Comments on: There Once Was A Man From Kirkjuvágr

By: GamleJAS

GamleJAS — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:52:18 +0000

Read LoTR in 3 days. Took me 8 years to read the book of the film of Star Wars 'cos the first page was so boring I kept giving up.
Tolkien wrote in different styles in each of his works. LoTR is a great piece of writing craftsmanship and a relatively mediocre work of storytelling as it meanders to much from the main thrust of the story to keep it's readers wrapped up. Did miss Tom Bombadil in the films though.

By: Lesharo

Lesharo — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:27:50 +0000

"Oh, great, another 30 page 'song' about places and people that have no bearing on the story…"

By: Fren

Fren — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:31:43 +0000

Hindsight's a mutha. Dude was all hot over LOtR and your comic wasn't even based on that, just on JRR's son basically looking for SOMETHING, ANYTHING of his father's to chop up, reassemble and publish as "new material". Making a surfboard out of his old man's laurels.

That said, I'm a LOtR geek myself. Alright, I didn't learn Sindarin. You got me there. But really, considering not just the story itself (which is amazing), or the setting it bore, or it's purpose … think of the impact it had on all things fantasy. Without LOtR, you've got no D&D. Warhammer Fantasy probably wouldn't have existed. On and on.

By: Fren

Fren — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:24:40 +0000

Aww, take it easy on ol' Tom. He could blast yer arse from the memory of history if he could but find the motivation.

By: Fren

Fren — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:22:24 +0000

Dear sweet Ea, the beginning of the Two Towers dragged on. And on. And on. That's the bit I appreciated about the film. I didn't need to see an hour of "we're running and it sucks there's a rock in my foot and I'm hungry and cold and we're running and it sucks the way to Mordor sure is long I'm hungry we're running and it sucks".

It's funny that bit got stuck in my head. It was the fourth horror of the Fire Swamp.

By: tejasrichard

tejasrichard — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:10:43 +0000

Should have said "and not just through addition"

By: Tejasrichard

Tejasrichard — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:09:19 +0000

I hate the movies. They are beautiful, the costumes are incredible, the acting was great…. but they bastardized the books. Ad not just through edition… I fully understand that not everything could be included…. but the changes to the story itself (having Gandalf and Strider change sides in the argument about going in to Moria, or the scene they added with the warg-riders where Aragorn falls into the river, are the first 2 that spring to mind) are unforgivable.

By: thiro tiknapa

thiro tiknapa — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:53:02 +0000

tolkien is not,I repeat,not J.K.Rowling.He is not dan brown.He is not (great eru!!!) an (alleged ) writer whose initials are S.M(no points for guessing).

Tolkien never tried to write an easily digestible,fun to read,happy fantasy.LotR isn’t what you can call a nice book.It passes off on wild tangents;It’s filled with mind-numbing and boring details.Yet we must remember that jrrt never saw his works as mere novels;for him they were experiments in creating records for new worlds with mythology and literature as rich and gloriously detailed as ours.

Besides,lotr is meant to be read as a translation of frodo’s writings.If tolkien used medieval records as a model for this,I think he succeeded(i believe that’s the understatement of the century).

By: zenlemming

zenlemming — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:20:21 +0000

Big fan of the books here, I think they're an order of magnitude better than anything else in the genre. They weren't written for the ADD generation, that's for sure.

By: Legendaryratboy

Legendaryratboy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:58:32 +0000

I have to step in and add another factoid; Tolkien's absolute dedication to complete and utter mastery of (admitedly excessive at times) detail is exactly what gave birth to such a specifically constructed Fantasy universe; if he had been more relaxed with his methods it would have been much more dificult for others (authors, game designers, etc.) to draw inspiration from his work and begin to craft their own worlds by using the incredibly fine-tuned mold that is Middle Earth. As a writer myself, I have to say that it is settings that are well defined both in breadth and depth that really catch my attention and pull me into the story; the greatest settings are remembered because of how they are different and unique in comparison to others, there are thousands of Fantasy settings, but JRR's has always been remembered for a reason.

On the other hand, DAMN ARE THOSE BOOKS LONG!! I freaking grew up reading Don Quijote de La Mancha and Cien Anos de Soledad, and I still almost gave up on ROTK.