LOTR Geekdom!

[altivo]

From quaxo, and I imagine the ones I missed were in the last group that had only to do with Peter Jackson's awful movie version.

LOTR Nerd Congratulations! You scored 93!

You've read the books, seen the movies, and love the story...some may make fun, but that's alright. You are truly an LOTR Nerd!

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on geek points

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Comments

[chakawolf.livejournal.com]

Wow, I only got 73%, and I lived and breathed that stuff for decades! Something's rotten in the pass of Cirith Ungol!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Or at least full of cobwebs?

Librarian's memory for books and details. The quiz is muddied by Jackson's distortions, of course. I feel that he filmed an entirely different story than the one Tolkien wrote.

[chakawolf.livejournal.com]

When I watched the first movie, I felt kind of lost until it struck me that the story was being told with emphasis on the battles. After that it made more sense. LOTR was NOT all about the battles, though.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Exactly my reaction. The first film was not too terrible, because the imagery was good in my opinion. The places and people looked right. The omission of Tom Bombadil was jarring though, and Jackson's absurd change that turns Arwen into a warrior was extremely grating. By the second film it was clear that he saw the book as a series of huge military events strung together by the tenuous love affair between Aragorn and Arwen (something that was so minor to Tolkien that the main part of it was relegated to the appendix.)

Although I went to see the third, I was very disappointed by then. The pointless alterations in the storyline and language, the fouling of Faramir's character, the totally wrong focus... Despite Jackson's apparent fascination with Tolkien, I don't think he understands the literature at all. The real story, of the end of an eon of archetypes and nobility, was barely touched upon. The sense of a history that covered thousands of years was lost. All came down to a silly Hollywoodish romance and a lot of Star Wars-like special effects.