I have read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy just about every year since I was 12. Those books might rank up there as the best gift my Mom ever bought me…thanks Mom! I love the storyline, the characters, the mythology…all of it.
When the movies started to roll out I was apprehensive. I knew the dialogue and storylines by heart. When there was a deviation–and I understand that there had to be, but don’t get my nerd-rage going with Arwen stepping into Glorfindel’s place in the Flight to the Ford scene–as I was saying, deviations from Tolkien’s original got under my skin.
I’m hard-pressed to find a movie that I like better than the book. Can you think of any screen presentations that rival the images your mind conjure with the words of a master writer?
Alas, over the past few years I have allowed the video imagery of Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth to find its way into my heart. I continue to read the books each year, usually in the fall while perched in a tree waiting for deer to meet me. I cannot stay away from the adventure, from the epic tale and the Story told within the story.
So when it was announced that Bilbo’s adventure was being brought to life in the near future, I decided to give up my animosity and get excited.
I was hoping for a release that would coincide with Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday, which also happens to be Levi’s birthday–September 22. I wonder if I could have talked Kim into naming him Bilbo or Frodo, or at least giving him Baggins as his middle name…
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