The Lord of the RingsLiv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings
by Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Peter Jackson · first published 2002
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You cant swim in the same river twice. No one can ever experience the original, because the context of everyone's experience has changed. Would your perception of Lord of the Rings be the same before and after reading Wheel of Time or Game of Thrones? Would it even be the same before and after the France-U.S.-Vietnam War? Would it have been the same if written before World War…
on “The Next Chapter” ↗…to use my imagination (as much) for world building. The drawings seem to overwrite my own image-making process for characters, environments, etc. I don't like it. Another example: I was re-reading the Lord of the Rings recently and I couldn't get Peter Jackson's big screen images out of my head while reading. Same thing with Gaiman's Norse Mythology—for the first few stories all I could see was Chris Hemsworth's Thor,…
on “Consider Phlebas Published by the Folio Society” ↗> …it will have become the modern equivalent of the book. Strongly disagree with at least that statement. If we combine all three parts of Peter Jackson's Lord of The Rings, it still can't match the depth and length of Tolkein's work. Also, given that less than 3% of the book market actually reads digital file sold as a book, I'd say tech community in general is way off…
on “YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]” ↗> I was re-reading the Lord of the Rings recently and I couldn't get Peter Jackson's big screen images out of my head while reading. Why? You shouldn't be able to get Alan Lee's illustrations out of your head while watching the movie :)
on “Consider Phlebas Published by the Folio Society” ↗…fit. They got this split right-ish by splitting book 7, but books 4,5, and 6 suffered for it. (3) The director of the 4th movie _didn't read the book_. What a call! Imagine if Peter Jackson hadn't read Lord of the Rings but just went for it.
on “'Harry Potter' books will be adapted into a decade-long TV series” ↗The "Lord of the Rings" (plural) is explicitly acknowledged by Gandalf to be Sauron in the book. Also in Peter Jackson's movie.
on “Title drops in movies” ↗…presentation will make media more accessible to a wider audience, so they can benefit and learn from it, even if some of the magic is lost in translation. Consider how many more people got to experience Lord of the Rings thanks to the Peter Jackson movies, who otherwise would've never picked up the books. To a certain extent, translations which play with the presentation and complexity of the text have already been around…
on “What's happening to reading?” ↗