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Rosa Underhill · 03-06-2002, 01:48 PM

Christopher strikes me as being a bit like his father and I don't think J.R.R. really would have approved of the films either. I'm reading "On Fairy Stories" right now and I'm at the part where he says literature is a much truer form of fantasy than anything one could do visually, like movies, plays and illistrations, no matter how believable. The only reason Bakshi had the LotR film rights was because, at some point, J.R.R. had to sell them to pay off a debt. Poor guy. (Tolkien, not Bakshi. I have no pity for that man, not only for what he did to LotR but for further spreading the illusion that all "furries" are perverts. Stupid Fritz the cat or whatever his name was!)

03-06-2002, 01:48 PM	#11
Rosa Underhill Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Waymeet, the Shire Posts: 297	Christopher strikes me as being a bit like his father and I don't think J.R.R. really would have approved of the films either. I'm reading "On Fairy Stories" right now and I'm at the part where he says literature is a much truer form of fantasy than anything one could do visually, like movies, plays and illistrations, no matter how believable. The only reason Bakshi had the LotR film rights was because, at some point, J.R.R. had to sell them to pay off a debt. Poor guy. (Tolkien, not Bakshi. I have no pity for that man, not only for what he did to LotR but for further spreading the illusion that all "furries" are perverts. Stupid Fritz the cat or whatever his name was!) __________________ WWAHD? (What would a Hobbit do?)