Back in the summer I was at a yard sale, and the lady was selling a thick volume of all three LOTR books for a dollar. I got it and didn't start reading it til late October and I just finished Return of the King this morning.
I really enjoyed it and I feel that even though the movie took some things out (like the battle for the Shire) they did a good job following the spirit of the story. It also reminded me the importance of a story being timeless vs being topical with a lot of messages specific to the time we are living in now.
I remember reading where Peter Jackson said that his goal was to present Tolkien's vision and not his own. I really wish the moronic showrunner for Wheel of Time had the same philosophy but he seems obsessed with lgbt representation amongst other things. I have reached a point now where whenever I hear that a new show is adapting a book series, I just buy the books. As a life long comic book reader, I am more than happy to stick with the comic books from decades past. I plan on buying the Witcher series sometime next year as well.
I remember reading that GRRM wanted to subvert Tolkien’s tropes. In LOTR you can see a lot of the themes that seem to be in every fantasy novel. Also Tolkien completed his work. I love the Ice and Fire books but GRRM is taking his sweet time
Look into Joe Abercrombie or better yet Robbin Hobbs. Both are heavily character driven writers though, not a lot happens in some of their books but I would seriously read 1000 pages of Logan NineFingers or Golkta dialogue and love every minute of it.
Will do. Thanks!
For what it's worth, I think GRRM started dragging his feet to stick it to the showrunners when they said that they were the reason it was so successful, and not the source material.
Lol. The proper response to that is, "why should we care, unless you're writing a "Robin Hood In Space" kind of story?