View Poll Results: What would best describe your experience with LOTR?
Read the books before seeing the film
41
65.08%
Saw the film before reading the books
11
17.46%
Saw the film, no need to read the books
3
4.76%
Read the book, no need to see the film
0
0%
This movie was based on a book?
4
6.35%
Twikoff!
4
6.35%
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Did the book come before the movie for you or vice versa?
12-18-02, 12:36 PM
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Read them all in my early teens, back in the 80's (including the Silmarillion).
I am annoyed with/by the people who haven't read the books, but who are latching onto these movies. I have a friend who collects those expensive ceramic dragon and wizard sculptures, who was a big Dragonlance fan, who bought his ticket to see the Two Towers on opening day about a week in advance, yet he hasn't read the books. I was calling him a "poser" yesterday, partly jokingly, but partly seriously.
People, if you've only seen the movies, you know nothing of Middle-earth. That is my big concern. While the movies will entice some to read the books, to many, many others, the movies will become the truth of what Tolkien intended, and that is just plain wrong.
I am annoyed with/by the people who haven't read the books, but who are latching onto these movies. I have a friend who collects those expensive ceramic dragon and wizard sculptures, who was a big Dragonlance fan, who bought his ticket to see the Two Towers on opening day about a week in advance, yet he hasn't read the books. I was calling him a "poser" yesterday, partly jokingly, but partly seriously.
People, if you've only seen the movies, you know nothing of Middle-earth. That is my big concern. While the movies will entice some to read the books, to many, many others, the movies will become the truth of what Tolkien intended, and that is just plain wrong.
12-18-02, 03:15 PM
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Originally posted by TheMadMonk
Read them all in my early teens, back in the 80's (including the Silmarillion).
I am annoyed with/by the people who haven't read the books, but who are latching onto these movies. I have a friend who collects those expensive ceramic dragon and wizard sculptures, who was a big Dragonlance fan, who bought his ticket to see the Two Towers on opening day about a week in advance, yet he hasn't read the books. I was calling him a "poser" yesterday, partly jokingly, but partly seriously.
People, if you've only seen the movies, you know nothing of Middle-earth. That is my big concern. While the movies will entice some to read the books, to many, many others, the movies will become the truth of what Tolkien intended, and that is just plain wrong.
Read them all in my early teens, back in the 80's (including the Silmarillion).
I am annoyed with/by the people who haven't read the books, but who are latching onto these movies. I have a friend who collects those expensive ceramic dragon and wizard sculptures, who was a big Dragonlance fan, who bought his ticket to see the Two Towers on opening day about a week in advance, yet he hasn't read the books. I was calling him a "poser" yesterday, partly jokingly, but partly seriously.
People, if you've only seen the movies, you know nothing of Middle-earth. That is my big concern. While the movies will entice some to read the books, to many, many others, the movies will become the truth of what Tolkien intended, and that is just plain wrong.
I agree MadMonk. Likewise anyone who criticizes these movies without having read the books have no real appreciation for just how much magic of the books is actually captured on screen.
I myself feel peeved at fair-weather fans as I have been waiting for these movies for about eight year after I finished reading the books for the first and only time. I have since acquired a new set of the trilogy in Hardcover that I use as a reference to catch up occassionally, but have not re-read all the way through.
12-18-02, 03:26 PM
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Read the books first. Of course many of the scenes and characters would look and act differently if I had directed the films, but Jackson's vision is fairly close to mine.
I take a different view. People seeing and falling in love with the film version of Tolkien's world is better than not experiencing it at all.
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I take a different view. People seeing and falling in love with the film version of Tolkien's world is better than not experiencing it at all.
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12-18-02, 07:46 PM
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I read the books before the films but it doesn't matter. Both versions are wonderful and both the movie and the book has things to offer which the other doesn't.
For me they are 2 parts of a whole now.
For me they are 2 parts of a whole now.
12-18-02, 08:04 PM
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I saw the 70's cartoons, then the movie, and now reading the books.
...let me say that IMHO the recent films WILL stand the test of time. They're well done, well acted, and just plain good.
...let me say that IMHO the recent films WILL stand the test of time. They're well done, well acted, and just plain good.
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12-18-02, 08:05 PM
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I read the books many times before the movies, which might be why the movies take me a little longer to really accept ... just because my mind must reconcile the differences between book and movie. I don't think that movie LOTR fans are "posers" per se, but I do hope that more people have picked up the books and read them than would have. I'm for most anything that will get people reading ... it's the English teacher in me.
12-19-02, 03:15 AM
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I've read all the books about 3-4 years before the first movie came out. I just got back from seeing TTT and it will take me at least one more viewing before I stop thinking about the changes and just enjoy the movie. 
I would like to see The Hobbit made into a film, since that was my favorite book.
I would like to see The Hobbit made into a film, since that was my favorite book.
12-19-02, 04:48 PM
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I read the books after seeing the first movie (I tried before that, but just got bored).
They were fine, but not something I'll probably read again. Still, it made me more excited to see the other movies.
They were fine, but not something I'll probably read again. Still, it made me more excited to see the other movies.
12-20-02, 04:45 PM
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Originally I had planned to read all of the books and wait until all three movies were released to watch them. My mom however had this urge last month to see FOTR so my plan was ruined. Watched FOTR and TTT and bought the books today. I'll start the hobbit after I finish reading dreamcatcher (winter and summer break is the only time I get to do leisure reading).
12-20-02, 05:52 PM
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Originally posted by lisadoris
Originally I had planned to read all of the books and wait until all three movies were released to watch them. My mom however had this urge last month to see FOTR so my plan was ruined. Watched FOTR and TTT and bought the books today. I'll start the hobbit after I finish reading dreamcatcher (winter and summer break is the only time I get to do leisure reading).
Originally I had planned to read all of the books and wait until all three movies were released to watch them. My mom however had this urge last month to see FOTR so my plan was ruined. Watched FOTR and TTT and bought the books today. I'll start the hobbit after I finish reading dreamcatcher (winter and summer break is the only time I get to do leisure reading).
12-20-02, 06:37 PM
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I've read upto TTT. Tried to start ROTK since all I kept hearing was "it's practically one BIG battle" but found it extremely boring I had to stop. I'll pick it up again next year right before the movie comes out though for sure.
12-20-02, 06:41 PM
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Technically, for me it's none of the above. I was still reading ROTK when I saw FOTR; now I've read them all. Bring on the Battle of Pelennor Fields!
12-20-02, 10:16 PM
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I just started reading FOTR a few days ago. I'm kind of kicking myself for not reading it earlier. It's really wierd seeing how different the book is from the movie after I've gotten used to what is in the movie.