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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lady Starhawk" data-source="post: 577406" data-attributes="member: 441">A note from your friendly neighborhood dyslexic with ADD <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Personally I loved the movies.  The books did nothing for me.  I merely read them because after I saw Fellowship i HAD to know what happened to the characters.It felt like I was reading a textbook.  I was not drawn emotionally into the story at all, I could not picture anything that was being described.  I for the life of me couldn't figure out what Helm's deep looked like from the book, so reading the action was confusing at best.  I couldn't figure out the pictures through all the description.I couldn't figure out how to pronounce most of the names (had I not seen the movie I would have been up a creek without a paddle).The movie showed me what was going on.  I was drawn into the characters through the eyes.  I am very glad that Jackson filmed the way he did because I look at people's eyes, and that's how I understand what's going on with them.  I was drawn into the movies emotionally and I ended up crying in the theater.However: I belong to the camp that movies are a different medium than books.  They tell their tale in a different way.  I can't compare books and movies in terms of "what was better" and I prefer not to.  I am glad I read the books, and perhaps after Rotk comes out I may re-read them, but I may never touch them again.  If you could wear out a dvd I probably would have by now.  I watch Fellowship all the time.  And I still get emotionally drawn into the movie (and I still shed a tear or two).So which is better :Neither.  Apples and Oranges my freind <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I loved the movies, didn't care for the books.  But I like Apples and don't like Oranges...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Lady Starhawk<Spell check IS your friend></blockquote>

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