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**lindil** · 11-12-2003, 01:20 PM

I am much in agreement with you Phantom, but TTT was such a pitiful revision imo, and the Matrix was so incredibly well done, that RotK will have to be essentially perfect [and I will have to skip several especially poor TTT scenes when I watch it] for LotR to surpass The matrix.<P>Of course imo The Legendarium as a [fragmented] whole far surpasses any other work of Co-Creation in Film or text. Tolkien was the master, and the further PJ strays from the story as given, the further away from 'Truth' the movies seem to land.<P>As for the Star Wars movies, I have come to far prefer the many dozens of books describing the post RotJ period. There were some duds, but the characters are far more fleshed out and we get to see Han, Luke and Leia marry, raise kids, suffer many and indeed the most tragic of wounds, and indeed, we get to follow them [through the eyes of many different writers] far closer than we ever see the entiire life of anyone in the Legendarium [the Hapless Turin may be an exception.]<P>But these are for me essentially mind candy, and I have imbalanced my delicte [mental] spleen on more than one occasion by over consumption. Rarely so with Tolkien, with him their is Fiber, enzymes, minerals and a host of other balanced 'nutrients'.

11-12-2003, 01:20 PM	#27
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	I am much in agreement with you Phantom, but TTT was such a pitiful revision imo, and the Matrix was so incredibly well done, that RotK will have to be essentially perfect [and I will have to skip several especially poor TTT scenes when I watch it] for LotR to surpass The matrix.<P>Of course imo The Legendarium as a [fragmented] whole far surpasses any other work of Co-Creation in Film or text. Tolkien was the master, and the further PJ strays from the story as given, the further away from 'Truth' the movies seem to land.<P>As for the Star Wars movies, I have come to far prefer the many dozens of books describing the post RotJ period. There were some duds, but the characters are far more fleshed out and we get to see Han, Luke and Leia marry, raise kids, suffer many and indeed the most tragic of wounds, and indeed, we get to follow them [through the eyes of many different writers] far closer than we ever see the entiire life of anyone in the Legendarium [the Hapless Turin may be an exception.]<P>But these are for me essentially mind candy, and I have imbalanced my delicte [mental] spleen on more than one occasion by over consumption. Rarely so with Tolkien, with him their is Fiber, enzymes, minerals and a host of other balanced 'nutrients'. __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.