21 years ago today, the Return of the King

[That SOB Van Owen]

Saw these as a kid and remember nothing about them. Maybe I should watch them again.

Never read the books.

 

[Kaladin]

Saw these as a kid and remember nothing about them. Maybe I should watch them again.

Never read the books.

 

[Pipe Line]

Saw these as a kid and remember nothing about them. Maybe I should watch them again.

Never read the books.

Funny story, those movies were hot when I was in Elementary School. For some god knows why reason, my school had those books being sold at my book fair when I was in 3rd grade I think it was. I bought the Two Towers book. I got in trouble one day in after school Kids Club, 15 minutes of time out. They gave me the options to sit there and wait, or to read, and I chose to read. I whipped that bad boy out, and spent 15 minutes on the same page not knowing what in the hell I was reading. I did watch all of those movies as a kid as well, and had no clue what the book was talking about.

 

[cwessel76]

Funny story, those movies were hot when I was in Elementary School. For some god knows why reason, my school had those books being sold at my book fair when I was in 3rd grade I think it was. I bought the Two Towers book. I got in trouble one day in after school Kids Club, 15 minutes of time out. They gave me the options to sit there and wait, or to read, and I chose to read. I whipped that bad boy out, and spent 15 minutes on the same page not knowing what in the hell I was reading. I did watch all of those movies as a kid as well, and had no clue what the book was talking about.

Tolkien’s writing style was more academic than anything. He was a linguist and started with the words of a language and built the background behind those words from there.

Still, very much worth a read. Start with The Hobbit and go from there.

Only sickos read The Silmarillion.

 

[dsbigred1]

Return of the King was great until the last 30 minutes where Sam and Frodo can’t figure out if they’re going to fuck or not

 

[betsch]

The Game of Thrones version of this is great too.

 

[Frogsker30]

Funny story, those movies were hot when I was in Elementary School. For some god knows why reason, my school had those books being sold at my book fair when I was in 3rd grade I think it was. I bought the Two Towers book. I got in trouble one day in after school Kids Club, 15 minutes of time out. They gave me the options to sit there and wait, or to read, and I chose to read. I whipped that bad boy out, and spent 15 minutes on the same page not knowing what in the hell I was reading. I did watch all of those movies as a kid as well, and had no clue what the book was talking about.

Two towers came out when I was like 6 . I thought it was about the twin towers lol

 

[Alcaus]

Only sickos read The Silmarillion.

 

[Pipe Line]

Two towers came out when I was like 6 . I thought it was about the twin towers lol

I almost typed the twin towers lol

 

[SoCal_Corn]

Read the books in HS. For a class actually. 1980.

I think maybe I should watch the Peter Jackson films, right?

 

[Kaladin]

Read the books in HS. For a class actually. 1980.

I think maybe I should watch the Peter Jackson films, right?

Yes

 

[cwessel76]

Yes

Seconded.