Wow! I almost forgot how great The Fellowship was. I wonder if Tolkien had any idea that Lord of the Rings would become a billion dollar industry when he first put the pen to the paper.

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Wow! I almost forgot how great The Fellowship was. I wonder if Tolkien had any idea that Lord of the Rings would become a billion dollar industry when he first put the pen to the paper.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>It was a billion with just books. Well...if you consider the inflation since the 1940s.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm just talking about the anual income for the last year.</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Why, oh sweet Jeebus, why didn't they release the extended version now?! Why must I wait, forced to confront the temptation of buying the non-extended DVD now?!</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I think you answered your own question</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Heh, I can't watch the Council of Elrond scene anymore without thinking of the MTV movie awards =)</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If anyone hasn't read the originals yet, they defy belief in how good they are...</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, the DVD sold out everywhere, even here at Futureshop (160 copies) where we were selling it for nearly 40 bucks a pop, don't worry, I got my copy at another store for $22.99 (like 16 bucks US). I'm buying both copies, I feel the extra 23 bucks is worth owning the movie a few months earlier.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm just getting the 2-disc 'cause it's the only way to get the theatrical edition. Kinda like hedging my bets in case for some unknown reason I won't like the extended</div>

[kali o.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>He was a terrible writer...I thought so in my early-teen years (when I read them the first time) and I think so now (when I read them [err...at least Fellowship] again)...

Crappy songs, unlikable dull characters, long stretches of tediousness...egh!

It only drew so much attention because it was one of the few and first of its kind...

There is no question...the trilogy is an epic...in size not talent of writing.

.....

And I dare someone to disagree and say that Tolkien was a fantastic writer....because so help me god, I will fill this board with the poetry of that senile bastard!

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There is an inn, a merry old inn
beneath an old grey hill,
And there they brew a beer so brown
That the Man in the Moon himself came down
one night to drink his fill.

The ostler has a tipsy cat
that plays a five-stringed fiddle;
And up and down he runs his bow,
Now sqeaking high, now purring low,
now sawing in the middle.

The landlord keeps a little dog
that is mighty fond of jokes;
When there's good cheer among the guests,
He cocks an ear at all the jests
and laughs until he chokes...

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Don't.....make....me....finish it.......

KO-</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Wow, you are the first non-woman that I have heard of that doesn't like the series</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I've yet to read them. My mother, however, loves them. Read them several times over when she was in high school.</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>WOOOHOOOOOO SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME!!!!!!! finally...I thought I was the only person that thought that</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Not saying that all Women don't dig them, but there are a lot of women who dislike them because they don't have Romance.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It was just on the news that first day Lord of the Rings sales shattered the record all throughout Europe, North America, and Australia, even beating the thought to be insurmountable newly set record by Harry Potter in the UK. I must say, I'm not surprised at all, it is probably the most overall entertaining movie ever to be made.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I will contribute a small sum to the billion dollar sale for just the DVD alone(yep, getting a copy tonight). And more when the TTT opens later this year. =8^)</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>A lot of people think that, it's pretty famous as "Bored of the Rings". I begrudge no one their opinion. I absolutely think it's a classic and still inspires me every time I read it. And I love that song. :)</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Mine too.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>First of his kind? Without him, there would be no D&D. He basically invented the fantasy genre. But i will agree, there are LONG stretches of tediousness in the books. Other than that, I loved them</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Bored of the Rings is a book written by National Lampoon or something, I read it back in Jr High, some funny stuff, but I think I could have written a much better one. The funniest thing I can remember from it was changing Bilbo's name to Dildo =P</div>