Posted: September 16, 1999 at 09:47:34: by Olorin
: Cleaning up (at my girlfriend's instigation) I found my videotape with "Willow" which I sat down to see. I loved it back when I last saw it some years ago, and I still do now- I rank it, just above "Ladyhawke" and "Braveheart" (for the fighting), as the best fantasy film I have seen. Then I tried searchin the web for any info on it and I discover that it is actually the first part of a series of books (the film flopped so G.L. started writing instead it seems), the books are calle "Shadowmoon". Now does anybody here know of them? and are they worth reading?
: Coincidentally, was "Willow" not filmed in New Zealand as P.J. is? (and why have G.L. never taken up the gauntlet of filming LotR?).
: Neithan TurambarI've never read them, but a friend of mine read them a few years back. She enjoyed them, but said that they were basically pulp. (As a comparison, her favorite books were the Dragon Lance novels.) This is, of course, assuming you're willing to take literature reviews from a fourteen-year-old. PS - Ladyhawke is MUCH better than Willow (and I'm not one of those Willow-bashers)
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