Films gain major convert

[Lord Gothmog]

Originally Posted by zxcvbn

Lord Gothmog, you'll find that many of the greatest fans of Tolkien's works are also fans of the movies, and many even helped in their making. Alan Lee, John Howe, David Salo, Michael Martinez, Ted Nasmith etc. And as for Christopher Tolkien, to the best of my knowledge he's never even watched the films, so I don't believe his opinion of them is wholly justified.

I am well aware that "many of the greatest fans of Tolkien's works are also fans of the movies" and I have no problem with that (though I would change 'greatest' to 'well known' and would include in the list Christopher Lee ). I formed my opinion of the films after I saw them and while I am not a "Fan" I did enjoy two of them at least.

As for Christopher Tolkien, he is as entitled to his view as anyone else. I would take the same note of his opinion of the films as I would any other.

When I said

From what I have seen in threads about the films is that many of the opinions were set in stone before the films were even started, let alone released.

I was refering to the fact that many who argued on threads about the films either as "Purists" or "Filimies" simply continued with the same unchanged views.

I will say that the majority of posters on such threads I have seen did wait to see the films first though.