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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Martin freeman. He also played someone important in lord of the rings I think. yadda yadda, both are better in print.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed it is. I thought frodo initially but no. Bilbo. Bilbo is kinda mean in lotr. Ruined by the ring.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, both are exceptionally better in print, though I posit that LoTR is more palatable to a wider audience in movie-form; the books read like an account of a history of a world (which, as we know, it definitely is and was intended to be a history and not a story) but the movie makes it easier to understand, strains out the songs or adds them in better ways than recounting them over pages and pages ahah

The Silmarillion should be many many films, one or multiple for each chapter. Just Luthien and Beren are a few films, and Turin Turumbar would be like watching a shakespeare tragedy lol!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Controversial! I have so much to say about this looool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what's a few boats and a little genocide

They were his sparklies, his!! He did everything for them. Ingrates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

aw man, the teleri didn't deserve to be murdered for their boats lol