ION, I am leaving very early on Friday morning, to visit my brother and family in Iowa [west des moines] for pre-Thanksgiving over the weekend. It's also my brother's birthday (next week
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I might be the only person in the SCA who had not read the LOTR before the first movie came out. So I went to see the first movie with a bunch of friends, knowing nothing about it. At all.
So they get to that spot (quoted above) in the movie, I am weeping in the theatre...and the movie ends.
I, of course, didn't know it was to be a trilogy, or that there was more coming. I was so mad I couldn't speak. The people I attended with, the guys in the seats in front of us, the people who heard me in the theatre, sat and laughed at me, which, of course, made me more mad - until someone finally broke down and told me to just be patient, more was coming, I just had to wait a year.
I think I tried, once, to read either The Hobbit or the first LOTR book, but was too young to stick it out. Tolkein is not an easy read.
Now that I've watched the movies, I might eventually go back and read the books, since I'll have a sense of the story arc and all that. And more patience!
However, I'd 'heard' the story via Books on Tape because Richard Morgan of Cumberland played them on a trip to Pennsic (all the way there, all the way back with maybe an hour to spare!). Which made it funny to see Ian Holm as Bilbo in the movies - his voice was Frodo on the tapes!
Loving the movie, and actually enjoying Tolkien's style to a point, the first book still took me a month to get through. The other two put together then took me a month.
If you can just slog through FotR, the rest is a very captivating and quick read.
I too had not read the books before the movie came out. My father, however, did require me to read The Hobbit before we went (ok, I was still not quite to the end, but I was close), and he did inform me of the trilogy aspect.
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I might be the only person in the SCA who had not read the LOTR before the first movie came out. So I went to see the first movie with a bunch of friends, knowing nothing about it. At all.
So they get to that spot (quoted above) in the movie, I am weeping in the theatre...and the movie ends.
I, of course, didn't know it was to be a trilogy, or that there was more coming. I was so mad I couldn't speak. The people I attended with, the guys in the seats in front of us, the people who heard me in the theatre, sat and laughed at me, which, of course, made me more mad - until someone finally broke down and told me to just be patient, more was coming, I just had to wait a year.
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I think I tried, once, to read either The Hobbit or the first LOTR book, but was too young to stick it out. Tolkein is not an easy read.
Now that I've watched the movies, I might eventually go back and read the books, since I'll have a sense of the story arc and all that. And more patience!
However, I'd 'heard' the story via Books on Tape because Richard Morgan of Cumberland played them on a trip to Pennsic (all the way there, all the way back with maybe an hour to spare!). Which made it funny to see Ian Holm as Bilbo in the movies - his voice was Frodo on the tapes!
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If you can just slog through FotR, the rest is a very captivating and quick read.
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