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I was in England in 2001, and I never made it to Oxford to see the Eagle and the Child, the pub where the Inklings always met!! Now I hear it's on sale for 1.2 million pounds. Man, would I love to own that pub... :p Yeah, Tolkien though Lewis was a little to obvious in his allegory, but Lewis...

No witches, but two very major wizards. Saruman is a force of evil in the films, almost a Lucifer type of character as he goes from being the most powerful of the good wizards to the servant of the Dark Lord Sauron. Gandalf, meanwhile, is a step below Saruman in rank. He is deeply concerned with...

The Chronicles of Narnia have much more direct comparisons to Christianity, but there are certainly Christian themes to be found in Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was a very devout Roman Catholic, and that carried over into his writing, but he really wrote the book for himself, never thinking much...

We've already had a lot of discussion on The Lord of the Rings on other threads, but as per Matt's suggestion I'm starting one up so we can discuss the films and/or books without overtaking another thread. :p (I'm feeling extremely hobbitish these days, even more so than usual, and have a habit...

We had one, sort of, with the three-films-at-once thing. But that didn't last too long. I'll start one! :) Erin

I need to get the Return of the King soundtrack. We have Fellowship but not The Two Towers - gotta get that one too. The music for Lord of the Rings is incredible throughout and adds so much to the trilogy and just sounds so completely right. But I was utterly blown away by Billy Boyd's...

Wow, I just discovered that yesterday was J. R. R. Tolkien's eleventy-first birthday!! Really interesting timing, for such an important anniversary to coincide so closely with the release of Return of the King... Erin

Not yet. I'd like to but I'm not sure I will in the theater. There are several other movies I'd rather see first, and I probably won't see them either... :p Erin

They took out a ton of stuff before Rivendell - mostly before Bree - that I missed. Mostly it was stuff involving Sam, and I could understand not putting most of it in, but some of the things they changed made me mad. There were a few scenes I really would have liked to see, like Sam acquiring...

I think it's a lot easier if you don't have to read it out loud. ;) I remember when I first read The Hobbit in first grade, and that was before I was reading things silently. I read the whole thing out loud to myself, and Riddles in the Dark took me FOOORRREEEEVVVEEER and I had quite a sore...

They're definitely intense, and all the history and such can bog you down a bit. And all that Elvish was a bit of a hurdle when my dad was reading it to me. :p Erin

I don't think I'll ever find a movie that will outdo Lord of the Rings. And Return of the King would have to be my favorite of the three films. I also adored Fellowship, but that was the film about which I had the most complaints regarding their deviations from the book... Erin

I think part of the reason the first crew is my favorite is because it's the simplest. Even in TNG, things start to get really complicated, but in the first series everything was centered around these seven major characters and their interactions with the more minor chraracters on the crew and...

I'm going to read it this year. LOTR is an odd thing with me. I've never actually read it myself - actually, I did read Fellowship - but my dad read the whole book to me in middle school, and I've known at least part of the story for as long as I can remember. The book is an integral part of who...

That looks like a really sweet movie. :halo: Erin

Christopher Walken would be a GREAT Slugworth. :) Erin

I want to write a book. A novel or collection of nonfiction or something. I'd also like to write some sort of scholarly book on Middle Earth or some aspect of it. Hm, maybe I should take a trip to Oxford this summer... Erin

I-SAW-IT-I-SAW-IT-I-SAW-IT-I-SAW-IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D You know, my cousin saw it - our two families are both major Tolkien families, and my dad and her dad even used to write letters to each other as Gimli and I think Legolas - and she was disappointed. She didn't say why, and I'm...

Unproductive ambiguity. :p I was talking about "Return of the King." :crazy: Erin

I'M FINALLY SEEING RETURN OF THE KING TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D And Clay's in the Luann comic strip this week! :p Erin