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SpM:Mind you, I do find myself once more reduced to a state of confusion. I can understand those who are angered by the films because they view the book as a “sacred text” that should not have been tinkered with in the way that it was. But most people here seem to adopt the “I loved the films BUT …” approach. That I don’t understand. If you loved the films, why spoil your enjoyment by picking them apart? Why not enjoy them for what they are?
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Because what they are, enters my porus mind and fight's with the stories that I know better than the texts of my own Faith and I have read many year before I converted, and a minature battle ensues, which thusly disturbs my heart.
I would rather be able to completely segregate Denethor and 'Denethor' but alas, few things in this world are pure...
I think that the more a person has ritulaized or made the M-E archetypes one's own, as any community does with a myth, the more any 'tampering' is felt as a negative. For those to whom LotR was 'a great story', the movies may well be ' a great movie' or even a fantastic one [my wiife loved ROtK but may well never read the books
and is thus a perfect example of th 'pure PJ fan' her appreciation has no books to contend with.
But for those to whom the Legendarium has taken the palce of myth, if not sacred writ, as it has admittedly for me, they seem to have rather less pure enjoymnent of the movies. Big generalizations but...
Of course, there is no right or wrong response to the movies, but it is fascinating to try and understand why we feel what we do.
my personal solution seems to have been too stop watching the movies.
But I still enjoy coming here to serve back to PJ exactly what I experienced
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