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Encaitare · 07-27-2004, 01:57 PM

I wish I had read the whole trilogy before seeing the movie, but what's done is done.

I tried to read FotR when I was about 12 and the pacing was just too slow-- I got bored and didn't pick it up. Then I saw the movies of FotR and TTT, and thought they were amazing. I didn't have the strength of will to wait another year to find out what happened, so I went and read the whole trilogy.

And thus an obsession and a sudden pasty quality to my skin from sitting around doing dorky LotR-related things (ie: learning Quenya) were born.

Not that there's anything wrong with that sort of thing

But, yeah, book before movie is always better.

07-27-2004, 01:57 PM	#21
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	I wish I had read the whole trilogy before seeing the movie, but what's done is done. I tried to read FotR when I was about 12 and the pacing was just too slow-- I got bored and didn't pick it up. Then I saw the movies of FotR and TTT, and thought they were amazing. I didn't have the strength of will to wait another year to find out what happened, so I went and read the whole trilogy. And thus an obsession and a sudden pasty quality to my skin from sitting around doing dorky LotR-related things (ie: learning Quenya) were born. Not that there's anything wrong with that sort of thing But, yeah, book before movie is always better.