What other fantasy books do YOU read?

[Galadriel]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

I haven't experienced that, but I have run into a lot who mix up the movies and books quite badly, even after reading them. I think that's the way things tend to go, with adaptations in general: the version you encounter first becomes, for you, the "true" one, and it can be hard to accept that certain things weren't part of the original.

True. But for the life of me, the Bakshi film just didn't settle into my brain as a 'true' version
It's just that people like the films /so/ much, sometimes they have difficulty reading the book, because it's much less action-packed, and more like something that has to be savoured.