meri75 is offline meri75 Post #21  August 29,2009, 3:14am
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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.
Yes, I've seen both animated versions. My extended family is quite large, the adults got them for one family Christmas party which went all weekend. I was quite young at the time, about 12 I think, I remember thinking they were strange movies.
 
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I initially taped them off of cable(HBO if I remember correctly). Then gave them to my sister to help entertain my niece and nephew who were 10 or 12 at the time. When the movie came out I asked her to look for the tapes but they had vanished. I was really surprised when I opened the package last Christmas. If you can find them you ought to watch them again they may not seem so strange now. As I was typing this I started thinking about the live action version of "The Hobbit", and Jack Black as Bilbo Baggins popped into my head. Scary thought.
A couple more animated films you might find interesting are "Watership Down" and "The Last Unicorn" both based on books of the same name.
 
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Under "Books" in my profile "Lord of the Rings" is the first on the list =).

Some of my favorite books of all time. I also started with "The Hobbit" and am really glad I did. It's more of a light-hearted adventure and really sets the stage for the rest of the books. I've read them all many times =).

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In many cases, in the movies, not enough was left to the imagination. Example: Orcs leering in my face...a little too much of the slightly immature middle school boy came through - especially when portraying evil characters, though I must say he did a much better job than I expected. I'm about ready to read the books again, as I've just finished a commentary on the trilogy, with huge footnotes on every page, which whetted my appetite to relive the experience yet again.
 
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Loved all of the LOTR movies, but really couldn't get into the books. Tried with no success. Friends of mine have read them and said that they have read them twenty times over, but I always said, like the Tom Clancy's books, loved the movies better than the books
 
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Vaire1967 wrote :
And that's not to say that the movies aren't good. Professor Tolkien was a genius...

He WAS a freakin' genius!

I have the great fortune of being enrolled in a course right now called "The Works of J. R. R. Tolkien." We started with his scholarly work on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "Sir Orfeo," and "Pearl." Then we read some of his critical essays. Now we're simultaneously doing The Silmarillion, The Lost Road and Other Writings, and The Lord of the Rings.

I don't think people actually understand what an amazing philologist he was. He was one of four people who worked on the last edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, for crying out loud. When it's said, "He created an entire language!" people don't realize that he actually created an entire language. As a teenager, I thought this meant he made up words for things and then strung together sentences and fashioned a nifty type script that makes nice-looking tattoos. But it's so much more than that. The man actually made roots and stems and created declensions and tried to make the language as organic as possible, drawing from his own understanding of mainly Welsh and Finnish.

Okay, I'm having a nerdgasm right now. I need to stop.

I just love Tolkien. A lot.
 
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