| Author | Message | ||
     Danger_dave |
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| Gunut75 |
"Imagine if we would have had to walk the entire way?". HAHAHA  | ||
| Pwnzor |
•••• hahahahahaha | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Nice. Actually, I thought Sam and Frodo were going to swap spit at the end. | ||
| Not_purple_s2 |
If you thought the movies were long boring and drawn out, try to read the books. I love that kind of stuff. I wasn't a DnD nerd, I grew up in the sticks and they didn't know what dnd was, but I love RPG video games and fantasy novels. But I could barely make it through LOTR. | ||
| Pwnzor |
In this case, unlike almost any other, I felt the movies were much better than the books. Never mind that they were much longer than needed, the visual spectacle of it was aesthetically pleasing to me from start to finish. | ||
| Froggy |
So I take it that I am the only one who enjoyed sitting on my ass for about 16 hours straight watching all the extended versions back to back? | ||
| Daschunk |
No. I do the same thing yearly. | ||
| Scott_in_nh |
Great movies, especially with the extended scenes, and the books are even better! I had seen this spoof before though and it is funny! | ||
| Pwnzor |
I found the books to be quite dreary. The movies, top notch. A story that wasn't hurried, and lots of great effects. Magic, dragons, weird dwarfy people and hot elven women! | ||
| Hootowl |
I can read the books faster than I can watch the movies. That's saying something. I'm not sure what exactly. | ||
| M1combat |
Mildly NSFW (although that's actually where I saw it first...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JymbT6eIZPA | ||
| Kenm123t |
LOTR is proof drugs destroy your mind. LSD trip VERY BAD ONE | ||
| Hughlysses |
LOTR is proof drugs destroy your mind. LSD trip VERY BAD ONE No, that would be the last 15 minutes of "2001: A Space Odyssey".  | ||
| Jaimec |
LOVED the books (sorry). At one point, I was able to read the Elvish runes without translation. The depth and detail of the history of all the people and races in Middle Earth were endlessly fascinating. I've lost count how many times I've read them, and every time I did I discovered something new. Last time I read it was before the first of Jackson's movies came out. The only character I really missed from the books was Tom Bombadil. In the long run, he didn't really add much to the tale but he was a fun character. The one thing he DID do for the hobbits was present them with their swords... but that part was passed on to Aragorn in the movie. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Enjoyed both. The movie was also about 'I've been there' for us. | ||
| Kenm123t |
hugh You really didnt get the last 15 Hmm the symbolism was very clear Clarke was a little intense for some | ||
| Ezblast |
Have any of you read National Lapoon's Bored of the Rings? A very funny short parody. I've read it almost as many times as LOTR. EZ | ||
| Danger_dave |
I was bewildered by the last 15 of 2001 till I read the book. Then it's 'duh - I see'. HAL is just a sub plot. Which lead to reading almost everything he wrote. | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
I watched them all three from start to finish ONE time and I will never do it again. I liked the story and all but it was just too long for me. I did how ever watch all 6 star wars movies back to back a few weeks ago. | ||
| Britchri10 |
Bored of the Rings was required reading at my Grammar School. ( We had a hippy Eng Lit teacher,though!) Tolkein's books are better than the films. However,the films do do the books justice which is often not the case with other classic books. | ||
| Blake |
Round about junior high school time-frame I thoroughly enjoyed reading Tolkein's LOTR series and The Hobbit while listening to Rush. Rush seems like the perfect sound track for Tolkein's stories. Was LOTR a metaphor of some real world conflict? | ||
| Hughlysses |
I was bewildered by the last 15 of 2001 till I read the book. Then it's 'duh - I see'. HAL is just a sub plot. Which lead to reading almost everything he wrote. Interesting- IIRC 2001 is one of the few things Clarke wrote that I've never read. I guess I need to add that to my reading list. | ||
| Danger_dave |
I could tell you in two sentences? | ||
| Xbniner |
Was LOTR a metaphor of some real world conflict? No. People have tried tacking all sorts of messages and metaphors onto LOTR for years. When asked, Tolkien said it was "just a good story." I have loved the books since I was a little kid, but the movies actually did pretty well. If you want to read something a little faster-paced and lighthearted read The Belgariad by Eddings. If you want to be truly bored- read the Silmarillion by Tolkien. Set in Middlearth like LOTR, but way more dry. It's like a history book full of things that never happened.} | ||
| Iman501 |
If you want to be truly bored- read the Silmarillion by Tolkien. i tried reading that two different times. i failed both times! its to slow, and has waaaaaaaay to many characters introduced right off the bat | ||
| Danger_dave |
Ditto Silamarillion fail. | ||
| 86129squids |
I like Frank Herbert. | ||
| Danger_dave |
There's one where the fillum didn't do the book justice. | ||
| Danger_dave |
fillum... | ||
| Danger_dave |
no bilbo for hyou. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id =1&objectid=10678338 | ||
| Froggy |
Unions..... |
