I really want to know. Because I think I am the only one who doesn't care for it. Am I so totally alone in this? |
|
I really want to know. Because I think I am the only one who doesn't care for it. Am I so totally alone in this? |
|
My new friend: Lucy D. Tea
Wow really? I thought everyone on this planet like LOTR.. unless... Where are you again the moon right? Well that explains it.. Yeah I heard some people up there didn't to much care for it because they didn't film any of it up there something about too many craters.. |
|
Well the movies were good, the books were ok. The second one sucked. I think Robert Jordan's WoT makes LOTR look silly, but that's just me. |
|
Hope is the denial of reality.
|
|
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
- Kurt Cobain (1967 – 1994)
Rober Jordan's wheel of time is freaking AMAZING |
|
"i am the crumpled sheets of paper behind an artists' attempt at perfection"
www.myspace.com/mattnocas (more recent pics and info)
Pictures of me here-----> (4 years old now)
http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5073
I've been working and my mother keeps putting my laptop in places I can't find. By the time I get to the internet, its midnight and I'm too sleepy to write too much. I'll try to write more. |
|
My new friend: Lucy D. Tea
The books were amazing, Tolkien did not only write those books, but he lived in middle-earth. The movies didn't do the books any justice, but cinematically they were ok. WoT is good, but where you do think fantasy started (well greek and norse myth technically) but Tolkien started it in this century. |
|
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C.S. Lewis
|
|
Ignorant bliss is an oxymoron; but so is miserable truth.
I just sort of felt like Tolkein was original but that's all. He was a noob fantasy writer because he was the first. Its all very intelligent but lacking depth I felt. I know, a lot of people say its got more depth than anything else, but 3 books, 4 if you count the hobbit just isn't enough depth. If you want to undertsand a people, you must know their myths, their legends, their dreams, their upbringing and all of this isnt discussed much in LotR. I dunno, I'm not saying Tolkein sucks, I mean it was pretty good. Book two definately sucked, but otherwise it was pretty awesome. I just feel that Jordan was definately the better of the two, by a long shot. |
|
Hope is the denial of reality.
http://tolkien.slimy.com/ |
|
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C.S. Lewis
I never really got into LOTR, either. Although maybe I should give them another chance. everyone i know really likes those movies. i guess im just not normal . |
|
i never liked them either. to long for that little of "insight" into human nature. they we're played out. i think i would enjoy the books, but then again i'm not into fantasy stuff. |
|
clear eyes. strong hands.
im sorry... but lacking depth? |
|
"A knight is sworn to valor.
His heart knows only virtue.
His blade defends the helpless.
His might upholds the weak.
His word speaks only truth.
His wrath undoes the wicked."
Impossible is only that which has yet to be imagined
Actually, Tolkein was an English teacher. He wrote LotR only for the purpose of creating new languages. The rest of the story just sort of came out after. |
|
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
- Kurt Cobain (1967 – 1994)
his son compiled all his notes and made different books. The sillmarillion and the lost tales of middle-earth (which is like a series of seven or so books.) |
|
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C.S. Lewis
Bookmarks