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Marshal of the Eastmark
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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There was once a man who felt his people didn't have a mythology. He loved to read the myths of related peoples, even to the point of learning ancient dead languages. He became one of the most knowledgeable people in certain dead forms of his own language. But secretly, that wasn't what he wanted. He wanted to create a mythology for his people. His journals began to be filled with poems and tales of the imaginary people of this imaginary mythology. He wrote the songs they sang and the stories they told. He wrote in the old dead languages, and he wrote in old dead forms. He addressed (in his journal) the people he lived with to tell them that he could see the beings of myth in the elms that surrounded them all.
He went to war and was injured, and he returned home to the girl he wanted to marry. She helped him recover from his injuries and encouraged his mythologizing. He wrote, she copy-edited. They married and had children. He was hired to write a dictionary, then he became a teacher of old dead languages and ancient texts. Over his life he wrote many books, eventually publishing what was to be called "the book of the century". Many years after he died, a filmmaker used the settings from his books and a few elements of his stories to make a movie. Then people who said they "hated to read" declared themselves fans. The very idea that anyone would defend illiteracy and use his name in that context reached under the ground, and he rolled over in his grave!
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Lurker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Lothlórien
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Indeed!
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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Go Elfhelm! Couldn't have put it better myself.
And yes, I've still got this pot of boiling hot oil here, if you want I should put you in it.
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#24 |
The man
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: MA
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It's nice to know there are some people here who agree with me
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protector of orphaned rabbits
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place!
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good history lesson... wanna cookie? (there chocolate chip)
i never heard him say that he wass a TOLKEIN fan. but just a movie fan. if he did say he was a tolkein fan then i agree with tater. he is a peter jackson fan, and a movie fan, posting in the forum and thread (whish was clearly labeled) for movie business,.. so i am still having just a little bit of trouble understanding why people are against him? hmm haha i said whish :P
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#26 |
Viggoholic
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Australia
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Who is this man Elfhelm speaks of, did he write some book?
![]() I read the LOTR for the first time a few years ago and I can't get the images of the movie out of my head. I prefer EW as Frodo cause he looks so much better than the illustrations I see in books. And I never thought I would think bad thoughts about Frodo and Aragorn! I agree that since this is a movie forum you don't need to read the books to particpate.
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Darkness
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I tried my best to get people to read the books before they saw the movie.
The happiest I have been in a long time is when my eight year old son turned to me in the movie theatre and said " That's not a Balrog, it's got a Cow's head!" It's humbling to be vindicated by a small child.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey
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I have been reading lotr more or less constantly for a long time now, the biggest compliment i can give PJ is that at times i felt i had seen the movie before , im sure hes been in my head nicking my images - but I do agree that reading the thing is a must , with all due respect to PJ its a peice of the pie not the full hit - long live the written word !
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Hobbit
Join Date: Apr 2002
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I have read the books many many times before seeing the movie, and I must say that I wasn´t even sure would I go to see it, because I was afraid that it would change my images of it, but luckily it didn´t - now when I read the book, I still see my own images of characters and places in my mind. A friend of mine told that she sees Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn now, and I was like "eeew..." Reading a book before seeing the movie is better IMO, but still - movies are fine too. Even though they wouldn´t be what you expect. (meaning = PJ´s vision was quite different than mine.
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Possessive Villain Fancier
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: On my ship, riding the waves YARR!
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Quote:
Sorry that wasn't veery relevant but i thought it was funny...
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Florida
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Marshal of the Eastmark
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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I think vig stated my feeling best about the current movie. It's one piece of the pie. There were other movies, and there will be more made. To me, a movie producers rendition is just like a painter or musician's rendition. They are all tributes to the original and were never meant to do anything more than supplement the experience. I bet every actor in these movies, along with the directors and set designers and computer animators right down to the last little grip haulling heavy cameras up a snowy mountainside, read the books. So I don't think someone who sees the movie and refuses to read the books ever got the point, and can't possibly be a fan.
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#33 |
Lurker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Lothlórien
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Tater, was it you who changed the subject?
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Seattle, WA
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by LuthienTinuviel
he is a peter jackson fan, and a movie fan, posting in the forum and thread (whish was clearly labeled) for movie business,.. so i am still having just a little bit of trouble understanding why people are against him? One reason I like the Entmoot is there's no foul (Orc-like) language, as I've seen on other sites. It would be enjoyable if we also tried to go easy on people we don't agree with -- don't trash them on brief acquaintance. I have a dear friend who's illiterate, has many good qualities, but would look a fool if he tried to post here, . . we can't all be professors of literature. No one who posts here can be all bad if they love FotR, movie, book or comic version! (Hey, where's the comic?) |
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey
Posts: 247
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Elfhelm
I think you are a poet
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