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Originally Posted by Pisces
Well, I'm even later to the party. In that year I wasn't even thought of yet. My parents didn't even know about eachother yet. Though around 1985 I played a game on this thing that was based on the story. But I had been totaly oblivious to the existance of the LOTR lore until 'THE movies' came out. Once I saw the first movie I immediately bought the english version of the trilogy book. (like everyone else  ) The dutch translation contained such strange malformed names of the people and place, I was never going to read that. But yeah, since then I've been a bit lazy with reading. The Silmarilion and the Hobbit are catching dust. Hopefully the fire of Mount Doom will be rekindled in the comming years.
I've also still got the german version of Das Boot catching dust in the book cupboard. How naive I was when I tried reading it in it's original tongue. (Yeah, I set high standards to my self.) |
I know people my age and older who never read the books (and barely knew they existed) before they saw the first movie. And they got hooked as well, now they love the books because of the movies and not the other way 'round.
Which told me right off what a fantastic job Jackson did, since it clearly wasn't just Tolkien geeks who thought the movies were awesome.