>While J.R.R. Tolkien was open to the idea of The Lord of the Rings being adapted into an animated film, he was skeptical of dramatic adaptations in general, particularly those that might "vulgarize" or "sillify" his work.
Noooooo, don't "sillify" my books about magic rings and goblins and talking eagles and shit

Tolkien fags think their shit is the coolest thing ever

>Noooooo, don't "sillify" my books about magic rings and goblins and talking eagles and shit

>Tolkien fags think their shit is the coolest thing ever

Imagine being born in the Victorian era and dying after the sexual revolution and civil rights act. Guy must have some insight.

He’s been quoted as saying elves are Jews.

>>212982581
My great grandfather was born in 1898 and died in 2002, crazy stuff.

>>212982511 (OP)
Do you have permission to use that image?

>>212982588
source?

>>212982581
What insight?

bruh

>>212982540
Stop shitposting and get back to finishing Winds, GRRM.

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>>212982511 (OP)
All my life people have been telling me how great LOTR is, leading to me reading the books multiple times and watching all the movies. But really it's kinda gay.

>>212982604
>live through an entire century
>it was the century where humans went from riding horses to riding rockets to the moon

wtf, Hackson?

>>212982619
We didn’t live in that time, so we don’t know it.

>>212983037
Yeah, it's nuts. But he was very laid back about everything. I just thought everything was fantastic all the time lol. He even took the Holland America Line to the US, Hoboken. But he didn't like it there because they had him working in some meat packing factory, and he was just a regular old timey butcher so he came back. He got his driving license by just going to the government office, where he told them yeah so and so, he has a car, he showed me how to drive and they just gave it to him.

>>212982588
Dwarves are the ones he said were partly inspired by jews, retard.

>>212983339
But Gimli's a chud

>>212982511 (OP)
He didn't want dick and fart jokes. Nothing wrong with that.

>>212982588
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>>212982914
AFAIK Tolkien said something about Dwarf calendar being based on Jewish. Nothing serious.

1950's era medieval films did look quite silly

>>212983020
You wouldn't have read the book multiple times if you thought it was gay.

>>212983249
The early days of cars were hilarious
>These machines are pretty complex and could be dangerous. We should probably need people to have licences to operate them
>Pay 1 shilling and sixpence
>Here's your license bro. Have fun!

>>212984648
what if he's gay?

>>212982511 (OP)
he was right though, Peter Jackson sillified it too much. The shit with Gollum being comic relief, Mary and Pippen, Gimli and Legolas. There was too much silliness that wasn't in the books.

>>212984885
Yes, but because Jackson loves silly stuff. It doesn't mean that movies are inherently sillier than books.

>>212984885
For me it's making Aragorn a reluctant, destiny fearing king, changing Denethor, making Boromir come off as a complete prick constantly and everyone constantly treating him like they hate him, making Isildur out to be an evil asshole and having Elrond absolutely despise men and claim that they're all weak and it's over for them (despite literally raising Aragorn specifically to lead them).

>>212984946
>making Boromir come off as a complete prick constantly
I don't think he came off as a prick in the extended cut. Except maybe the scene where he's disrespectful of the broken Narsil, that made no sense.
>and everyone constantly treating him like they hate him
In the book Gandalf treats him like shit, worse than in the movie, despite Boromir generally being right about the things they disagree about.