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Originally Posted by GGG
I find the books to be poorly written. They are all over the place and focus on world building at the expense of the plot.
Tolkein's world he created was fantastic and is unmatched by his modern competitors who still borrow heavily from the norms he created.
But as books they aren't great. The plot device is a maguffern. I love the world but the books and stories are good but not great.
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Interesting. Many literary critics consider it one of, if not the, best "book" written in the 20th century.
When I think of Jackson I think of the criticism that Vigio Mortensen gave him, which is that Jackson stopped directing and became more of a special effects expert and CGI creator.
Put me in the category of loving all the movies, but consider the first two the best, then the third, followed by the hobbit series. Things I wish he had done better:
I don't like that Dwarves are pansies in a lot of the fight scenes. I really wish they had done the scene of Gimli jumping the wall better, with him being the equivalent of a honey badger tearing through orcs.
I also wish that we had seen more of Beorn during the Battle of Five Armies. That could have been epic.