Popularity of LOTR... How sad... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lachwen · 09-10-2004, 10:36 PM

Don't bash the movies too hard, Eorl. Lyta_Underhill has it right: the movies, despite their inaccuracies and hordes of screaming LOTR-geeks, have also brought around a new crowd of die-hards. Myself included. When I saw Fellowship of the Ring the first time, my total expreience with Tolkien was having read The Hobbit six years previously. Now, four years later, I am so very glad the movies came out, because they made me aware of a beautifully rich and complex world of literature. Had the movies not been made, I might still be ignorant of Tolkien's work. And that would be truly sad.

09-10-2004, 10:36 PM	#30
Lachwen Wight Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Greenwood the Great. Posts: 115	Don't bash the movies too hard, Eorl. Lyta_Underhill has it right: the movies, despite their inaccuracies and hordes of screaming LOTR-geeks, have also brought around a new crowd of die-hards. Myself included. When I saw Fellowship of the Ring the first time, my total expreience with Tolkien was having read The Hobbit six years previously. Now, four years later, I am so very glad the movies came out, because they made me aware of a beautifully rich and complex world of literature. Had the movies not been made, I might still be ignorant of Tolkien's work. And that would be truly sad. __________________ "'...Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.'"