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   Ronald O. Christian to All   
   Re: If only George Lucas...   
   31 Dec 11 22:50:38   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: ronc@europa.com   
      
   On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:32:32 -0500, Steve Morrison    
   wrote:   
      
   >sean_q wrote:   
   >   
   >> It's hard (for me) to believe that a true Tolkien fan would miss *any*   
   >> film interpretation, no matter how awful. And I think there will be   
   >> more LotR movies to come. Maybe not in my lifetime, but sooner or later   
   >> someone really in tune with JRRT's masterpiece is going to make   
   >> a decent one. After all, they're still making movies based on Homer's   
   >> epics 3000 years after the fact.   
   >   
   >As for me, I could hardly care less about adaptations of Tolkien; it   
   >was years before I saw the Jackson films. I /may/ someday see the   
   >/Hobbit/ movies, but won't be in any hurry.   
   >   
   >(This BTW is the reason I rarely post on threads like this; I'm   
   >essentially an apatheist on the topic, and don't care enough to /have/   
   >an opinion on how good the movies are!)   
      
   Like I said... have you MET the people here??   
      
      
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