LOTR

[gbm]

These are the absolute most amazing films i have ever seen, almost as good as the books. Who here has seen/read these movies/books?

[Survivor]

I will refer to you the existing discussion at http://www.chronicles-network.net/fo...ay;threadid=10.

[brian]

I enojoyed Fellowship, but not sure if I like the film version of the Two Towers.

Fellowship has a story that moves, but Two Towers has characters that move, but the plot does not.

LOTR was a funny book - I often felt it inconsistent with itself, as if unable to determine whether it would be a light tale like the Hoibbit (cf, Tom Bombadil), or else something darker and more mature (ie, Moria).

I found a few things came across as rushed and garbled - was never keen on the Dead Marshes bit, and the final battle in Mordor read very rushed to myself.

But it has been some years...

It is even longer since I read the Hobbit, but I enojyed that immensely, and actually spent a few days depressed that I didn't live in such a place! LOTR never did that for me. (btw, I was arounsd 14-16 when I last read the Hobbit.)