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[minuetcat]

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[minuetcat]

I say that all the time--if only the they's would stop anthropomorphizing books (which somehow don't seem like they could have such a holier-than-thou attitude), then the world would be closer to being a just fine place.
I have not read that Orwell book! I simply must...

What was it like being a dishwasher? I've always wondered...

The Hobbit in play form was excellent--the little-kid version of me saw it on a field trip in the 2nd grade.

You're not missing much with RotK...they totally screwed up Faramir and made him kinda evil, which made me murderously angry because Faramir is one of my favorite characters exactly because he's so noble, wise, chivalrous and courteous, and therefore probably also utterly, utterly hot. And in that film he was NOT...he was just all evil for no good reason. They also made Legolas and Gimli into show-offs, which is totally not how they would have been. It WAS very nice to see Sauron get utterly wasted and die a horribly fiery death at the end, though, but then again we somehow expected that to happen.

And yes, The Silmarillion rocks to degrees incapable of coherent description. It starts off kinda boring and slow, but if you stick with it you'll soon be reading about legends and characters that are too epic to contain in your head. This is the reason that a popular metal group made a whole album about it (Blind Guardian--Nightfall of Middle-Earth)! My absolute favorite is The Tale of Beren and Luthien, though the stories of Feanor are pretty high up there too.