tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967623240421279757.post4742968894453529787..comments2023-10-23T06:41:24.218-07:00Comments on notes from La Mancha: ...confessions of a hippie posercatsingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02527167700079425025noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967623240421279757.post-1921570362710347432010-01-11T14:54:14.749-08:002010-01-11T14:54:14.749-08:00BTW... my freshman roommate WAS psychotic... I onc...BTW... my freshman roommate WAS psychotic... I once woke up with a start to discover her watching me...after that, I lived alone...catsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02527167700079425025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967623240421279757.post-71660551551968790582010-01-11T13:37:31.965-08:002010-01-11T13:37:31.965-08:00...had I had the stick-to-it-iveness to actually r......had I had the stick-to-it-iveness to actually read them, I think that I would have been more like you, slogging through it once... not like some of my fantasy fiend friends who loved it, re-read it & practically moved there...;P<br />it'll take me several more viewings to get the character's names straight... <br />interestingly enough, since I'm a big C.S.Lewis fan, I know that he & Tolkien were not only friends but shared their writings during the creation phases, I see a lot of cross-over between certain aspects of Narnia & Middle Earth... [especially the "there will always be an England-ness" of it all...]<br />the time in which they were created being so fraught with a foreboding presence of pure evil & the ultimate triumph of "good", though Tolkien's is much more temporal and Lewis' is spiritual...catsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02527167700079425025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967623240421279757.post-69057577682394897772010-01-11T05:52:57.323-08:002010-01-11T05:52:57.323-08:00Oh, scarcely a "denizen"! I read it onc...Oh, scarcely a "denizen"! I read it once and finished with a sigh of relief, kind of like completing a difficult job you won't have to repeat!The Calico Quilterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01772374749065425388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967623240421279757.post-74453927274525758942010-01-10T17:18:59.303-08:002010-01-10T17:18:59.303-08:00...hi Calico... I was hoping to hear from a Middle......hi Calico... I was hoping to hear from a Middle Earth "denizen" that the films were true to the books... I did really enjoy these films & will enjoy watching them over & over again...catsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02527167700079425025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967623240421279757.post-12927707257793568422010-01-10T13:52:38.210-08:002010-01-10T13:52:38.210-08:00I smiled when you said you had never read the Tolk...I smiled when you said you had never read the Tolkein trilogy. My roommate in college (my sophomore one, who was cool, not the freshman one, who was slightly psychotic) gave it to me for Christmas and that spring I dug in. Boy, I was in for a ride. I left little notes to myself as bookmarks to remind myself of names and places, after a pause of more than a few days I had to reread a chunk before my stopping place to get back into the thing. It was enjoyable but torturous. When the first movie was released, a critic made the comment in his review that these weren't novels, they were a swamp ready to suck you in and watch you die. And that's kind of what I felt like during my long slog through the trilogy. Having said that, I must say I loved the movies and found them very true to the books, as much as you can be without filming a 40 hour monstrosity. And many of the characters were pretty much as I had envisioned them. I think the orcs were even scarier than I had imagined. The director and production designer did an excellent job.The Calico Quilterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01772374749065425388noreply@blogger.com