jmcquown wrote:
> Gary wrote:
>> Terry Coombs wrote:
>>>
>>> Sam never said that - in the only true representation of the tale of
>>> Frodo Nine-Fingers and the Ring of Doom . The writers of those movies
>>> were "inventive" to say the least . I've read the covers off
>>> (literally!) at least 3 sets of the Trilogy of the Ring over the last 50
>>> or so years , and ferdamshure Sam never said that . Poetic license my
>>> dyin' ass . Frodo Lives !
>>
>>
>> I read "The Hobbit" and then the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy back
>> in the 1970's. I still have the books on my bookshelf. Amazing
>> story but the only thing I hated was how several separate events
>> happened all through that trilogy. You would just get into and
>> enjoy one story then next chapter is....meanwhile...and an
>> entirely different story started or continued. Kind of like a tv
>> soap opera. Make you wait. At least at the end, all stories come
>> together.
>>
>> Anyway...I've never bothered to watch the movies. They always
>> change things from the books.
>> Same thing with any movie made from any book.
>>
> Seems like in the 1970's the thing to read was 'The Hobbit' and then the
> 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. I still have those books on my shelves.

i read through them usually at least once a year,
often more than that if i can't get out in a storm
and want something to read. each time i find a
different perspective on something that i hadn't
noticed before.

i read them first in the early 70s too, along with
Dune they were books that stuck with me that i've
often gone back to for more re-reads than any other.


> At least teens were reading books back then! What do they do now, tap
> on smart phones?
>
> I heard (and it's probably a Tolkien legend) J.R.R. wrote the books for
> his son. Sent the trilogy off in chapters while he was away at war.
> The timing in the 1940's works. <shrug> Likely a legend.

uh, no it isn't a legend, they've published his letters
and large chunks of the process and how it all came about.
amazing when you think what it ended up as.


> Did you know 'The Hobbit' was originally written as a children's book?

yes and that's why it is so much different
than the longer story which comes after.


> And I agree, most movies made from books suck.

i like the imagination that books allow your own
mind to create - i think that is a loss for children
if they never have either the time or the space to
create things themselves any more.


songbird