Who here are LOTR fans?

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Podo2004:
frodo…from what i’ve heard he’s been living good in the grey havens:D
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I thought Frodo was living in the Undying Lands. This hobbit must have been a Frodo impersonator. Sorta like Elvis. 😃
 
I liked the books when I was about 11. I don’t care too much for them now. I think reading fantasy battles is a wase of time when there are so many horrible things happening in the real world that we should be trying to do something about. Who needs to escape into a fantasy world to watch battles of good and evil?

I didn’t think the books or the movie was awesome. The movies were pretty but long and boring. Just run and fight run and fight. Not much at all in the way of characterisation. I think people who lacked familiarity with the books would have to watch the films a few times to know who’s who, since there were so many characters with little information.

I didn’t care who won watching the films, except I preferred it not to be the ugly guys, becuase that is the way any movie depicts the good and the bad. The bad are usually ugly, and in those filsm they were gross beyond ugly.
 
i loved them both - but the books more. i’m a bibliophile, so that goes without saying.

there have only been two instances i can ever remember when the movie was better than the book.
 
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I liked the books when I was about 11. I don’t care too much for them now. I think reading fantasy battles is a wase of time when there are so many horrible things happening in the real world that we should be trying to do something about. Who needs to escape into a fantasy world to watch battles of good and evil?
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If need to ask that question then you shall not know.:rolleyes:
 
As an LOTR geek (I’ve read the trilogy at least 10 times, and have read the “Silmarillion” several times… something a lot of LOTR fans haven’t since it’s a bit difficult to plow through), I was annoyed with the movies at first, since I sat there picking out every minute detail that was changed/left out. On the advice of a friend, I watched 'em all again to try and enjoy them as simple “adventure” films and I now find that I love them. The acting is great, the editing is better, the story is coherent and fast moving, and the cinematography is unbelievable! The books are the best, but the movies are mighty fine indeed…

Peace!
 
I think a better question would be: who doesn’t like LOTR? The movies were excellent, but the books were better (as books usually are). A priest I know gave a great talk about the Catholicism in LOTR. As I go to Catholic school, we got to have him give it to the whole school. I don’t remember everything he said, but a lot of it was already covered here.
 
I’ll tell you anything about LOTR. seriously!!!, anything at all…go ahead try andf stump me!!!
 
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Sean.McKenzie:
I’ll tell you anything about LOTR. seriously!!!, anything at all…go ahead try andf stump me!!!
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who came first–tom bombadil or treebread?
 
I’d say treebeard. LOTR has so much Christian symbolism, I love the hidden meanings in the books and movies.
 
I haven’t read all the posts here–there are just too many! But, the ones I did read pretty much said the same thing, that LOTR and the other books and tales about Middle Earth, are great works of literary art (despite modernist critics’ carpings). I agree with all the positive things said about the books. They are simply the greatest fantasy/mythological fiction ever written.

I totally appreciate them in all their depths of meaning as a Catholic, but I when I first read them while in college I wasn’t a Catholic. I was a former Episcopalian who had been (for many years) and still was a member of the Assemblies of God. Needless to say, these two Christian bodies were worlds apart in their outlook and practice. But both were not Catholic in outlook, though, an outlook that was foreign to me.

Anyway, I saw the animated Bakshi version of LOTR and was intrigued. I recognized that it was a great story and so got the books. I began reading them on a Friday night and finished them (Frodo and Sam’s story through the end of the books) by Sunday night. I was one person when I started reading them and was another one when I finished–they had that profound an effect on me.

I didn’t run out to find a priest to become Catholic afterwards. I hardly connected Tolkien’s Catholicism with the change of heart and mind that had come over me, but when I began to investigate Catholic teachings, especially the Marian teachings, I was better prepared to understand the sensibilities of such teachings. It was like meeting Galadriel for real, if you see what I mean.

So, I am an unabashed Tolkien fan. I often pray for his canonization because I believe he brought Christ to people who would never enter the door of any church and demonstrated the value of the social teachings of the Church in his life and in his writings, as well as the love of God and the redemption and salvation of man.
 
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who came first–tom bombadil or treebread?
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Tom Bombadil. Tolkien wrote that Tom was the oldest of all the beings in Middle Earth. Tom is the personification of nature and the natural order.
 
I liked the books when I was about 11. I don’t care too much for them now. I think reading fantasy battles is a wase of time when there are so many horrible things happening in the real world that we should be trying to do something about. Who needs to escape into a fantasy world to watch battles of good and evil?
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From Mythopoeia, a poem dedicated “To one who said that myths were lies, and therefore worthless, even though ‘breathed through silver’”, by J. R. R. Tolkien.

*The heart of Man is not composed of lies,
but draws some wisdom from the only Wise,
and still recalls him. Though now long estranged,
Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.
Dis-graced he may be, yet is not dethroned,
and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned,
his world-dominion by creative act…

Blessed are the timid hearts that evil hate,
that quail in its shadow, and yet shut the gate;
that seek no parley, and in guarded room,
though small and bare, upon a clumsy loom
weave tissues gilded by the far-off day
hoped and believed in under shadow’s sway.

Blessed are the men of Noah’s race that build
their little arks, though frail and poorly filled,
and steer through winds contrary towards a wraith,
a rumour of a harbour guessed by faith…*

Story is integral to humans. It is through story and myth that we encounter truth. Tolkien once famously rebutted an accusation of ‘escapism’ by asking whom is most afraid of others escaping. Jailers.
 
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antiaphrodite:
who came first–tom bombadil or treebread?
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Bombadil was around before Treebeard (Fangorn). I have no idea who “treebread” is!:rotfl:

Peace!
 
I love LOTR! :cool: Read all 3 books plus the Hobbit and working on the Silmarillion. And the movies are awesome! I watched Oliver Twist today just to see Elijah Wood (but don’t worry, I’m not a fangirl or anything :rolleyes: ). Actually, just today I was playing “Rohan” on the piano… great melody!
 
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CanonAlberic:
Bombadil was around before Treebeard (Fangorn). I have no idea who “treebread” is!:rotfl:

Peace!
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arrgh another spelling blooper!!!:banghead:

:o :o :o
 
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philipbenedict:
The movies were good but not as good as the books.
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Yes, I agree. Although, as a medium, the films were truly excellent. Still, they couldn’t plumb the depths of Tolkien’s thought or themes. However, if they whet the appetite of young people to read the books the movies will have been worth every penny spent on them.
 
I would say that Treebeard came first, because they taught the elves when the elve first came into existence.Silmarillion
 
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