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How would YOU have ended Lord of the Rings?

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Notaperson:
Movie 1: "And now Frodo, let you be on your quest to destroy the one ring, oh and heres a giant hawk to carry you all of the way there, should make it a lot easier."

Ring is destroyed and Frodo rides off with two really busty babes.


I know, i was a born movie writer, i just can't be bothered getting off the couch.

datora:
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"Can you imagine what it would be like if we had walked the entire way ..?"

"Don't be silly!" "OMG!"

[lolz lolz]

"No! One of us might have died!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh06CoC7th8

Proin Drakenzol:

--- Quote from: Fool010 on February 26, 2011, 01:42:41 PM ---I'll state it again, Tolkien was a great creator but his writing skills weren't at par, which is kinda understandable as he wasn't an author but rather was a scholar who dabbled into literature. I once thought LOTR was the greatest thing I've ever read, then downgraded it to masterpiece and finally came to my present great -but flawed- stance.
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It created the genre. Naturally it's going to seem "stale" after you've read a million other books in the genre it created.


--- Quote ---@ freidax : that's kinda obvious. I still like the trilogy, but I grew out of the blind admiration phase.

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You grew out of knowing what is great, then.

Fool010:

--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on February 28, 2011, 09:16:03 AM ---You grew out of knowing what is great, then.

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If by great you mean blindly oblivious of flaws, then yes ... I forgot what greatness is.

It wasn't even the first high fantasy I've ever read. I began reading sci-fi and fantasy somewhere around 1975-76 and first read LOTR in my first highschool year in 1979-80.

It didn't grow stale after reading other books, it did after reading them again.

xfreidax:
I think that's the beauty of any creation. We can never know for sure what was intended. If you strip it down to the core of things, that's all there is to it. It's a form of expression. A sum of who that person is and how he looks at things. Try as we may to shoehorn his expression into our own framework, ultimately it fails because that's not the point. So what is the point? The point is to make us think. To challenge what we take for granted and to make our own sense of our crazy existence.

I think in every generation, there are works that capture our imagination because it's honest and true to who we are. Even in escape, what we try to escape from is mirrored in our imagination and gives form to our fantasy.

Tolkien. Is he a master storyteller? Yes he is. He sucked us in with the world he created and from that world, we each took home that sense of wonderment that fuels our own little creations. And at the end of the day, that's all that matters. Once you take a piece of work and start to rationalize it through your own lens, that's when it starts falling apart.

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