The movies haven't really deviated from the books that much (I mean HP, obviously), so how can there be two different sets of fans?
"OMGWTF that was RON'S LINE!" They haven't been paying attention, obviously. While the first two movies were very Disney-fied and not exactly innovative or anything, the three HP movies on the whole were far more faithful to the books than LotR. The biggest changes, really, were storyline cuts. I mean, really -- the length of the lists for character-personality-changes weighs heavily on the LotR side, the sheer number of deviations from events, etc. I don't. get. it.
I figure that if LOTR was a "mythic prehistory" then details can change over the years, like any history does.
That's a really interesting way of looking at things. Cool :)
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The movies haven't really deviated from the books that much (I mean HP, obviously), so how can there be two different sets of fans?
"OMGWTF that was RON'S LINE!" They haven't been paying attention, obviously. While the first two movies were very Disney-fied and not exactly innovative or anything, the three HP movies on the whole were far more faithful to the books than LotR. The biggest changes, really, were storyline cuts. I mean, really -- the length of the lists for character-personality-changes weighs heavily on the LotR side, the sheer number of deviations from events, etc. I don't. get. it.
I figure that if LOTR was a "mythic prehistory" then details can change over the years, like any history does.
That's a really interesting way of looking at things. Cool :)