Lord of the Rings

[opengoal]

Thought the film has dumbed down the book, but now I'm reading it, I realise that the film hasn't really dumbed it down that much (by Hollywood standard).

Whereas it was a joy to read Harry Potter, it's a pain to read LOTR. Harry Potter is written so "our time" that the pages fly before I notice - & I couldn't put the book down once I started reading it. But LOTR's language is so fairy tale/myth like that I'm saying I'm going to give up every twnety minutes. & because I don't like poetry or rhymes in fiction, I'm practically skip every song or poem that clutters the book. It's all very well trying to create an alternative world, but the songs are distracting and boring.

I'm still stuck in The Fellowship of the Ring. I wonder whether I'll read the next two volumes...

Or maybe I should read some fanfic to make myself interested in LOTR again.

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[opengoal.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Now, I'm getting to the end of "Fellowship" too. I like the book much better since the Lothlorien chapter where all of them allowed themselves to be blindfolded.
And I also like the interaction between Boromir and Aragorn in the book. And Sam seems quite an interesting character, too.
I guess I'm going to read on, after all.

As for the films... I haven't watched the Philosopher's Stone. Didn't have time or motivation to. The actors don't quite look like what I imagine the characters to be, and I think I can very well visualise the world in the book without a film doing that for me, so I wasn't really motivated to go. But I'll buy the DVD, I guess.

LOTR the movie is alright, except they seem to go from one place to another too fast for me to appreciate the different landscape and settings. But there was rather little story in it to hold the younger audience's attention. I was very unfortunately sandwiched between young kids in the cinema. It was very annoying that the kids were talking when things go slow and then when something happens they asked their mother what it was and why it happened.

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[ccalgreen.livejournal.com]

The old "kids talking during movie chestnut"... I think they should be strapped down and gagged if they're going to come and see anything that doesn't require audience participation!