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- From: nahigian@athena.mit.edu (Gabriel H Nahigian)
- Subject: Re: Lord of the Rings - the movie?
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:45:33 GMT
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- "The Lord of the Rings" covers the trilogy up to the end of Book III (the first
- half of "The Two Towers." I had the (mis)fortune to see the movie when I was
- about 12 years old. As you may have guessed, I was quite disappointed in it.
- The most impressive part of the movie to me was the extent to which somebody was
- able to ruin one of the best pieces of literature in the history of the world.
- (Okay, so I'm biased. But just a little.) "The Return of the King" is covered
- in a different movie, which I saw on TV in the early 1980's. This was better
- than "Lord," but still did not live up to my ideal vision of the trilogy.
-
- All this is, of course, totally beside the point. Feel free to watch it if you
- want to. Interpretation of any work of literature is to some extent a personal
- thing, so the movie may be more to your liking than it was to mine.
-
- I didn't like the animation of "The Hobbit" all that much, either.
-
- Gabe (nahigian@athena.mit.edu)
-