*blinks* Are LOTR book-fans looked down on? Heh. I guess I've been too busy enjoying the books to notice anyone sneering. *g*
Seriously, I think there are plenty of snobs to go around, and the movie adaptation of ROTK makes me froth at the mouth. Gorgeous vision of how stuff looks, yes, but Osgiliath a stone's throw across the Pelennor? Denethor a raving loony with no table manners who does a flaming nose-dive off the parapet? *GAH!*
*cough*
Anyway, I've seen LOTR fans get very up-in-arms about people combining movie-verse and book-verse (my personal peeve has to do with green-eyes and blond hair versus grey-eyes and black hair, and people who say Sean Bean made Boromir into a sympathetic character that he wasn't in the book -- Sean Bean showed Boromir to be the sympathetic character that a careful reading of the books will reveal), and the places where I hang out in fandom, the movies are a beautiful fanfiction of the books, which are where the deeper wealth lies.
I guess my only point is that the fandoms are probably big enough that depending on where you go, you'll find the full range of snobbery and non-snobbery. :)
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Date: 2004-09-06 02:26 am (UTC)Seriously, I think there are plenty of snobs to go around, and the movie adaptation of ROTK makes me froth at the mouth. Gorgeous vision of how stuff looks, yes, but Osgiliath a stone's throw across the Pelennor? Denethor a raving loony with no table manners who does a flaming nose-dive off the parapet? *GAH!*
*cough*
Anyway, I've seen LOTR fans get very up-in-arms about people combining movie-verse and book-verse (my personal peeve has to do with green-eyes and blond hair versus grey-eyes and black hair, and people who say Sean Bean made Boromir into a sympathetic character that he wasn't in the book -- Sean Bean showed Boromir to be the sympathetic character that a careful reading of the books will reveal), and the places where I hang out in fandom, the movies are a beautiful fanfiction of the books, which are where the deeper wealth lies.
I guess my only point is that the fandoms are probably big enough that depending on where you go, you'll find the full range of snobbery and non-snobbery. :)