What made you a lotr fan ?
so what made you a lotr fan ? was it the books first or the films ?? or was it the other way round ??
When i first heard about LOTR movie i just thought it was some old fashion movie i didnt even know it was a book first. Then i decided to see ROTK i know i should have seen fotr first . The first viewing of Rotk was mind blowing for me 😱
Its still my favorite out of the 3 🙂
First I would like to say hi, this is my first time on this forum and as I am a big tolkien fan just had to join.
this topic seames a god way to start my "life" on this forum.
i became absolutely crazy abaut lotr when I was 8 years old and saw animated movie, that is half of it, at that time I did not know that there was a book and I practicly lived my owne world of midle earth in my games with my friends and in my mind creating stories beacouse I had to finish the movie.
I started to read lotr when I was 14 that is I started to read silmarillion first, then hobit and in the end lotr FR, TT, RK in that order.
I am a big fan of lotr but silmarillion is for me so better, but in the end I see lotr as a part of stories of midle earth history.
it is simply to god made.
The book, the Hobbit made me a fan. I read the Hobbit first back in 9th grade and at the end of the book it says:
If you are interested into learning more about Hobbits check out these books:
1.) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2.) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3.) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
And before I could pick one of them up I went to the movies and saw a preview for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Everything else was history.
Back in middle school with FotR first came out, I thought it was going to be some really really stupid movie, so all my friends went to go see but I didn't, then they came back saying how good it was and raving about how hot orlando bloom was, so I went to Blockbuster and rented it, and loved it, then I read TTT and RotK before the movies came out.
well, i really liked the hobbit when i was little... and i've grown up listening to the stories about the lord of the rings... so when the fellowship of the ring came out when i was in sixth grade (I saw the movie in the theater three times and the two towers twice), i decided to read the book... needless to say, i loved it, and had to read the two towers and the return of the king. from then on, my best friend and i were hooked. we were FREAKS...could quote from the movies, drew pictures about the main characters...even had our own characters... but that was such a long LONG time ago... lol.
***jenny***
I became a fan just by the first preview.
The sword actions unbelievable.
I bought the movie when it came out on dvd with no knowledge other than that one 3 min preview.
"I just felt it."-Michael Jackson
😆
No really, I saw something brilliant, bought it, and it was all it looked like, and a whole bunch more.
Unfourtunatly, what made me a fan was the movies. I say this because when I went on to read the books, I had the movie characters and places in my head. After re-reading LotR a few times, I now have a vision of the characters, not PJ's vision.
But, it has made me a huge fan: I've gone on to read {including LotR} The Hobbit {actually I read this before the movies, but didn't really get me into Tolkien} , The Silmarillion, The Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle Earth 😱 ...
Yeah.