Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25987328-20160413230109/@comment-26322120-20160421231707

Okay Cal, you're right.

L.M.M: I say that the movies felt like insults because 1. they did feel corny, and 2. they were different then how I imagined them. I understand that it is impossible to make a movie off a book how I imagine it, let alone how everyone imagines it, but that dosen't make me like them.

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time," Christopher Tolkien observes sadly. "The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away."

"They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25,"

~Christopher Tolkien.