Lord of the Rings
 

Who else is in love with the LOTR? I started with the movies and now I'm on the books and they are really good. I hope this isn't an old topic.

Sorry about the "their" on the poll. Correction-"they're" :)

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Fixed it for ya, dude :)
GK

i dont realy care much for them. just not that interesting, but everyone likes different things.

Not trying to be mean, but I just wanted to know what you don't like about them? :-? :)

well at first i thought they where decent movies. nothing great, but ok. i could watch them maybe one time and it would all be good. but now i have gotten so tired of hearing all my friends talking about how great the movies are and me not being able to understand how they could feel that way. i mean ive seen all three and thought they all lacked. i guess they where just sorta boring. ROTK had so many parts where i just felt embaressed to be there...like aragorns singing and the froto/pipin slumber party..i also didnt like how gollum went out. and two tower just seemed too drawn out. nothing there cept a huge battle secene. the only one i can say i actually liked pretty good would be the first one (FOTR)...its just me though it seems. everyone else loves these movies..

To tell the truth, you are the first one I've met who does'nt like them. That's ok, I don't hold grudges (except for animal torturers, because I am an animal.) I do agree that the first one is the best, and then the third, then the second. But they are all exceptionally good in my opinion.

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Yes in fact I do. I just finished reading LotR for my 3rd time.

The movies are great, the books are better. I was a bit disappointed in the Two Towers (movie that is), but FotR and RotK were both AMAZING.

Now I'm reading the Silmarillion, which is the history of Middle Earth and the elves and stuff. It's fantastic so far.

Yea, I bought that too (but am far from getting to it with college reading and all). I also bought the Atlas of Middle Earth. This was made before the movies and has tons of maps from the First Age thru the Third Age and follows with all the different Middle Earth books.

i didn't like LOTR at first,but when i saw the two towers it got much better.

You didn't like the Fellowship? Now I've heard everything! :D :wink:

part one was okay,but it was a little boring and there wern't enough action.

I never read the books. I saw previews on TV and just got confused. Sean one day just said to me "Lets go see Lord of the Rings." I figured "What the shell, ok." Saw that and loved it from the start!!!! I especially loved Aragorn and Legolas. I just got my sister into it recently. I got the FOTR and Two Towers extended editions on DVD and got her to watch them. She almost cried when she thought Gandalf was dead. She's 10 years older than me and into wizards. She was very happy once she saw Two Towers and Gandalf was alive. So we saw the last one a week after it came out. I'm kinda confused over the ending though. It's like they wanted YOU to choose which end was better. They had like 5 spots where it should have ended.

I loved Gollum in the second one but in the third one he just ended up pi$$ing me off. heh.

The changes were improvments. Love all three. Nuff said. :D

I waited to see the movies until I could snag both FOTR and TTT on DVD, then pop out to see ROTK. I desperately avoided all hype, interviews, reviews and whatnot for about two years. A Herculean task, indeed.

Though there are obvious discrepancies (My biggest concerns: Glorfindel? Bombadil? Umm, Haldir? Éomer?), I though the movies were wonderfully epic. The story, actors, CGI, set design and costume design all came together seemlessly, I believe. I'm now an BIG Richard Taylor fan. Huzzah!

No book-to-film adaptation is ever right on the money. Had Jackson shot the movie page-by-page, I imagine they would still be shooting the movie to this day! All in all, great film(s).

I've never seen the movies or read the books. Those movies must be pretty good, seeing the way people go ape s*** for them and all.

The movies were really good I thought. The casting couldn't have been better imo. although I loved those films (I went to the early Midnight showing to all 3 of them) I don't see the big deal to be honest. If I see one more "Crossover" fic with LOTR I am killing a tomato.
(The sailor moon/lotr webcomic makes me sick)

I figured you'd have been the first in line, seeing how everyone argues that its based off of WWII.

Well, people argue that the Empire on Star Wars was based on the Third Reich, but you don't see me camping out for the new movie dressed as the Emperor, do you? Or do you!?

I see you as more of a Jar Jar Binks...

or being a juggernaut of terror as you are, I figure you'd be an Ewok or Jawa.

I see myself as that thing that followed Lando around on Cloud City.

What thing, the cyborg? I'd would have rather have just been Lando. I know he was mining Schlitz in Cloud City.