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Kaiserin · 08-05-2003, 06:51 PM

The original books are ALWAYS better than the movie adaptations - that's my opinion, at least. The LOTR movies were great, of course, but they don't even come close to the splendour of the books. I'm sure a lot of you out there would agree. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

A lot of people prefer the movies of course. Maybe I'm arrogant to say this - but the wonder of the book isn't just because of the skill of the author; much of it depends on the reader's imagination... meaning to say if somebody says that "the books are s2pid" then he's probably the stupid one because his brain is too puny to contain all the wonderful stuff Tolkien intended to convey. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] (I'm just being arrogant, of course!) The movies were just interpretations of something that already exists, right? But then, they're the interpretation of another Tolkien fan, (PJ)so I'm sure PJ didn't at all intend to "massacre" the work of the master.

08-05-2003, 06:51 PM	#18
Kaiserin Wight Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Cair Paravel Posts: 150	The original books are ALWAYS better than the movie adaptations - that's my opinion, at least. The LOTR movies were great, of course, but they don't even come close to the splendour of the books. I'm sure a lot of you out there would agree. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] A lot of people prefer the movies of course. Maybe I'm arrogant to say this - but the wonder of the book isn't just because of the skill of the author; much of it depends on the reader's imagination... meaning to say if somebody says that "the books are s2pid" then he's probably the stupid one because his brain is too puny to contain all the wonderful stuff Tolkien intended to convey. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] (I'm just being arrogant, of course!) The movies were just interpretations of something that already exists, right? But then, they're the interpretation of another Tolkien fan, (PJ)so I'm sure PJ didn't at all intend to "massacre" the work of the master. __________________ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.