[quote=I_Wear_Pants]Weather changes suck sometimes.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][quote=FilmBuff]I think the biggest problem with LOTR and the Dune novels is that, from a modern perspective at least, they feel excruciatingly patriarchal.[/quote]
so say we all!

:highfive:[/quote]

[quote=FilmBuff]I think the biggest problem with LOTR and the Dune novels is that, from a modern perspective at least, they feel excruciatingly patriarchal.[/quote]

[quote=I_Wear_Pants][quote=FilmBuff]
I have very little interest in reading either LOTR or Dune books, I feel life is too short as it is.... :shrug:[/quote]
I enjoyed Lord of the Rings. I haven't read Dune. I've never looked into the story. 

[quote=John McClane]you know, fun fact, Tolkien didn’t even want to write LOTR and his publisher basically forced him to do it[/quote]
That's interesting. I didn't know that. I know he wrote it like in his 40s or 50s I think it was.[/quote]

[quote=FilmBuff][quote=I_Wear_Pants]It can be tough to start. I don't pretend that it's the easiest thing to do. I have a lot of practice.[/quote]

Yes, it is definitely much easier to just avoid them altogether... :p[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]in the first edition of The Hobbit, the character Gollum freely bets the ring in the Riddles in the Dark chapter. he had to rewrite it to make everything work.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]you know, fun fact, Tolkien didn’t even want to write LOTR and his publisher basically forced him to do it[/quote]

[quote=I_Wear_Pants]It can be tough to start. I don't pretend that it's the easiest thing to do. I have a lot of practice.[/quote]

[quote=FilmBuff][quote=I_Wear_Pants][quote=FilmBuff][quote=I_Wear_Pants]When does a three-hour movie feel like a six-hour movie? 

When Peter Jackson makes a Lord of the Rings movie.

I really don't like his version of the story.[/quote]

Fair enough[/quote]
I know they're popular though. I've never been a fan, even though I hadn't read the books until last year and this. The books are excellent though.[/quote]

I have very little interest in reading either LOTR or Dune books, I feel life is too short as it is.... :shrug:[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]my feet are cold. they never write. :([/quote]

[quote=I_Wear_Pants]One thing Jackson's version did do was inspire me to make my own fantasy films. I had the idea that I could make fantasy films too and that I'd enjoy my own style more so I've been making some for a few years. It's hard when you're recovering from surgery and need to take care of babies and have other issues except now I'm really getting into it.[/quote]