Lord of the Rings
Dec. 23rd, 2002 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflySo, I've gotten into the books backward. I wasn't able to finish reading Fellowship until after I'd seen the movie and I wasn't able to pick up Two Towers until I'd seen the movie.
It's been an odd experience for me because I'm used to being the bookish kind.
LotR is the only major fantasty series that my brother has read and I haven't.
He only read the first Dune book, I devoured all of them. I've eagerly read every book in the Wheel of Time series. I love fantasy, love putting myeself into these huge and amazing worlds.
And I couldn't do it with LotR and my brother could. And that truly bugged me.
There's a... distance in the books. I can't lose myself in them. I have read The Hobbit and enjoyed it, but I never got lost in it.
Watching the movies, I have been totally lost for the period of three hours that they take. The movies spark me in a way that the books don't. The emotion reaches out and grabs me by the throat.
I'm starting to enjoy Two Towers, or at least stopped wanting to claw my eyes out after too long reading it, but it doesn't grab me.
It's been an odd experience for me because I'm used to being the bookish kind.
LotR is the only major fantasty series that my brother has read and I haven't.
He only read the first Dune book, I devoured all of them. I've eagerly read every book in the Wheel of Time series. I love fantasy, love putting myeself into these huge and amazing worlds.
And I couldn't do it with LotR and my brother could. And that truly bugged me.
There's a... distance in the books. I can't lose myself in them. I have read The Hobbit and enjoyed it, but I never got lost in it.
Watching the movies, I have been totally lost for the period of three hours that they take. The movies spark me in a way that the books don't. The emotion reaches out and grabs me by the throat.
I'm starting to enjoy Two Towers, or at least stopped wanting to claw my eyes out after too long reading it, but it doesn't grab me.