RE: So I watched Lord of the Rings for the first time and....
April 27, 2016 at 12:01 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2016 at 12:13 pm by Aroura.)
Gollum is awesome. I loved the casting and the gorgeous New Zealand scenery. I think the LotR trilogy did as well as could be expected adapting those books.
If you don't like fantasy, what the hell possessed you to attempt watching 9+ hours of high fantasy? And if you did not find Gandalf fighting the Balrog to be epic, then again, why the hell are you watching these films anyway? The Balrog was wonderfully rendered! Very much as I had imagined it only freaking scarier.
My father actually read my little brother and me The Hobbit when I was about 8, and I read his copies of lotr (a green leather bound set with gold runes and notes on the languages inside, which made it even more fascinating for me) at about 12 or 13. So exposure early in life combined with fond memories are part of it for me. However, it is one of the top selling books in the history of the world (and the movies are still in the top 10 grossing of all time), so I think it's a pretty wide spread phenomenon, and people who truly find them boring must be few and far between.
If you don't like fantasy, what the hell possessed you to attempt watching 9+ hours of high fantasy? And if you did not find Gandalf fighting the Balrog to be epic, then again, why the hell are you watching these films anyway? The Balrog was wonderfully rendered! Very much as I had imagined it only freaking scarier.
My father actually read my little brother and me The Hobbit when I was about 8, and I read his copies of lotr (a green leather bound set with gold runes and notes on the languages inside, which made it even more fascinating for me) at about 12 or 13. So exposure early in life combined with fond memories are part of it for me. However, it is one of the top selling books in the history of the world (and the movies are still in the top 10 grossing of all time), so I think it's a pretty wide spread phenomenon, and people who truly find them boring must be few and far between.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
