What do you all think of Lord of the Rings?

I read The Lord of the Rings books and the Hobbit. I also have the extended blu-ray movies and they are closer to the books than most movies. I love it!

I thought the LOTR movies were cool, never read the books. Ain't nobody got time for that.

I had time for that.

Dallas-Arbiter said:

I thought the LOTR movies were cool, never read the books. Ain't nobody got time for that.

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Tosh.0???

Words cannot express how much I love LOTR. Great films, still some of the best ever imho. I don't care what any of you people say, Peter Jackson was greaaat for the films even with his slasher film close-ups.

In terms of lore and what not, LOTR>TES, I mean the dude came up with fluffing functional languages even for his books, I don't know what to call that but that is intense. I just wish the LOTR vidya games weren't the worse thing to ever exist, ever. (minus a couple of em)

I did try to read the books, I tried so hard. THEY WERE SO fluffING HARD TO READ OMG. I got to the second page and was like, lolnope. It's just the way he writes them, I just can't get into it and maybe its because I was pretty young. (I've always been a good reader, though, I thought I was up for the challenge.)

Crooksin said:

I just wish the LOTR vidya games weren't the worse thing to ever exist, ever. (minus a couple of em)

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I had such high hopes for War in the North...

Ragnvaldr said:

I had such high hopes for War in the North...

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When I said "a couple of em", one of those I meant was War in The North, lol. Not a great game on its own, but compared to other LOTR games, it was definitely at least playable lmao. I'm still shaking my head at Lord of The Rings: Conquest, gawd damn it that plops was bad. I didn't mind Battle for Middle Earth, but I think they could've made it 100x better. (Like model the game system after Age of Empires or somethin.)

thatwudbryan said:

Tosh.0???

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No, not Tosh. I don't watch him, It's from the Sweet Brown video on You tube. In all seriousness I did read one Tolkien book, I can't remember the name, but it was more of a viking thing, it was written in short stanzas. My dog literally ate it before I could very far into it.

I read them back in the early 70's. I read every thing I could get my hands on back then. Even the Silmarillion(690 pages). Back then nobody knew what a Hobbit was, and those of us who played Dungeons and Dragons were called devil worshipers.

I'm not too keen on the new Hobbit movie, but it's still better than anything JJ Abrahams makes.

harry potter is always great....lord of the rings is just ok

I like the Lord of the Rings. Watched the marathon yesterday and I love the soundtrack. Never read the books though.

I read all of the following books and like them all:

Harry Potter series
Narnia series
Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit
Twilight series
Hunger Games trilogy
Ender's Game series

Regarding the movies, all of them were good, but Twilight was the worst of them. Ender's Game was not made into a movie.

Lord of the Rings is obviously a rip off of Harry Potter. There's even a wizard in it.

No it isn't! The Lord of the Rings books were written long before Harry Potter.

I was obsessed with LOTR books during my late childhood and early teens and I'm still a huge fan of anything Tolkien. I was 11 when the first movie came out and I absolutely loved it - not because it was better than the book (it wasn't), but because it was amazing considering the source material. Tolkien's writing style and the amount of information he puts in his work makes it hard for a director to make a decent flick based on his work. Some of the things that worked in the books wouldn't have worked in the movies and Jackson knew what to leave out for the most part.

Well, I got the Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring for Christmas. So far I love the Hobbit. I also noticed that while this book (the Hobbit) was intended for children, there was a lot of death (Gandalf + goblins/wargs= death). No children's book today could have that in it haha. Anyway, I am really entranced by what I have read so far and I cannot wait to read the rest of the series and watch the movies. Also, is the Silmarillion any good?

Currently listening to the Lord of the Rings film score on Pandora, if that tells you anything.

Man, this thread makes me feel old. LOTR. What D&D was based on, what helped give birth to RPGs. And people on a Skyrim forum are like "meh". Heh. I hope all you young whipper-snappers appreciate what you have nowadays, not having to have to read to have fun.

I have a lifetime love for LOTR. I've read the books several times when I was younger. I saw the animated Hobbit film when I was a kid and it scarred me for life (it was a lot spookier than Jackson's LOTR films)--but in a good way. I wrote stories as a kid and teen inspired by it (call it "proto-fanfic"). I then re-read whole trilogy in one weekend in college on a dare from some fellow RPG geeks. I've also read the Hobbit in German. And all that well before the films came out, which I of course went to see...alone...because I read the books and I knew Frodo and Sam were gong to make me cry and I didn't want anyone I know see me cry so much over hobbits...

Seriously, just re-act that scene with Sam calling out to Frodo at the end of FOTR and I'll start tearing up...

When I first got into gaming, it was a time when you didn't have an option to not be a LOTR fan if you were into RPGs. It was CANON. It still is.

Respect your ancestry.

Another of the big influences for modern fantasy games was the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series by Fritz Leiber. A lot of the Thief role is derived from those series of books.

We should make an essential reading list. Fantasy history 101.

The Shannara series of Terry Brooks is another good one. The first book is kind of a ripoff of The Lord of the Rings, but after that really sets itself apart.