<BR> Re: What?</b><br><br> My greatest fear for the movies is that those who watch the movies first and then go buy the books to read will be disapointed. "but its nothing like the movie!" they will say. and it shouldnt be. in most cases, any book is better than the movie, but those who read the book afterwards already have a preconcieved notion of what will happen. and most of the time, they are wrong. because there will be so much taken out of the story and shuffled about to create such a great movie that the new reader will be dissapointed in what they find in tolkiens work. it just upsets me that the work wont be read for the love of the printed words, but for the love of the bloody action on the screen. no one can replace tolkiens writings, because they are something that each person who reads them holds deep within them. and you cant try to change that by spending millions of dollars to give a new version of the writing. we all know what we love most about tolkiens works, and seeing the movie wont change it. sure it may make us mad at the director and actors, but we will not stop reading tolkien. because the love for it was already stowed inside of us. hows that for philosophical? <p>The Road goes ever on and on </p>
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