Peter Hackson took the greatest work of literature of the 20th century and turned it into soulless dungeons and dragons action schlock full of marvel quip dialogue, and you retards defend it because you saw it when you were young.
>>219845778>greatest work of literature of the 20th centuryHahahahaHahahHaYeaaaaah.
yeah but its well made schlock
>>219845822Ermm awkward?
>>219845822Let me guess, you're one of those people who thinks Ulysses is the greatest thing ever written because your English 200 professor told you so?
>>219845778>turned it into soulless dungeons and dragons action schlockIts crazy how many people have never read the books
>>219845778>the greatest work of literature of the 20th centuryI like LotR but you need to read more books.
the real problem is that he emasculated all the main characters
>>219845861>It's the best book ever because... I read it when I was youngYou're the exact same kind of guy that OP decries.
>>219845778>Arwen on all three posters>Theoden not to be seen once
>>219845941I didn't read LOTR till I was in my early 20s>>219845931Which books do you think deserve that title more?
>>219845778>soullessYou just went full retard
Most people who had read the books shat on it back when it aired. I thought it was okay. Could have been better though
>>219845934It would have been even worse if he had kept Stuart Townsend as Aragorn.
yeah the movies needed more songs
>>219845861No. Just knowledge that Tolkien was a hack who stole his best ideas from Germanic/Norse culture/folklore/myth and jammed some catholic slop in there.
>>219846165There is no "catholic slop" in there
>>219846165You're right. Good authors shouldn't take from centuries of tradition and culture, and instead focus on modern topical issues like fighting racism and changing your gender
>>219845778The casting, battles and music are too good. They couldn't make this right now.
>>219846165>stoleOdd way of saying he intricately synthesized multiple Germanic, Anglo, and Scandinavian mythologies into a single coherent narrative and successfully blended both pagan and Christian conceptions of heroism. It's not like he was a world-renowed professor and scholar on both languages and myths prior to writing Hobbit and LotR, you fucking idiot.
>>219846165>stole ideasAnd now they're not available to anyone else? Listen to yourself you retard. Ideas can be copied, adapted, inspired by. Never stolen.
>>219845778Harry Potter is way way WAY superior.They shouldn't have excluded Bombadil.
>>219845822i mean it factually is
>>219846926I'm actually in awe at how inflammatory this troll post is.
>>219845778It is the definition of soul. Every frame, every word, every shot is just pure soul. It was the dying breath of humanity.
>>219845778There hasn’t been any mainstream release with as much soul as this trilogy since. The lows are still higher than most things that followed. In fact, I might even go as far as to say that Fellowship was the last true example of good mainstream cinema. Nothing has come close since, even the rest of the trilogy.
>>219846440>Ideas can be copied, adapted, inspired by. Never stolen.nta but shit gets stolen all the time
>>219843880>>219845778organic
>>219848104> twilight but with niggers When are they going to do a zombie movies but with niggers?
>>219846165Quintessentially american post. Tolkien is a bong they are a germanic culture. He can't steal his own culture.
>>219846165I wouldn't say he's a stealing hack. He translated old texts that hadn't been understood for centuries, and more importantly, made a unified myth for Europeans to rally to. It's no coincidence that (((they've))) set their sites on defaming his work over the past couple years. These movies aren't perfect but they might be the greatest thing the west accomplishes before it winds up crushed under the weight of the third world and pedo elites.
>>219848469Tolkien's name is even of German origin, it comes from the German word "Tollkühn" meaning "daring" or "daredevil".
>>219848469>Quintessentially american postwhite liberals are no longer allowed to be identified as americans, let alone human
>>219845778I agree that under most criteria the LotR trilogy would be classified as slop.HOWEVERThe difference between slop and nonslop is the earnestness. And several factors elevated it from common slop:>Viggo, Ian (both), and Elijah's performances>Howard Shore's OST>WETA Workshop's armour design, physical sets, and practical effects>physical filming locationsAll working in unison and not disparately.These things save it from being slop.It's a fine line to be sure.
>>219848415It's divide and conquer to try to get fans to sit back and say 'huh guess they aren't so great' and discourage new fans from checking them out with sincerity. It's pretty fake and gay, and I guess they assume getting the 'right wing nerds' to relinquish it will make their new fanfic slop more successful with young ghetto demographics or some shit.
