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Originally Posted by Raynor Did I miss something? Since last time I checked, there were three pages worth of topics and less that 2000 posts. |
We just absorbed another Forum, Raynor. Unfortunately, most of their Tolkien threads have been quiet for a long while. I'm sure we can perk them up, however.
Paige, I didn't find the movies annoying. Parts of them, yes, as I am sure I would have found parts of even a more faithful adaptation. I'm usually a militant purist when it comes to dramatizations of favorite books, but not this time. For one thing, with so many riches spread out before me, it seems ungrateful to ask for more. (And these movies excited me more than any movie has done since I was a teenager.) And for another -- well, I usually get particularly mad when it's an older classic that's been successfully dramatized before and now someone has come along and decided to reinvent the story, because then the changes seem gratuitous -- but in this case LOTR had a reputation for being unfilmable, and Jackson showed that it wasn't. Now that he's done that, I look forward to a more faithful remake (possibly a mini-series), which I do believe will come during my lifetime.