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Never read the books, and always wondered where the game industry got it's love of Orcs, Elves, Dwarves and all things mystical. These things have all captivaed me as an avid gamesplayer over the years, from the early days of the original Warcraft game, right up until I played Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance on the PS2, but not once did I suspect these creatures came from a vast and spectacular world of literature.
If there is one thing this film has done, it's opened my eyes and broadened my horizons. Before I was niave, I liked these things, but I never bothered to look into them, I simply accepted them, and continued on living, and if it wasn't for this film, I would never have known the difference. But it has happened, and this film was truely an epic. Where Braveheart took acts of fact, spiced them with a little fiction, and made one of the most epic movies of good versus evil of all time, Tolkein wrote a story, which has all the same qualities, and on film could be translated into the masterpiece of our generation.
People can look at me and say I will only read the book because of the film, and how right they are, for the first time ever, a film may change an aspect of my life forever, I will actually start to read books. I've never really been a book or film person, and I never really appreciated a good story until recently, I was far too busy playing arcade styled simple games. I only really opened my eyes to what could be found in books when I studies Latin at school, and more importantly Aeneis' journey into the underworld. This stroy has everything Tolkein's epic has too, but was penned over 2000 years ago, a true testament to the fact that good fiction could stand the test of time. As Virgil was comissioned to write the Aeneid to give the people of Rome a sense of being after a civil war, Tolkein's story seems to have that same atmosphere surrounding it, and it will hopefully be a story which will be embraced by many more people because of the film.
There is only one down side to the Film being made, and that is EA have aquired the rights for the games, generic, boring, rushed adventured game, half baked in a Tomb Raider mould, I suspect....
If there is one thing this film has done, it's opened my eyes and broadened my horizons. Before I was niave, I liked these things, but I never bothered to look into them, I simply accepted them, and continued on living, and if it wasn't for this film, I would never have known the difference. But it has happened, and this film was truely an epic. Where Braveheart took acts of fact, spiced them with a little fiction, and made one of the most epic movies of good versus evil of all time, Tolkein wrote a story, which has all the same qualities, and on film could be translated into the masterpiece of our generation.
People can look at me and say I will only read the book because of the film, and how right they are, for the first time ever, a film may change an aspect of my life forever, I will actually start to read books. I've never really been a book or film person, and I never really appreciated a good story until recently, I was far too busy playing arcade styled simple games. I only really opened my eyes to what could be found in books when I studies Latin at school, and more importantly Aeneis' journey into the underworld. This stroy has everything Tolkein's epic has too, but was penned over 2000 years ago, a true testament to the fact that good fiction could stand the test of time. As Virgil was comissioned to write the Aeneid to give the people of Rome a sense of being after a civil war, Tolkein's story seems to have that same atmosphere surrounding it, and it will hopefully be a story which will be embraced by many more people because of the film.
There is only one down side to the Film being made, and that is EA have aquired the rights for the games, generic, boring, rushed adventured game, half baked in a Tomb Raider mould, I suspect....
elves and dwarves have been around in varios books even before LOTR. orcs i think are completly made up by Tolkien.
Read the books. You will be amazed.
Read the books. You will be amazed.
Never read the books, and always wondered where the game industry got it's love of Orcs, Elves, Dwarves and all things mystical. These things have all captivaed me as an avid gamesplayer over the years, from the early days of the original Warcraft game, right up until I played Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance on the PS2, but not once did I suspect these creatures came from a vast and spectacular world of literature.
If there is one thing this film has done, it's opened my eyes and broadened my horizons. Before I was niave, I liked these things, but I never bothered to look into them, I simply accepted them, and continued on living, and if it wasn't for this film, I would never have known the difference. But it has happened, and this film was truely an epic. Where Braveheart took acts of fact, spiced them with a little fiction, and made one of the most epic movies of good versus evil of all time, Tolkein wrote a story, which has all the same qualities, and on film could be translated into the masterpiece of our generation.
People can look at me and say I will only read the book because of the film, and how right they are, for the first time ever, a film may change an aspect of my life forever, I will actually start to read books. I've never really been a book or film person, and I never really appreciated a good story until recently, I was far too busy playing arcade styled simple games. I only really opened my eyes to what could be found in books when I studies Latin at school, and more importantly Aeneis' journey into the underworld. This stroy has everything Tolkein's epic has too, but was penned over 2000 years ago, a true testament to the fact that good fiction could stand the test of time. As Virgil was comissioned to write the Aeneid to give the people of Rome a sense of being after a civil war, Tolkein's story seems to have that same atmosphere surrounding it, and it will hopefully be a story which will be embraced by many more people because of the film.
There is only one down side to the Film being made, and that is EA have aquired the rights for the games, generic, boring, rushed adventured game, half baked in a Tomb Raider mould, I suspect....
If there is one thing this film has done, it's opened my eyes and broadened my horizons. Before I was niave, I liked these things, but I never bothered to look into them, I simply accepted them, and continued on living, and if it wasn't for this film, I would never have known the difference. But it has happened, and this film was truely an epic. Where Braveheart took acts of fact, spiced them with a little fiction, and made one of the most epic movies of good versus evil of all time, Tolkein wrote a story, which has all the same qualities, and on film could be translated into the masterpiece of our generation.
People can look at me and say I will only read the book because of the film, and how right they are, for the first time ever, a film may change an aspect of my life forever, I will actually start to read books. I've never really been a book or film person, and I never really appreciated a good story until recently, I was far too busy playing arcade styled simple games. I only really opened my eyes to what could be found in books when I studies Latin at school, and more importantly Aeneis' journey into the underworld. This stroy has everything Tolkein's epic has too, but was penned over 2000 years ago, a true testament to the fact that good fiction could stand the test of time. As Virgil was comissioned to write the Aeneid to give the people of Rome a sense of being after a civil war, Tolkein's story seems to have that same atmosphere surrounding it, and it will hopefully be a story which will be embraced by many more people because of the film.
There is only one down side to the Film being made, and that is EA have aquired the rights for the games, generic, boring, rushed adventured game, half baked in a Tomb Raider mould, I suspect....