Before and after the movie

[greyhavener]

The movie impacted me more as a mother than as a LOTR fan. I've reread the Hobbit and the trilogy about once a year for the past twenty four years because I enjoy them and get something new from them each time.

Because of the movie my kids became LOTR fans, the little one even had me redo his room with a sort of Elvin motif. He was not satisfied knowing that there is more in the book than the movie and did not want to wait three years to have the whole story, so I ended up reading the Hobbit and LOTR aloud to this eight-year-old. In answering his questions and also through the perspective of experiencing LOTR as a spoken work, I gained so much insight into Tolkien and truth. Now my child is attempting to read LOTR himself...quite a challenge for someone his age. Meanwhile I've read the Silm and am working my way through HoME. This deeper interest has been inspired by the Barrowdowns. My child was the one who actually found the Barrowdowns when he was searching the net for Gollum riddles. We both enjoy different parts of it. He loves the art.

We both agree that there are different advantages to seeing the movie, hearing the book, and reading the book and that we get different insights from each medium because different senses are impacted.

I loved the movie overall and look forward to seeing the other installments.

[ July 19, 2002: Message edited by: greyhavener ]