yesssss, precious. we see that nasty "C'Pi" <jas221@yahoo.com> writing:

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C'Pi
Here, AFS, Tolkien newsgroups, I don't remember. I've been around.

The Tolkien newsgroups are fun to read. I start swaying back and forth and crying when I try to understand some of the more intricate Silmarillion threads and such, but the anti-movie stuff from the purists is comedy gold.

Which for me sums up LOTR. It's eye candy. Very nice eye candy but eye candy none the less. That is what everybody condemned TPM for. All

little story or emotion. Well that is how I came away from LOTR. I

it. But after all the praise and people saying this is how TPM should

been, I was expecting to see a more emotionally developed story. It

there. Now for people that have already read the books it may have been there since they could fill in what was missing,

I think this is the main problem. There was just SO much to FotR that in order to include a good slice of what was in the book, some things had to be spread fairly thin. But if you have read the books, less character development is needed and little things like the statues of the kings take on a whole new level.