why do people dislike lord of the rings? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Morgul Queen · 03-24-2003, 07:48 PM

a WEEK and a HALF!!!!!!! mine is 18 hours [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] but anyway, back to the topic, people today are so focused on being 'COOL' that they don't thimk about anything else, here in NZ we have a ratio of teachers:students at 1:43 (or something like that) and at least 60% of those are over 55 years old....which shows no-body wants to do something that makes you think at a level above staring blindly at a screen! Some people, especially 9-10 year old boys (no offence) can be very unforgiving. One when I was 8 and at that point I was reading Stephen King books I had this book that was 1000+ pages (cant remember the name, the hounds of something or other) and I was waylaid on the way home (i walk), I had my bag taken and thrown over a fence and I was beaten up simply for being "a geek". To repeat something that has cropped up a lot, most people are scared of what they don't understand and because of that I was pushed around and people who touched my would yell out something about having "Seanne germs" (yes thats my real name but don't tell *shhhhhh*) these people are the same ones that call me a freak for liking Tolkien and then when the movies came out called me a "blender".

03-24-2003, 07:48 PM	#11
Morgul Queen Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Dontgonearthe Castle Posts: 414	a WEEK and a HALF!!!!!!! mine is 18 hours [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] but anyway, back to the topic, people today are so focused on being 'COOL' that they don't thimk about anything else, here in NZ we have a ratio of teachers:students at 1:43 (or something like that) and at least 60% of those are over 55 years old....which shows no-body wants to do something that makes you think at a level above staring blindly at a screen! Some people, especially 9-10 year old boys (no offence) can be very unforgiving. One when I was 8 and at that point I was reading Stephen King books I had this book that was 1000+ pages (cant remember the name, the hounds of something or other) and I was waylaid on the way home (i walk), I had my bag taken and thrown over a fence and I was beaten up simply for being "a geek". To repeat something that has cropped up a lot, most people are scared of what they don't understand and because of that I was pushed around and people who touched my would yell out something about having "Seanne germs" (yes thats my real name but don't tell shhhhhh) these people are the same ones that call me a freak for liking Tolkien and then when the movies came out called me a "blender". __________________ Athrabeth is still doing the wave for Boromir the Disco-King Oh...and call me Morgy!