The movies that is. I do. I used to be obsessed with it. Now, I just like it alot.
2007-08-28 08:16:08 · 6 answers · asked by Darth Nihilus 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yes. However, the movies are Peter Jackson's version of LoTR, not Tolkien's original story - altho it is very close. I appreciate them for what they are, and I consider it to be one of the highlights of my life to see the story presented in such a great way. But it saddens me in a way, because before the movies the only people that could talk about LoTR with any modicum of knowledge or appreciation were the ones who actually READ the books (except for the children who saw the made for TV cartoon of the Hobbit in 1977 or the die-hards who saw the rotoscoped Ralph Bakshi version of LoTR in 1979 which ended at the Battle of Helm's Deep). It took work, and time, and if you weren't the type of person who, deep down, would go to Middle-Earth without a second thought, then you probably wouldn't finish the books anyway. This kept Middle-Earth firmly in the camp of the nerd, the geek, the scholar, the librarian, the escapist, the gamer, and away from the unappreciative and closed-minded churchgoers, jocks, cheerleaders, bullies, thugs, and various other generally shallow and superficial stereotypical archetypes. Now, however, anyone and everyone can see the films "three nights in a row" on TBS or TNT, or each film on successive nights even if they don't have the DVD's, which I do - boxed set, extended versions. LoTR used to be the great sacred fountain of secret knowledge, a code word almost for those in the know and meaningless to everyone else - I remember meeting a girl on the bus in the eighties, and her handbag was decorated with hand-painted scenes from Middle-Earth. No one else on that bus had any clue what the pretty pictures meant, but I went over and complimented her on the great job she did on Treebeard. We talked for two hours and became great friends.
2007-08-28 08:27:03 · answer #1 · answered by Lord Bearclaw of Gryphon Woods 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to say no I don't get into those kinds of movies. I believe that if someone likes movies like that; that is fine.
2007-08-28 22:59:30 · answer #2 · answered by BULLDOG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Movies were good. Books should be required reading they are so good.
2007-08-28 20:34:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah!
2007-08-28 15:45:33 · answer #4 · answered by Death.Note.fan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but no.
2007-08-28 15:31:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope.
2007-08-28 15:28:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋