What did the movies do for you?

Originally Posted by ninja91

Who said its over? Look at this forum! It has only just gotten started...

Over, LOL. It's been, well, let's just say since the 60s since I first read (and re-read, & learned the Tengwar, & etc etc etc) these books. ALL of these books, of course, not just LOTR. I'm thinking there will be Tolkien forums when all of us are dead and buried.

I love these films. I know Jackson took liberties. I wish he'd used more of the songs from LOTR - he did at least used Tolkien's Road goes Ever On I could have done without the opera-cloaked elves at Helm's Deep (couldn't we have had the Rangers? ) And of course I would have loved for each film to have been 6 hours long each so all the stuff could have been included...LOL

But these were films. Think of it as a mythological body of works that Tolkien chronicled, instead of 'this way & only this way' This is easier to do after reading the Lost Tales and the Silmarillion (talk about variations on a theme - it is VERY much like reading all the different versions of Greek myths). Jackson made the actual PLACE come alive, then did his own slightly different take on the myths.
That's how I look at the films - and therefor I can love them entirely, sob my way thru them (yes, I do, my children call me a geek, ~sigh~) and still read and adore Tolkien himself.

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