Did you see the movies or read the books first? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Tar-Palantir · 02-08-2003, 11:50 AM

Books for me started in 1982, movies in 2001. Reading the Hobbit for the first time (when I was 10, LotR at 12) was magical and something that was quite personal to me. Just what the doctor ordered. I am so glad it didn't come utterly surrounded by the crass commercialization like the books/films are today. That would certainly have taken much of the magic from the experience. When I read those books the first time, I had no knowledge of anyone else who had and for a very long while it was my secret adventure. Quite certainly, I'd rather have that memory than one of seeing the movie and then having to read the book to find out 'what really happened'.

I'm am not insinuating that the books are diminished by seeing the movies first, just that my experience of reading them would have been.
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02-08-2003, 11:50 AM	#11
Tar-Palantir Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: napa valley, ca Posts: 496	Books for me started in 1982, movies in 2001. Reading the Hobbit for the first time (when I was 10, LotR at 12) was magical and something that was quite personal to me. Just what the doctor ordered. I am so glad it didn't come utterly surrounded by the crass commercialization like the books/films are today. That would certainly have taken much of the magic from the experience. When I read those books the first time, I had no knowledge of anyone else who had and for a very long while it was my secret adventure. Quite certainly, I'd rather have that memory than one of seeing the movie and then having to read the book to find out 'what really happened'. I'm am not insinuating that the books are diminished by seeing the movies first, just that my experience of reading them would have been. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [ February 08, 2003: Message edited by: Tar-Palantir ] __________________ History shows again and again How nature points up the folly of men Go, go, Godzilla!