Will The Hobbit do damage to the books?

[Tar-Jêx]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

You do see fandoms around book series like Twilight and The Hunger Games, but those seem more like purpose-designed commercial products rather than enduring works of literature. It's just hard to see a future in which books hold their own against high-tech, instant gratification entertainment.

I have kept myself out of pop-culture, but it seems like books are being used being used to make money, rather than to be amazing. This is evident when considering fanfiction being turned into a book, and then a movie (50 Shades of Grey). This sort of mindless rubbish should never be written, because there are very few things a 'book' of that genre can do that visual representations can't.

I do despise these sort of things, where people do it to make money, rather than doing it out of personal enjoyment, or because they want to write high quality novels.


The Hobbit movies are already giving a bad representation of the book, and although people are buying the book, a lot of potential customers have been put of by the money-grab-ness of the movies. If the movies were better, and concise, the books would sell a lot more. I guess it just comes down to how the media is treating literature, and they aren't treating it respectfully.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Tar-Jêx

The Hobbit movies are already giving a bad representation of the book, and although people are buying the book, a lot of potential customers have been put of by the money-grab-ness of the movies. If the movies were better, and concise, the books would sell a lot more. I guess it just comes down to how the media is treating literature, and they aren't treating it respectfully.

To me, one of the main problems with books today is that it seems potential for movie development instantly supersedes any consideration of the books themselves as stand-alone works. And that isn't good enough, either: it's required to mine well-loved books from the past that are well-written and moving, and subject them to the same treatment.

What really saps my hope for the future status of Tolkien's books in the mainstream is uselessness like this:



But hey, if it sells, go for it!

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

You do see fandoms around book series like Twilight.

There are still Twilight fans around..?

Originally Posted by Inziladun

What really saps my hope for the future status of Tolkien's books in the mainstream

The mainstream is an icky place to be anyway. All the sewage ends up there.

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

But it does answer the question "What do they eat when they can't get hobbits?"

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

But it does answer the question "What do they eat when they can't get hobbits?"

Could be that was Galadriels' secret lembas ingredient. Frodo and Sam were running on a sugar high.

[Mister Underhill]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

Yes, we are adrift in a sea of idiots, but in many respects we always have been.

Optimism!

Faces fell, forlorn
Words of doom, green and eerie
Y'all should google cats

*pops a few tabs of Pez of Westernesse*

*tosses a dwarf*

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

*tosses a dwarf*

Hey!

[Mister Underhill]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

Hey!

Only in the name of profit! You can't argue the mass appeal of Dwarf-tossing. Also belching.

*belches*