Posted: April 07, 2000 at 17:39:24: by Dave aka Don Quixote
: : : : : A thought to all those of you who worry that the film will ruin
: : : : : Tolkein and your image of him and his works.
: : : : : Look at the amount of space being taken up on this board by the
: : : : : movie and associated topics already.
: : : : : Too late, the movie is already taking over.: : : : It's a pleasant break from Balrog Wings, Elf Ears, and Racism in Tolkien, if you ask me. : : : I don't believe we've had any discussions on any of those subjects for months. : : : Actually, since I came here in December, there has only been one discussion on rascism, one on Elves, and none on the others. And the two that I mentioned were started by an inexperienced fool who never looked through the archives for anything on the subject (me, in fact). : : And about 30,000 on the infernal movie, my point exactly : I wish we could go back to discussing the minute points of Tolkien's works. By the time RotK airs almost everyone here will have rither moved far, far away to avoid publicity and "pop-culturization" of LotR or commited suicide rather than see what Jackson has done with the story; and that's me assuming that Xenite.Org will still be in existance by that time. : Also, no one seems to bring up the other Inklings any more. Why not? They are disappearing into the Vacuosity of the modern world, they are no longer understood or loved by the heartless, money grabbing selfish commercialists that populate this planet.
Any point you wish to discuss, bring it on! Lets talk about what Valinor is like, or how many Elves lived through the Fourth Age, or why Samwise was so interested in ropes......
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