I love LOTR

[Rosie Gamgee]

Hullo!
I've decided not to base my like on just one person because it makes no sense to love someone who doesn't exist or someone who you are never going to meet.:p
Anywho, I love the Lord of the Rings because it's a world, not just a story!!!! Why do you love it?????????

Post please!!!:thumbs:


Namarie

:elfqueen: **Rosie**

[Rosie Gamgee]

Hullo Merry!!! I know youre here!!!!

:elfqueen: **Rosie**

[Merry Monaghan]

Mwahaha!!! I am here!

[Merry Monaghan]

:wave: Hullo Rosie!

Hmmm... why do I like LOTR...

I love LOTR because the genius Tolkien pours into this exciting world called Middle-earth is absolutely exhilerating! The loveable characters, the detailed places, the languages, and everything simply captures the imagination and takes you to a whole other world.

I love the movie because PJ captures Tolkien's genius like no other! The acting and choice of cast is brilliant! I love the costumes (especially Merry's) and places that so much work has been put into. It's amazing!!!

[Tar-Ancalimë]

I love it because the whole entire thing--all of it!--was made just for a setting to say "Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo!"

Heh... that's my main reason... because it's a story to go with a setting... not a setting which was made to go with a story.

Other reasons include the excellence of the setting... (and the story....)
I was brought up on Tolkien... and it gets better every day...
Another thing that made me love the books a little bit more was the movie. After seeing the movie for the first time, i reread the books... and it was amazing how much the movie enhanced them. I followed the story a whole lot better... things flowed... and the hugest plus, every time Boromir (and Legolas) came up in the books, I would see Sean (and Orli) in my mind... :drool:

[Akiba]

I just love it cuse it's so real everything is so perfectly planned out like a real world type thing and it's just so magically different it's just it like really feels like midle earth actually could exist ya know I really can't explain it it's weird but yeah it Rocks!!

[Bonos-Girl]

i love it cos its a real history...it isn't fiction...there is an entire middle earth with languages, an people, and lands..its a whole different place....

[Mirkgirl]

I love it because I love it... if I can give a clear reason why I love something, I just don't love it enough ;)
But I prefer the images I have in my head to the ones from the movie. I try not to think for the movie, when reading the book, the movie was a nice extra, but the book and the images it creates in your own head is what I really love

[Lady Ashley]

You go, Mirkgirl!! Movie's cool...but nothing can replace seeing it for yourself. Gee, I still see Merry and Pippin (sometimes Sam too) and others as I always saw them in the beginning. Movie adds to the book, not the other way around. What was amazing was how much I imagined at first was in the movie. Tolkien was that vivid and detailed.

But they need the songs in the movie. At least one or two. Like someone said at a website, PJ didn't want to create LOTR: The Musical.

Tolkien's world is just so...real and you wanna keep reading the book once you read one sentence. It's appealing because it's so different, yet still the same. People die in his books. Most fantasy everyone lives happily ever after. His work is sad sometimes...heart-wrenching. I mean, the Elves are leaving...I don't want them to leave, yet they do and you feel sad for the old and beautiful going away forever.

A different world, yet still real. I see Middle-Earth everywhere....that field over there could be Rohan or The Shire. That waterfall could be from Rivendell. That river could be the Anduin.

It's just plain interesting. A break from the modern world. Swords iand bows nstead of guns, horses instead of cars...And he treats M.E. like it was real, not like something to be explained. It's a history! I love history. There are those 'distant mountains' like references to Gondolin and the Elder Days. Gee, don't they sound so interesting? I've read The Silmarillion and it's kinda nice to know what he's talking about, though it also nice to get that "old" feeling.

I'm just rattling on and on here. But who cares?

But enough for now.

GO MR. TOLKIEN!!