http://www.examiner.com/article/christop...r-le-monde

Thank you. Finally in print that, which I would think, a good number of us thought from the get-go. It took the third one to score an Oscar. I hold Elijah Wood, as an actor, in less esteem than that of Jackson, as a director. Good for Tolkien.

I loved the movies. I'm sure I'll love the hobbit.

However, the movies are not the books and vice versa. It's a movie. It will never have character development or details as the book had them. However, on the whole the movies were good (IMO)...AS MOVIES...irregardless of how well they stacked up to the books.

Also, I'm not in the 15-25 age group he mentions, and I've read The Hobbit and all the LOTR books. I love them all too, but just can't compare apples to oranges. I just take them for what they each are.

(11-29-2012 11:01 PM)T1G3R Wrote:  I loved the movies. I'm sure I'll love the hobbit.

However, the movies are not the books and vice versa. It's a movie. It will never have character development or details as the book had them. However, on the whole the movies were good (IMO)...AS MOVIES...irregardless of how well they stacked up to the books.

Also, I'm not in the 15-25 age group he mentions, and I've read The Hobbit and all the LOTR books. I love them all too, but just can't compare apples to oranges. I just take them for what they each are.

Precisely.

I first read this topic and though Christopher Walken hated the films

Oh boo boo! I have lived a comfortable life off the work of my father but I will still complain about the film franchise that brought in millions more.

(12-01-2012 04:39 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Oh boo boo! I have lived a comfortable life off the work of my father but I will still complain about the film franchise that brought in millions more.

While I don't disagree with you, Christopher did have a lot to do with the LOTR and Hobbit books - he provided feedback to his father, drew maps, did a lot of editing, and more.

In fact, if it wasn't for Christopher, The Silmarillion would have never been published.

So while he wasn't the talent his father was, he still deserves at least some credit for his work in providing feedback, editing, and publishing his father's works posthumously.

But yeah, he comes off as a winy *****.

(11-30-2012 01:50 AM)Tigerbert Wrote:  I first read this topic and though Christopher Walken hated the films

DI DI MAU! DI DI MAU!

(12-01-2012 05:36 PM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(11-30-2012 01:50 AM)Tigerbert Wrote:  I first read this topic and though Christopher Walken hated the films

DI DI MAU! DI DI MAU!

I thought that exact same thing, at first glance.

(12-01-2012 05:29 PM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(12-01-2012 04:39 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Oh boo boo! I have lived a comfortable life off the work of my father but I will still complain about the film franchise that brought in millions more.

While I don't disagree with you, Christopher did have a lot to do with the LOTR and Hobbit books - he provided feedback to his father, drew maps, did a lot of editing, and more.

In fact, if it wasn't for Christopher, The Silmarillion would have never been published.

So while he wasn't the talent his father was, he still deserves at least some credit for his work in providing feedback, editing, and publishing his father's works posthumously.

But yeah, he comes off as a winy *****.

LOTR, maybe. But The Hobbit was published in 1937. Not sure how much he had to do with that work.

However, has done some fabulous work editing his father's papers and I really liked The Children of Hurin.

But yeah, he comes off as a whiny *****.

I am a very avid reader, and my prefered genre is sci-fi/fantasy.

I have NEVER liked The Hobbit/ Lord of the Rings. The movies were better than the books and I dont spend much time watching the movies either.

(12-02-2012 09:52 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  I am a very avid reader, and my prefered genre is sci-fi/fantasy.

I have NEVER liked The Hobbit/ Lord of the Rings. The movies were better than the books and I dont spend much time watching the movies either.

I read a lot also and sci-fi/fantasy is my preferred genre.

And the LOTR books are some of the finest examples of literature in the Western world.

I have vivid memories of taking them off of my fathers bookshelf at 8 years old and pouring through them.

(12-02-2012 09:52 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  I am a very avid reader, and my prefered genre is sci-fi/fantasy.

I have NEVER liked The Hobbit/ Lord of the Rings. The movies were better than the books and I dont spend much time watching the movies either.

Good, I'm glad to read this.

(12-01-2012 09:40 PM)KRB Wrote:  

(12-01-2012 05:36 PM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(11-30-2012 01:50 AM)Tigerbert Wrote:  I first read this topic and though Christopher Walken hated the films

DI DI MAU! DI DI MAU!

I thought that exact same thing, at first glance.

Same here, lol.


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(12-01-2012 09:22 PM)Toll Booth Willie Wrote:  

LMAO!!

Forgot how funny that movie was.