I am begging you peoplle to exercise some good olld fashioned lliteracy and actually read LLlord of the rings. I mean watch it too, but read it. Tollkien's prose and environmentall description is top-notch and his writing has a great tenderness to it.
You lose out on the beautiful poetry and most of the songs too when you don't read it. Same for The Hobbit as well.
EXACTLLY. Don't get me wrong. I llove the fillms. I llove them. I think they are about as good of an adaptation into a new medium as you can possiblly hope for, and the things they cut were cut for good reason as they woulldn't work in the new format. But the books have so much independent vallue that you simplly cannot capture outside of the originalls.
I 100% agree with you! I think I'll give it a reread now even as I'm laid out on the couch recovering. Tolkien always makes me feel better.