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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 479505" data-attributes="member: 8704">Yes books and movies are completely different storytelling mediums. Thus the reason for my statement. That is the whole end all be all of my ramblings here. I am not in any way putting down either medium and I am defiantly not putting down LOTR the book or the movie. I do believe you need to read those books instead of just going by the movie. One of the reasons LOTR wasn't made into a movie sooner (not counting the cartoons) is the fear that it would not be like by the fans of the book. The Tolken estate is very touchy about the LOTR property, if they didn't believe in the movie then it wouldn't of been made. The movie is wonderful but as far as the amount of information conveyed, guess that's why the director felt the need to add thirty minutes of extra footage for a special edition. For that matter I have never heard anybody talk about how a movie had more scenes in it that the book it was taken from, it's always talk about what scenes from the book were left out.Which do you like better books or movies, well that's a matter of taste. I won't argue what anybody should like because everybody has their own opinions. Actually I love movies, because I'm lazy.I do stand by reading LOTR, if Tolkien hadn't of written it in 1954, then there is no telling where the fantasy genre would be today, it laid the basic framework for modern fantasy writing. I also wonder if D&D would exist, but that is way off on another topic.</blockquote>

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