Will The Hobbit do damage to the books? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mithalwen · 11-23-2012, 04:30 PM

You have high hopes others have deep fears. They are entitled to express them eapecially as a part of a well structured post.

I don't plan on seeing the films in cinema but I am not worried about the books. Lord of the RIngs was voted book of the century bafore the films came out and The Hobbit is one of the dozen books bookshops always have in stock and IIRC has never gone out of print.

alatar · 11-23-2012, 04:46 PM

The Hobbit is much more childish than LotR or the Sil, and so why not have a lot more fun with the film?

I can't repeatedly reread it like I can the other books - The Hobbit's that different, and it's possible that as I've aged I've left it behind.

So I will see the films - you never know.

Inziladun · 11-23-2012, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by alatar

The Hobbit is much more childish than LotR or the Sil, and so why not have a lot more fun with the film?

It's true that The Hobbit is on a different level than LOTR, but that shouldn't give PJ license to overtly dumb down the story; make it indistinguishable from the Eragons and other "modern" stories.
There's a distinction between chilish and childlike, and I don't think the film makers get that.

11-23-2012, 04:30 PM	#1
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	You have high hopes others have deep fears. They are entitled to express them eapecially as a part of a well structured post. I don't plan on seeing the films in cinema but I am not worried about the books. Lord of the RIngs was voted book of the century bafore the films came out and The Hobbit is one of the dozen books bookshops always have in stock and IIRC has never gone out of print. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

11-23-2012, 04:46 PM	#2
alatar Doubting Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Heaven's basement Posts: 2,466	The Hobbit is much more childish than LotR or the Sil, and so why not have a lot more fun with the film? I can't repeatedly reread it like I can the other books - The Hobbit's that different, and it's possible that as I've aged I've left it behind. So I will see the films - you never know. __________________ There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it.

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