LotR Films in Retrospect and Changed Opinions - Page 3

bropous · 01-07-2006, 01:38 PM

Now that the old Entmooters have seen all three films, and their "extended" versions over and over, and you've had a good year or two to think about it, have your opinions you originally stated changed? How?

I was originally head-over-heels for the first film, but my opinion soured over time as reflection overcame novelty.

Even the extended editions, which came a step or two closer to the original story, failed miserably in truly capturing the essence of Middle-Earth.

Also, do you think that very many people actually made the full journey "there and back again" once they bought the books? Or do you think that Jackson's facile treatment was so different from the books that folks who saw the films first were turned off by Professor T's masterworks?

Discuss amongst yourselves.

01-07-2006, 01:38 PM	#1
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	LotR Films in Retrospect and Changed Opinions Now that the old Entmooters have seen all three films, and their "extended" versions over and over, and you've had a good year or two to think about it, have your opinions you originally stated changed? How? I was originally head-over-heels for the first film, but my opinion soured over time as reflection overcame novelty. Even the extended editions, which came a step or two closer to the original story, failed miserably in truly capturing the essence of Middle-Earth. Also, do you think that very many people actually made the full journey "there and back again" once they bought the books? Or do you think that Jackson's facile treatment was so different from the books that folks who saw the films first were turned off by Professor T's masterworks? Discuss amongst yourselves. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.