Do you think Tolkien would be insulted by the LOTR movies? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Only Real Estel · 01-13-2004, 09:39 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>it was 200 miles away and hidden in a ravine. I can see no pictorial or story-making gain in needlessly contracting the geography.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Sounds like a complaint about RotK to me .<P>Seriously, guys, I don't think that Tolkien would go for the movies solely because they've sold more of his books, or because lotr is now all over the place. I think he'd be more insulted by the shamless mass merchandising (like I said before) than by the movies themselves. Really, I'm sure J.R.R. would appreciate that they sold more of his books, & maybe he'd like one or two of the merchandising stuff (swords, etc.), but I think selling more copies of his book would not increase his opinion towards the movies. And I still think that he'd not be insulted by them, but that he wouldn't like them.

01-13-2004, 09:39 AM	#11
The Only Real Estel Raffish Rapscallion Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-( Posts: 2,835	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>it was 200 miles away and hidden in a ravine. I can see no pictorial or story-making gain in needlessly contracting the geography.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Sounds like a complaint about RotK to me .<P>Seriously, guys, I don't think that Tolkien would go for the movies solely because they've sold more of his books, or because lotr is now all over the place. I think he'd be more insulted by the shamless mass merchandising (like I said before) than by the movies themselves. Really, I'm sure J.R.R. would appreciate that they sold more of his books, & maybe he'd like one or two of the merchandising stuff (swords, etc.), but I think selling more copies of his book would not increase his opinion towards the movies. And I still think that he'd not be insulted by them, but that he wouldn't like them.