LOTR ( was Who really killed DD - The real story)

[Caius Marcius]

> Tonks:
> I do not normally read fiction. HP was an exception. Since I love 
HP 
> and saw the LOTR movie, and know a lot of people who are obsessed 
> with LOTR I tried reading the books. I just could not get past the 
> first few chapters. He invented all of those words that I can not 
> pronounce or remember. 

I half liked LOTR, which I first read even before the Ralph Bakshi 
version was out (terrible movie, but Leonard Rosenman's magnificent 
score far surpasses Howard Shore's musical mediocrity). The sections 
involving Frodo, Sam & Gollum are fraught with superb 
characterization and complex psychological interaction (and it was 
precisely those aspects which the Jackson film was weaker than the 
narrative).  But all those battle/conferencing sequences with 
Gandalf, Boromir, Legolas, et al. were of jaw-locking dullness (but 
were correspondingly far more interesting on screen).  I had the 
exact same reaction upon re-reading the trilogy just before the 
Jackson film release.

I'd rather read Aquinas on the nature of the Trinity any day.

   - CMC