[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Very quietly wondering...LOTR apathy?

[Catherine Keegan]

>--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> >> OK, I confess.  I admit it.  Don't tell anyone, but I am apparently
> > too much of a lightweight to be interested in LoTR.  I tried, and
> > found it downright painful reading.  (I had the same problem
> > with "Dune.")
> > Cindy

It's worth seeing.  The soundtrack is wonderful.  (Let's can John Williams 
and use this fellow for PoA!   He sets a scene very well and only 
overwhelms it occasionally.)  Great set dressing.  I still don't feel a 
thing for any of the characters but I didn't in the books, either.

Now, I loved Dune, but only the first book.  Huge, ponderous, 
self-important and unintentionally funny at times, it was one of my first 
huge SF novels.

Tip: try not to see LotR with a big Tolkien fan.  I'm married to one and 
got a non stop lecture about the differences between film and book, what 
was better, what this thingy here meant, the languages (which were pretty 
darn cool), the histories from all of the other books, etc... all the way 
home and for quite a bit afterwards.  It was cute but I've already heard 
all about it for weeks.  I wasn't this bad about the HP 
movie.  No!  Honest!  He's settled back into his trilogy which means I can 
put my nose back into GoF and have ammo when I get teased about my obsession.

Happy Holidays!
Catherine in California