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I like a lot of casualness with my crunchies! For the latter "Cheetos" rule! ;)

D&D needs evil. And good! What it doesn't need are Neutral middle-of-the-roaders and fair weather acquaintances! Signed, Robilar, Lawful Evil since 1973, so there! ;)

"You like potato and I like potahto "You like tomato and I like tomahto "Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto. "Let's call the whole thing off."

A Company named "Sue"... ;)

Actually I'd rather not derail the topic any further through focusing upon my general history. If you have personal or commercial interests in that line of questioning I'd rather be contacted off-board: Go to Three Line Studio and scroll down to my estate's contact e-mail. Thanks!

That 'My Good Bear' is the understatement of the year.

Correction. Terry was not employed by TSR at the time he showcased his short story about the Beholder, first to me and then to Gary, this as Gary and I were finishing Sup 1 to D&D, Greyhawk (its FC is where the Beholder (drawn by Bell) first appears as an illo). @ALL: As I've indicated I am...

Well, that's been a, to date, dead issue, yes. But I will not speak for Terry. I have had many ruminations about the matter over the years, covered in part in my ongoing work (coming 'round a bend and racing for the home stretch) Lake Geneva Days. You're welcome! All my earliest days with the...

My brother Terry Kuntz created the Beholder and wasn't paid anything for it. Sorry, wrong "Kuntz".

It isn't that the film industry now lacks cogent examples of good Fantasy stories, it's because they conflate D&Ds rise as a game as other than influenced by serious Fantasy, a similar attitude that was defaulted to in the past before D&D's rise. Myth, legend, folklore, literature, poetry...

It is or it isn't in each singular and measurable case as there is attendant risk with everything in life. Post-modern gobbledegook aside, the idea then in each case is to reduce risk, something which LotR as an epic and a movie series both accomplished and which is a singular, specific...

Could have been, would have been, should have been. I'll stick with What it is and What it remains. Aside: it was Miramax who originally wanted to cut it to a 2 hour single movie and Jackson refused, knowing full well that the story could not be done justice in that frame.

Yeah, well, everyone knew that there was no way, ever, to a straight adaptation, so "based upon" became the route with changes and amalgamations. However, in the wash, Jackson captured the "spirt" and "essence" of the story while maintaining the major themes and arc. Interesting, too, that the...

The naysayers lost. Tissue?

Not splitting hairs, just stating the obvious. A win in conception to a win in production is 100%. Everyone else was wrong. I seem to remember a similar situation I was privy to where the wargame industry leader was wrong: It was 1973, and we (TSR and the LGTSA) were told by Avalon Hill that...

Except I wasn't referring to scripts in general, but to Part 1, FotR, which was a very good script.

Never said people were idiots. I mentioned idiots here: "Only an idiot could be handed such a great story and fail, and Jackson was no idiot; and the studio, producers and actors knew that before they started shooting." BTW: You obviously do not understand the Studio system. There is no way...

It won as an Epic Trilogy and as a 3-part film. Proof is in the pudding pal.

Plus Christopher Lee, the only true LotR "scholar" in the productions (he'd read the books many times) was a guiding hand for Jackson as well.

Yes a greedy grabber play. But it does not diminish LotR.