How did you find LOTR?? The movie first or the book. - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

03-04-2002, 09:01 PM

First read <I>The Hobbit</I> in 1966, then <I>Lord of the Rings</I> the year after. Reread the books many times in high school and college, then left them alone for nearly thirty years. I just read them again for the first time since seeing the movie, and must say that they are every bit as good as memory indicates. Never thought a movie could be made from the books, but Peter Jackson has done a good job. I could wish that his horror background hadn't led him to spend so much time on Saruman and the Uruk-Hai at the expense of many other story elements, but anyone who made this movie would have had to cut something.

03-04-2002, 09:01 PM	#1
Orn the Witless Guest Posts: n/a	First read <I>The Hobbit</I> in 1966, then <I>Lord of the Rings</I> the year after. Reread the books many times in high school and college, then left them alone for nearly thirty years. I just read them again for the first time since seeing the movie, and must say that they are every bit as good as memory indicates. Never thought a movie could be made from the books, but Peter Jackson has done a good job. I could wish that his horror background hadn't led him to spend so much time on Saruman and the Uruk-Hai at the expense of many other story elements, but anyone who made this movie would have had to cut something.