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Date: 2022-11-01 10:58 pm (UTC)Oh yes, that's a really good way of putting it. They were very....normalized, in a way? And like, I know Hollywood would never keep in all the singing and Tom Bombadil and the somewhat archaic language but that was a big part of what I loved about the books. I think that's partly why they were so popular in the sixties in the US, they fit right into the rising folk music movement.
Poor T actually likes the films and enjoys rewatching them around Xmastime and I always crack wise until glared into silence, lol. Altho he thinks the first movie is great, the second movie is ehh and the third movie is no good, which might be the general critical consensus now, idk. Frodo and Sam really held up. (I confess a giant part of my problem with the films is Gollum. They made him WAY too OTT and I find something about the CGI disgusting. He just looks wronggg. I know Gollum is supposed to look wronggg but it's not even uncanny valley, it's just....ack.)