On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:37:40 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> Gail Shaw wrote:
> 
>> They're good. Read Magician. Seriously. It's an excellent book.
>> Technically it's the first of a trilogy, but it stands alone quite
>> well.
> 
> Actually, I recall a number of people urging me to read The Hobbit.
> After a chapter or two I was bored stupid. Watching paint dry would have
> been more fun.
> 
> Oddly, the LotR films are really quite good. I don't know how they
> managed to get so much excitement out of such a dull series of books...

Well, I found the books to be good, but they are heavy on exposition.  It 
translated to films well, I think, because instead of exposition on what 
the mountains looked like, we just had a picture to look at.  The scouts 
did very well, I thought, in scouting locations that evoked the images of 
the books.

I hope they do get the Hobbit film(s) made.

Jim

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