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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul_Klein" data-source="post: 401057" data-attributes="member: 3303">Before the Lord of the Rings film came out last Christmas, I read all the hype, and was frankly very "bleh" about it all. Even after seeing the trailor 5 or 6 times in the theatre, I still wasen't impressed. ("Are you frightened?" "Yes" "Not nearly frightened enough."  OOOoooo a riiiiing. I'm shaking in my boots!)I never read the books (well... about 5 years ago I starting reading the Hobbit. I found it on my father's bookshelf and gave it a go. All I remember is Gandalf and a bunch of Dwarves trying to convince Bilbo to go on some adventure he didn't want to undertake... I stopped reading becuase Tolkien's writing style bugged me).I think I was mostly turned off from the move becuase at that time there was also a lot of hype of Star Wars Episode 2... but a LOT of folks here shruged it off, saying things to the effect of "Who needs Star Wars, we have LotR. Ep1 sucked, Ep2 will suck. Bring on Tolkien... blah blah blah". Being a huge fan of Star Wars, it angered me, and really tured me off of all thing LotR.I evenutally saw the movie... and I liked it. I thought it was ... good. A lot of the dialogue went over my head becuase the actors (Aragorn and Gandalf mostly) tended to slur their sentences ... very bad when using the "fantasy" names of places in Middle Earth. I saw the movie twice in the theatre and I still didn't know what the name of the enchanted elven forest was, or the name of the mother elf was. But I digress.I picked up the DVD becuase, frankly, the movie was pretty good IMO (and I have a lot worse in my collection <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )Well... I've probably seen it in my home 6 times now, and I love it more and more each time. In fact... I freakin' LOVE the movie, characters, setting... everything. I can't wait until the Two Towers comes out. I've watched the new trailor off the official webpage a dozen times now. I wanna BE Aragorn. I wanna BE Legolas. I wanna BE Merry (well... okay, I don't, but anyway). I still love Star Wars and I still think its gets an overly harsh and unjustified rap, but at least Lord of the Rings is something I DO agree with the masses on. So anyway, I'm frantically reading through The Fellowship (for the first time), to get to the Two Towers ... because frankly I want to read it before I see it commited to the Big Screen.Anyway, I really don't know what the point of this post is all about. I THOUGHT I had one, but I guess not. I suppose it would be "Has anyone else been turned on to The Lord of the Rings becuase of the movie"?There, a point.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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