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I'm very well acquanted with Tolkien and his books...

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C.B.

In Reply to: RE: You call that insulting? posted by J.R. on March 17, 2010 at 18:26:18

I've even re-traced many of the rooms and buildings that Tolkien inhabited at Oxford.

I just don't think the films (especially the mind-numbing computer-effects) did justice to his books.

But then, most film adaptations of great literature fall short, don't they?

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Cool. - J.R. 19:22:01 03/17/10 (0)
I wrote my Master's thesis on Tolkien many years ago; it was entitled
"An Annotated Glossary of the Proper Names in the Mythopoeic Fiction of
J.R. Tolkien." I thought Jackson did a pretty fair job with an
extremely difficult task and I thought most of the CG stuff was adequate
especially in the opening battle scenes where the One Ring is taken from
Sauron. With the advances in CG, as evidenced in "Avatar", I would think
that a remaking of LotR would be astonishing. Anyway, I thought Jackson
did rather well the primitive technology at hand. But, hey, I'm hardly
an objective observer. I really wanted to like the films, and I did, but
I've been told I'm a cheap date. Regards,

J.R.

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