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**lindil** · 06-09-2001, 11:40 AM

tLW, I must say I agree w/ you completely - I am v. willing to admit I belong in the purist camp w/ some ultra-purist concerns. I know that when i read Star wars expanded universe books , I have apicture of Luke Leiah and Han - straight out of the Movie [w/ a few gray hairs starting to show in the new series ] this is because of the multi-sensory bombardment that movies create, especially one;s which take place prior to having read the book. I am not carte-blanche against any M-E movies , I just think faithfulness to the dialoge and storyline is a minimum. -if you must delete do it, but don't start telling a different story - believe me the last thing I want to see is a forum dedicated to creating a new LotR canon to reconcile the Movie w/ the Book! Red typethed:"Geez! Less whining takes place when they make a movie based on the Bible! LotR is fiction! Though some would argue that the Bible is too. hee hee." Actually whenever there is a distorted and twisted attempt to make a movie/play out of various parts of the Bible - there is quite an uproar - I am remebering the last Temptation of Christ specificaly , and a far more shamelessly a recent play about Christ and the Apostles being portrayed as gay . These both rightfully created a much larger uproar than the LotR spats - because you are right red it is only a movie, but it is a movie portraying what several polls have seen as the most important book of the last Century and some would say millenium. Veracity of the Bible aside, hee hee. Lindil is oft found on posting on the Silmarillion Project at the Barrowdowns and working on yet a 2nd new Elven/Christian discussion board<a href="http://pub72.ezboard.com/bosanwe" >Osanwe</a> , and <A href="http://pub41.ezboard.com/btarostineruhir">Tar Ost-in-Eruhir</A>. and Finrod saith " Therefore Eru,if He will not relinquish His work to Melkor...then Eru must come in to conquer him.

06-09-2001, 11:40 AM	#13
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	<BR><br><br> tLW, I must say I agree w/ you completely - I am v. willing to admit I belong in the purist camp w/ some ultra-purist concerns. I know that when i read Star wars expanded universe books , I have apicture of Luke Leiah and Han - straight out of the Movie [w/ a few gray hairs starting to show in the new series ] this is because of the multi-sensory bombardment that movies create, especially one;s which take place prior to having read the book.<br> I am not carte-blanche against any M-E movies , I just think faithfulness to the dialoge and storyline is a minimum. -if you must delete do it, but don't start telling a <i> different story </i>- believe me the last thing I want to see is a forum dedicated to creating a new LotR canon to reconcile the Movie w/ the Book! <br> <br> <br> Red typethed:"Geez! Less whining takes place when they make a movie based on<br> the Bible! LotR is fiction! Though some would argue that the Bible is<br> too. hee hee."<br> <br> Actually whenever there is a distorted and twisted attempt to make a movie/play out of various parts of the Bible - there is quite an uproar<br> - I am remebering the last Temptation of Christ specificaly , and a far more shamelessly a recent play about Christ and the Apostles being portrayed as gay . These both rightfully created a much larger uproar than the LotR spats - because you are right red it is only a movie, but it is a movie portraying what several polls have seen as the most important book of the last Century and some would say millenium.<br> <br> Veracity of the Bible aside, hee hee.<br> <br> <br> <p>Lindil</b> is oft found on posting on<i> the Silmarillion Project </i> at the Barrowdowns and working on yet a 2nd new Elven/Christian discussion board<a href="http://pub72.ezboard.com/bosanwe" >Osanwe</a><i> , and <A href="http://pub41.ezboard.com/btarostineruhir">Tar Ost-in-Eruhir</A>. and Finrod saith " Therefore Eru,if He will not relinquish His work to Melkor...then Eru must come in to conquer him.</i> </p> __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.