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JerryC wrote :
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.
- August 29th, 2009, 04:14 am
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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.
- August 29th, 2009, 07:32 pm
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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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