Well, I tried to watch LOTR.

Jar,I never went to see the movie, won't watch the cartoon, etc. I loved the books and I know how all the characters look to me, how the world looks.Don't feel guilty!! Just avoid it. Really, don't watch it. I don't care if it's good or bad I don't want to mess with my wonderful experience of the book. Books are just better than movies. Now when Ingmar Bergman makes a movie it's original and there is no book. Those are good. But if I love a book, I'll probably not watch anyone elses version.lfen

Yah, Jar? You get to first base!? *wink wink* *nudge nudge* Know what I mean?Well, if you don't like movies that much in the first place why did you watch LOTR?I like some movies and the French auteurs like Goddard are just flat out superior to the mindless trash Hollywood pumps out. But a huge world like Tolkien created is so well suited to novels and so poorly suited to film. I'm fine with anyone enjoying the movie but I am not going to watch it. I have my memories and I don't want them mixed with the movie. I know I would hate to see my vision of the novels compromised and would hate the movie so I don't watch it.lfen

I thought that was what the sound track and music was for, to enhance the mood. Ingmar Bergman was a master of the profoundly disturbing visual though.lfen