Very glad to hear your positive take on it, Frank, as I'm going to see it
tomorrow myself, with my daughter and her boyfriend, here from Pitt. They've
already seen it once and want to go again, which is a good sign as they're
both such film snobs. From what I've read, it seems to have achieved the
impossible in satisfying those who know the books, while making those who
don't want to.
The NY TIMES has been running an online "Tolkien Archives" feature all month
(http://www.nytimes.com/specials/advertising/movies/tolkien/index.html),
which I highly recommend. Pieces come and go, but what's gone can be
accessed in the Archives' archive, and the guided tour of Tolkien web sites
("Web Explorer: Journey to Middle-Earth") just gets bigger each week.
There's also a new quiz each week with movie-merchandise prizes (though I'm
hot to get a Burger King souvenir goblet myself), a slide show of Tolkien
cover art, readings by him of excerpts from _The Hobbit_ and _The
Fellowship_, downloadable first chapters of both books, a feature on the
making of the film's soundtrack, and period reviews of the books, including
two by Auden. His Halloween 1954 review ("The Hero Is a Hobbit") begins "Mr.
Tolkien has succeeded superbly. No fiction I have read in the last five
years has given me more joy than 'The Fellow of the Ring.'"
Check it out!
Candice
on 12/25/01 10:18 PM, Frank Parker at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Thank you, Candice. Glad to greet your day :)
>
> I saw 'The Fellowship of the Ring' yesterday, btw. Can hardly wait for the
> next
> chapter to screen!
>
> cheers,
> Frank
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