Would you like to see more "Lord of The Rings" movies or books?

[gunslingingbird]

I don't know much about star trek, but I do know that lovecraft encouraged other people to use his story ideas and never really considered them, or writing at all for that matter, to be a very serious concern. I really don't have any idea how Tolkien would feel about it, but I get the impression that he wasn't all that concerned with publication either, since the majority of the things that he wrote were never completed during his lifetime. As I understand it, he pretty much wrote the Hobbit just for his kids and after it's success the publisher wanted a sequel, which was why he wrote LOTR, which was nearly never published either because he kept revising and adding onto it- eventually ending up as six books, each one about as long as the original Hobbit, and finally completed and published like ten years later.

Yes, that was the case with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but the reason why he started writing about Middle Earth was to give validity to the languages that he had created. Tolkien felt that for a language to have validity as such it was necessary for it to have stories written in it. Most of the stories about Middle Earth were written for himself or for his literary group, The Inklings. C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia were also written for the group.

 

[ArabJames]

i tried watching the first one...but it ran way too long for me...im sure theyre great movies....but as a rule of thumb...the books are usually better

 

[titsrock]

I enjoyed the trilogy very much (even bought the extended DVD versions) but I may not see The Hobbit because I am not that into the book and unless Smaug is awesome there's not much to see.

:yesyes: Exactly. Smaug has to be done incredibly well or the movie bombs. Based on the Peter Jackson LOTR Trilogy...I want a NEW Gollum. I tuned out Gollum whenever he was on screen. Since he has a huge part of The Hobbit book...he better be much weirder and creepier...less scrawny annoying douchebag like he was in LOTR films...:2 cents:

 

[Patrick_S]

One thing everyone can be thankful for is that Peter Jackson didn´t include all the singing that´s in The Lord of The Rings. That book is like a fucking musical, every second page some god damned smurf is bursting into song.

 

[broderic_randal]

i have never read the books or seen the movie

 

[METAL HEAD]

no i can't belive i had too sit through the frist three flims that was it for me!!!!!!!!

 

[Facial_King]

No.