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Post by Yavanna on Jul 1, 2005 12:12:37 GMT -5
I had to read the books before my parents let me see the movies...I'm glad I read them first though so that I could picture Middle-earth in my own mind before it was filled with what the movies made Middle-earth look like.
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Post by melkor on Jul 1, 2005 14:57:29 GMT -5
books were good
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Post by Rose Cotton on Jul 9, 2005 9:52:53 GMT -5
I hadn't heard of LotR before the movies. I'm glad I did.
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Post by Flutter Fire on Jul 9, 2005 17:10:34 GMT -5
Books, then movies.
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Post by Finrod on Aug 15, 2005 9:26:24 GMT -5
has anyone read the appendices ?
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Post by Yavanna on Aug 15, 2005 10:33:41 GMT -5
I've read some of them
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Post by Rose Cotton on Aug 15, 2005 16:26:48 GMT -5
has anyone read the appendices ? well, of course!  (no, not of course, but yes, I have read them) |
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Post by FrodoFan on Aug 16, 2005 12:42:56 GMT -5
Actually, I read the hobbit, saw Fotr movie, read FotR book, read TTT book, saw TTT movie, read RotK, saw RotK.  Then I read the Sil..... |
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Post by RohanGal on Sept 9, 2005 10:42:38 GMT -5
I read the FOTR after I saw it in theater's and I haven't read the other two yet.
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Post by Mírwen Líndorië on Oct 19, 2005 15:20:50 GMT -5
Yeah I read the books. I''m me, of course i read the books before watching the movie! Not that it did anything but make me picture aragorn's voice sounding like Liam Neeson and picturing Merry and Pippin being 8 and 11 years old looking, but other than that and the overstressing of Arwen and Eowyns roles though for obvious reasons, i thoroughly enjoyed the books and the movies both. But...I still like MY version of the characters better! (sept maybe gollum...in NLC he was cuter.)
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Post by Altáriel on Jan 6, 2007 13:20:27 GMT -5
I first saw the movies, because I never heard of the Lord of the Rings before. I enjoyed the movies very mucht, so I started to read the books. And they were great! So now I've become a sort of Tolkien addict.
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Post by FrodoFan on Feb 19, 2008 9:35:51 GMT -5
The books are amazing. Worlds above what any film could ever do.
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Post by Finrod on Feb 21, 2008 8:56:09 GMT -5
Books are usually better because they leave it to your own imagination, so one could think up anything really. Movies take that imagination and put limits on it.
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Post by Rose Cotton on Feb 21, 2008 14:22:13 GMT -5
Books are usually better because they leave it to your own imagination, so one could think up anything really. Movies take that imagination and put limits on it. That's really well put, actually! Also, when you read, the things you imagine are things you can relate to - for example, scenery takes on the look of somewhere you know, or you model it on a place you have seen. I'm reading the books in english for the first time now, and it's quite a different experience from reading the translated edition. |
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Post by FrodoFan on Feb 21, 2008 18:59:32 GMT -5
Better experience or worse? I'd think it would be better since it's the language it's written in. I've always thought things lose things in translations.
But I completely agree about that Finrod. That is well put.
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(no, not of course, but yes, I have read them)
Then I read the Sil.....
