Regarding Game of Thrones. While it is fantasy, it doesn’t feel like it goes too far in that regard. I read two of the novels before I saw the first Episode and it sucks you in and feels like the high middle ages. I have a useless but completed masters in Medieval History and I adore Game of Thrones. I don’t pick at it – it’s art. It’s enthralled me and it is so fresh.
I was raised on Tolkein and I love him. I have the LOTR in a collectors DVD and then bought it in Blu-ray. So I’ve read it at least 4 times and read to my kids page by page but I have to say, I feel compelled to see the new Hobbit films and just saw the Desolation of Smaug and I’m burned out. The Hobbit should never have been stretched out to make three three hour films.
The end of the book could have been the end of the last film. I can’t believe they are going to suck three more hours out of a chapter. The Hobbit’ Part 3 release date is officially set for 2014 – Oh no!
They lost me completely. Little guys running up and running down and ending up on cliffs forty times and too dark in the 3d glasses—I wanted to blow my brains out.
Now he’s making The Silmarillion. That was virtually unreadable. It’s an author’s wiki. Yikes. A franchise that is killing a classic.