the best books in human existence.
- April 10th, 2009, 07:07 pm
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One of the few matches I ever "X ed out" based on her original informationwas obcessed with the Lord of the Rings.
- April 24th, 2009, 09:27 am
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Samwise. After they'd recovered from being brought out of The Land of Shadow.
He was in the Fields of Cormallen, and he'd just woken up in the tent. The first person he saw, I think, was Gandalf (actually, Samwise said that in response to seeing Gandalf, if I remember right, because he thought Gandalf was dead, from falling in Moria because of the Balrog).
- April 24th, 2009, 11:17 am
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Immerito wrote :


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And that's not to say that the movies aren't good. Professor Tolkien was a genius...


Tolkien would have been appalled at the movies; Jackson took far too many liberties with the motivations and personalities of the characters, plot points, and themes of the story.


The book is delightful--Tolkien spent about 20 years of his life writing Lord of the Rings.


Jackson? Not so much.


That's rather hard to assert, being that Tolkien is dead and isn't weighing in one way or the other.


The movies were a very good adaptation of the books, IMHO, when you take into account the realities of commercial filmmaking. Considering that Newline was the only studio who wasn't insisting that the trilogy be condensed into just one 3h film, I'd say we did rather well to get what we got. I've seen the earlier animated single-film adaptation of LOTR. The hack-and-chop of the storyline was horrific.


No film will ever be a 100% accurate adaptation of a book. It's not possible. There are things possible in print that you can't do in film, and vice versa. As-written, LOTR probably would've fleshed out to nine or ten six-hour films, and maybe more. No studio will produce that, especially at the production values we got from Jackson and Newline. Something had to go, and then the story had to be adapted to work around the missing material. That's reality. Some subplots and lower-level character points have to be changed, enhanced, or supressed in order for the edited story to make sense. Granted, some of the changes were done specifically to appeal more to particular paying audiences, but again, this trilogy needed to make a profit, and while there are many Tolkien fans out there, mass-market appeal was the only way to make the money flow in the amounts needed to bring the investors on-board. Is it "right" in a pure sense? No. Is it better than no film adaptation at all? In my mind, yes.


I was pleased to hear that the upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit is going to be broken into two films. Lots of room in two movies to preserve the original storyline in some significant detail.
- April 24th, 2009, 11:34 am
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Immerito wrote :

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i had to read the hobbit in grade nine...barely got through it. not my cup of tea, but the movies were alright!


The book Lord of the Rings is much better than the movies.


If watching the movies of Lord of the Rings is like eatinga McDonalds hamburger, the book is like a grade A steak.
Amen to that. The movies were awesome but there were some things that got left out due to time. I have read the books 4 times and always find something new.
- April 25th, 2009, 11:01 pm
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I am a huge fan of LOTR - read The Hobbit and then the three at the age of 10 and could not put them down - it inspired me to study in Oxford and I have sat in the Eagle and Child pub (known locally as the Bird & Baby) on a rainy winter evening where Tolkien and the other "Inklings" (including CS Lewis) used to sit and read extracts of their books to each other - a magical experience for me

it may sound weird (and not a little sad) but the books inspired me to live my life in a very honourable and couragous fashion - thanks JRR
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Huge Lord of the Rings fan here!
- July 2nd, 2009, 05:14 pm
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I love LOTR. Books & movies both. Some books I can't help buying additional copies of even though my bookshelves are overflowing, and these books fit into that category. There are very few authors out there who have created a unique and completely formed world that a reader feels able to step into by opening the book. Tolkien's love of language itself is apparent & he created some of the most inspiring characters I've read about.
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Yes, I'm a recent LOTR fan. I first tried to read The Fellowship of the Ring when I was about 14/15 and I couldn't finish it. I remember thinking that the story dragged. I didn't give them another go until after I saw the first movie and then I read The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy in three days. It's amazing how much reading you can get done when you are engrossed to the point of exclusion to all else!
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I'm a Lord of the Ring fan. I first read then when I was a senior in high school, in 1965. I don't know how many times I've read them, along with the Hobbit. I thought they did a decent job with the movies. Some liberties were taken and a lot left out and left to the imagination unless you had the books memorized.
How many of you have seen the animated versions of the The Hobbit and the Ring Trilogy? My sister brought me the DVD's for Christmas last year.
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