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Mithalwen · 08-29-2012, 03:33 PM

This is a "Comment" piece in today's Telegraph I found interesting. It doesn't refer to the Tolkien based films but it made me think of them. My cousin who hadn't read the books but had been obliged to take her children to the films felt they would have been better if they had been made before the SFX got so advanced.

Anyway I agree with a lot of it but that may be my literary bias and demographic

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...-the-plot.html

08-29-2012, 03:33 PM	#1
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,916	If you want good movies....start with the writer and trust him. This is a "Comment" piece in today's Telegraph I found interesting. It doesn't refer to the Tolkien based films but it made me think of them. My cousin who hadn't read the books but had been obliged to take her children to the films felt they would have been better if they had been made before the SFX got so advanced. Anyway I agree with a lot of it but that may be my literary bias and demographic http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...-the-plot.html __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace