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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9230624" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>I re-read the books fairly recently. I prefer them, ultimately, but I also love the films. For me, they are very different properties (which is why I would have preferred Sam and Frodo dying at the end of the films, but not the books).</p><p></p><p>I'm a literature guy. I teach it. And LotR is such a weirdly unique text. There really is nothing else like it***, even though many have tried. So I find it just fascinating. In particular, I don't understand how it manages to be so completely immersive for me despite often being terribly written, in the usual ways that I measure writing. It is expository, the characters are archetypes rather than individuals, and the dialogue does not read like how real people talk. And I am so there for it.</p><p></p><p>The films are much more conventional. I absolutely think that was necessary, given how Hollywood works and the amount of money involved. And I think the films are fantastic. But, to me, they don't stand out in the way the books do.</p><p></p><p>***In literature. The first <em><em>Stars Wars</em></em> film approaches it. Which I also love unreservedly despite having many similar criticisms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9230624, member: 7035894"] I re-read the books fairly recently. I prefer them, ultimately, but I also love the films. For me, they are very different properties (which is why I would have preferred Sam and Frodo dying at the end of the films, but not the books). I'm a literature guy. I teach it. And LotR is such a weirdly unique text. There really is nothing else like it***, even though many have tried. So I find it just fascinating. In particular, I don't understand how it manages to be so completely immersive for me despite often being terribly written, in the usual ways that I measure writing. It is expository, the characters are archetypes rather than individuals, and the dialogue does not read like how real people talk. And I am so there for it. The films are much more conventional. I absolutely think that was necessary, given how Hollywood works and the amount of money involved. And I think the films are fantastic. But, to me, they don't stand out in the way the books do. ***In literature. The first [I][I]Stars Wars[/I][/I] film approaches it. Which I also love unreservedly despite having many similar criticisms. [/QUOTE]
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