So I see a typical Yahoo Answers question - "should I read the book or go to the movie" but this time the question is concerning J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of The Rings series.
To my extreme surprise, and dismay, many people answer 50/50 or just go to the movies. JUST GO TO THE MOVIES!??
The Lord of the Rings has had a profound and wide-ranging impact on popular culture starting in the 1960s and 1970s and lasting until today. Thins is almost a 50 year span and young people still embraced it as a countercultural saga.
Its influence has been vastly extended in the present day. Many still utter the phrases "Frodo Lives!" and "Gandalf for President". They books have permeated modern culture with endless rock songs, follow up books, a sting of movies (other that Jackson's), Monopoly games, the entire Dungeons an Dragons phenomena, and so on, and so on.
2007-07-10
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