A Nerdy Question on LOTR

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The first film, at least, was a good time killer but never, and I say never, up to the foot of the books. I can list what grand liberties make them third rate holywood action movies but I'm in a lazy late morning mood right now. For the least, many of the chief characters and personalities (Frodo the crybaby, Aragorn aka Conan the barbarian, the Wizards out of a Gargamel mood dueling with the staves and all...) have been perverted and bastardized. While definitely enough darama exists in the works, more have been invented in the silliest holywood fashion such as the Aragorn - Elrond - Arwen balony...

Apart from the content, the books are true artworks. The movies aren't, which many holywood productions, no matter how much of a box office success they achieved, are. I'll take (for an extreme comparison) Terminator 2 over any of them. (To be fair I've never seen The Two Towers completely but still I saw enough of it and the rest two.)

Also, I'm not (yet) a fanatic of the books. Nothing wrong with being one but I'm not. But I admit that I love them and I'm reading The Hobbit for the second time in hardly longer than a month. As I said earlier, the movies were at least useful for me inciting a curiousity for the real stuff, but in a different way.
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