I have yet to see it

[SamNotSoWise]

I haven't been allowed to see TTT yet:( , but I've thoroughly enjoyed reading all of your comments. See, I have two daughters away at college who will kill me if I see it without them, so I have to wait until they are home on Spring Break (first week in March) and then we're going to see it together.

I'm not worried about the spoilers since I've read the books about 15 times, so I know the story quite well.

I'll be sure to post my thoughts in March.

Oh, and my great kids got me the video of FOTR for Christmas. I've only watched it twice so far. My wife just humors me. ;)

[Dunadan]

Hello and welcome. What did you think about the first one?

cheers

d.

[Varda Oiolosseo]

Yeah Welcome to the Moot! :D
FOTR was brill! You will love TTT...well i did and i know a couple of people who didn't like it but they aren't a fan of Tolkein!

[SamNotSoWise]

I really enjoyed FOTR, even though I missed Bombadil dreadfully. I know PJ couldn't fit it all into the movies, but Bombadil would have been fun to see.

Overall, I felt it was very well done.

[Dunadan]

Yes, it was pretty amazing. I thought they could've cut more out, actually, and there were a few "extra" bits which didn't make sense to me, but overall it completely surpassed my expectations.

It's great that you can enjoy it with your kids. My boy's a bit too young to appreciate it (8); he's got a bit of a phobia about ringwraiths. Who can blame him? He refuses to believe me that they're not as scary in the film as in the book.

cheers

d.

[SamNotSoWise]

It sounds like you've already introduced him to Tolkien, but how I did it was my daughters and I used to do the dishes together, and I would tell them (from memory since I'd read them so many times) the Hobbit story.

Eventually, we got an automatic dishwasher so that tradition ended before I could go through LOTR.

I did do the "Hobbit" thing again with two others of my kids.

Great father-child bonding time!

[Artanis]

I tried reading 'The Hobbit' aloud to my daughter, she's 7. She enjoyed the first chapters, but then she lost patience during the rather long chapters that followed after Bilbo had escaped from Gollum. We'll have to try again in some years. :)

Dunadan, or anyone, would you let your child watch the LotR movie if he wanted to? My daughter want to see it, but I'm in doubt. I think she might be a bit too young.

[SamNotSoWise]

I agree. Just because of the intensity of the action scenes, I wouldn't recommend the movies for younger children (in general, not for kids younger than about 10). Of course, it depends on the child--some are more mature than others.

Trying reading a chapter of Hobbit yourself to re-familiarize yourself with it, if necessary, then just tell the story in your own paraphrase. You can make it more interesting to the kids until they are old enough to hear it all or read it all themselves.

Just MHO, YMMV.

[Artanis]

Originally posted by SamNotSoWise
Trying reading a chapter of Hobbit yourself to re-familiarize yourself with it, if necessary, then just tell the story in your own paraphrase. You can make it more interesting to the kids until they are old enough to hear it all or read it all themselves.It is a good idea, and I might give it a try, although I'm a terrible storyteller :D Perhaps if someone else told the story ... I've been looking for a dramatization of the Hobbit on CD, but they're of course all in English. :rolleyes: :D

Regarding the movies: Some of my daughter's classmates (all of them boys :rolleyes: ) have seen them, both FotR and TTT. Then the 'you're too young' argument isn't easy to use. I may end up letting her watch the 'lighter' scenes in FotR. Anyway I have no control when my daughter is visiting her friends and their parents let their kids watch movies like that when she is present. Perhaps it is better to let her watch it at home, together with me.

[gimli7410]

y not just go se it and not tell them then everyone is happy

[Aralyn]

whoa a lot of parents on this page. Makes me want to check if my room is clean or something. Yes I can get on the internet, yes I've done my homework. :D

anyhow, I loved LOTR.(movies) both FOTR and TTT. And for all those people who say they dont like the way PJ's version of it turns out I say, Hey at least he tried. Why dont you make the movie and do better. Although making Faramir take Frodo and Sam miles out of thier way to Osgilliath was a bit annoying. :rolleyes:Faramir is my second fave character. (Eowyn first):p

[shirefarmer]

awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
im likeing the family bonding while doind the dishes how sweet wish my parents did that for me.

oh well but also tried reading the hobbit to my younger cousins and it wasnt easy!!! but they love the movie so much they live next door so they always come over and ask if i want to play lord of the rings with them and you know i cant say no. I bet i look kind of silly to the neighbors but i always look silly :D

[Blackboar]

I read the Hobbit to my younger cousins as well, they really enjoyed and I hope they turn into future Tolkienites!

[markedel]

I never had such luck-my family read us Narnia instead. I actually didn't read the hobbit until after LOTR.

[Nurvingiel]

My dad read my brother and I LotR when we were kids. Great memories. And he'd do voices for the orcs, especially great in exchanges between Gorbag and Shagrat, or Grishnakh. Good times. This experience really put me on to Tolkien, so I later read the Hobbit and the Silmarillion independently. (And joined a cool discussion board!)

[SamNotSoWise]

Hey, Narnia's cool too (you probably know that Tolkien and Lewis, the author of the Narnia series, were good friends). Narnia is no where near as developed a mythology as Tolkien's, and Tolkien didn't think much of it, but I enjoy them both.

[Spock]

This is as good as any place to ask this: Has anyone heard when the Two Towers will be out on DVD. I asked Columbia House but they "don't know'. no one replied via the anything thread and so I'm trying here. feel free to p.m. me.
Thanks


:(

[azalea]

According to what was said on the thread "TTT release date for DVD," it will be on June 30.