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« on: August 24, 2006, 02:48:37 AM »
i've been trying forever to get my girlfriend to read anything lord of the rings. on her birthday like 3 years ago, she got the hobbit... i was excited, because i thought she would read it... but she never finished it. finally now, she is letting me read it to her, and i read her the first chapter tonight. so now i'm excited.
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« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2006, 03:32:50 PM »
So, it'll be like a "book on tape", except the narrator is in person!   Wink
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« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2006, 11:45:59 AM »
yeah, but the reader doesn't have as good of a narrator's voice.
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« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2006, 07:32:49 PM »
Thats a very interesting tactic. I like it!!! I have ben trying to get a lot of my friends to read th books but they just wont do it. Maybe oneday ill have a public Lotr reading
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« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2006, 02:51:01 AM »
so far we've gone through the first three chapters. she likes it so far, which means she'll like the rest, since the first three chapters are pretty slow compared to how good the rest of it gets. she keeps saying things like, 'woah, so that never happened in the movies?' 'the movies make that part go by so fast! the book says so much more about this!' it's kind of funny..

she's excited about tom bombadil, because she took an online personality test and turned out to be him. i told her he was coming up soon, and she got happy.
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« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2006, 03:09:24 PM »
How cool is that, good job on hooking one more. You gotta love Tom Bombadil, the moies disappoint me in that they didnt add him
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« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2006, 07:13:12 PM »
I think the movies didn't want to go to far off and bore the movie viewers. I thought it was a good idea to cut off the parts at Buckland and Old Forest. But they could've changed the Barrow Downs a bit. Like Tom Bombadil newly meeting them by rescuing them from the Barrow Wights would've been cool(Since the Barrow Wights could've gave a scare).
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« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2006, 12:27:02 PM »
their reasoning for cutting out tom bombadil, old forest, and barrow downs was because they didn't want the beginning to take very long. movie-wise, it would have been a very long introduction.

i disagree with most of the changes in the movie, i agree with some, but most of them i wish they'd just leave the same....
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« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2006, 01:47:47 PM »
Totally, I know why they did, I just wish they would have done it and added to the extended or something
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« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2006, 01:18:21 AM »
i just have faith that one day in heaven i'll meet tolkien, and he'll unveil his masterpiece motion picture of lord of the rings.
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« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2006, 06:41:58 AM »
You and me both, and all of us Tolkien fans will watch it together, singing HALLELUJAH(thinks i spelled that right), wonder if there will be popcorn in Heaven
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« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2006, 03:04:12 PM »
   Heaven!  I LOVE Heaven! ...Popcorn all around!  lol.

   Yeah, I was pretty disappointed that they didn't put ol' Tom in the movies.
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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2006, 09:33:27 AM »
Quote from: Amroth on October 09, 2006, 03:04:12 PM
   Yeah, I was pretty disappointed that they didn't put ol' Tom in the movies.
i was deeply bummed out also
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« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2006, 04:43:40 PM »
If you ask me, i dont think it mattered if he wasnt part of the story of the ring, he wasa timeless character, and it would be like taking salt off potato chips, you can eat them without it, but they are much better without it
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« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2006, 04:23:00 PM »
Quote from: Gil Galad on October 26, 2006, 04:43:40 PM
it would be like taking salt off potato chips, you can eat them without it, but they are much better without it
that is an asome phrase
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