http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/10/candy-wars/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:21:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/10/candy-wars/#comment-83064 john Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:04:02 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/01/10/candy-wars/#comment-83064 I'm possibly going to get howled down by rabid Tolkien fans here, but (having read the books many years ago) I think that simply seeing the movies would be suffcient for a "cultural knowledge" of LoTR. When I saw the first of the LOTR movies, I can remember thinking "Good Grief, this incredibly cliched". Of course the LoTR books are the origin of the cliches, but the movies really felt like every fantasy cliche written large. I would also say that given that the audience for LOTR was well above that for any other fantasy film or book, that the general public "discourse" or "perception" of fantasy is that fantasy is LoTR. I’m possibly going to get howled down by rabid Tolkien fans here, but (having read the books many years ago) I think that simply seeing the movies would be suffcient for a “cultural knowledge” of LoTR. When I saw the first of the LOTR movies, I can remember thinking “Good Grief, this incredibly cliched”. Of course the LoTR books are the origin of the cliches, but the movies really felt like every fantasy cliche written large. I would also say that given that the audience for LOTR was well above that for any other fantasy film or book, that the general public “discourse” or “perception” of fantasy is that fantasy is LoTR.

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