How is it to have watched the movies first? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Macalaure · 08-02-2006, 08:11 AM

I belong to those people around here who only came to read the Lord of the Rings after the Jackson-movies came out. Though I watched the Bakshi one when I was a child and liked it (!) and knew several people who read the book, it only made it on my "books I'm going to read somewhen"-list and somehow never to the top of it. Then I watched Jackson's Fellowship and Two Towers and they were simply awesome to me.
So I finally read the books and it made me end up here.

Sometimes people who were fans (long) before the movies (the vast majority here, I'm convinced) speculate on how it is to have been introduced to Middle-earth by Jackson (most recently Mithalwen on the "What did Christopher Tolkien think?"-thread). So, to get some first-hand information, my question to my fellow movie-first readers is: How is/was it to you?

How significant or important are the movies for you today?

In how far has your reading been influenced by it?

Did you have difficulties making your own picture of Middle-earth because of having Jackson's picture in the back of your head?

How do you like the movies now?

There are plenty of questions like this you can ask. I'm curious about your experiences and will share my own soon.

I think this might be quite interesting since, from now on, most new readers will come into contact with Jackson first.

08-02-2006, 08:11 AM	#1
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	How is it to have watched the movies first? I belong to those people around here who only came to read the Lord of the Rings after the Jackson-movies came out. Though I watched the Bakshi one when I was a child and liked it (!) and knew several people who read the book, it only made it on my "books I'm going to read somewhen"-list and somehow never to the top of it. Then I watched Jackson's Fellowship and Two Towers and they were simply awesome to me. So I finally read the books and it made me end up here. Sometimes people who were fans (long) before the movies (the vast majority here, I'm convinced) speculate on how it is to have been introduced to Middle-earth by Jackson (most recently Mithalwen on the "What did Christopher Tolkien think?"-thread). So, to get some first-hand information, my question to my fellow movie-first readers is: How is/was it to you? How significant or important are the movies for you today? In how far has your reading been influenced by it? Did you have difficulties making your own picture of Middle-earth because of having Jackson's picture in the back of your head? How do you like the movies now? There are plenty of questions like this you can ask. I'm curious about your experiences and will share my own soon. I think this might be quite interesting since, from now on, most new readers will come into contact with Jackson first.