how did u pronounce the character's names?

No. I did, comparably, go around spelling "Gandalf" from Lord of the Rings "Gandelf." I blame it on Frodo's strange pronunciation of Gandalf's name in Fellowship.

Whoa, it is so weird to hear from people whose first experience of The Lord of the Rings were the movies. It blows my mind. Almost like a long time SW fan meeting someone who was first introduced to Star Wars through the Clone Wars tv show.

Sorry, back to the topic now.

Octorox said:

 I was too....still haven't read the books. Will get around to it at some point...

Don't bother getting around to it. I am pretty sure you wont like them.

I sense ageism.

DarkFather said:

I sense ageism.

From me? No, wasn't ageism. It is just that there used to be a bunch of us Tolkien fans who really enjoyed his writing, it was always kind of cool to run into someone else who was a Lord of the Rings fans. Then the movies came out, and everyone and their brother we not only LOTR fans, but they were downright obsessed with it, but only the movies. Most of them had zero interest in reading the book. Nothing wrong with this, but it is a lot like OT fans and PT fans. Seemingly the same fan base, but literally fans of two entirely different things. 

Wow, I really hijacked this thread. Sorry about that.

I had read The Hobbit before I saw the LOTR films. It was peculiar to me that the tiny plot point of Bilbo's ring was expanded into an epic trilogy. It irks me when minute points in a story are later so elaborated upon, when the story the point originated from worked so well as a stand-alone, and the point as a minute point.

Elan Sleazebaggano ("You wanna buy some death sticks?") in Attack of the Clones was given a small, passing scene played only for humor. The Expanded Universe took that passing scene, took the character, and elaborated on... pointlessly... just so people could know more about the character created only for passing humor.

Am I the only one annoyed by things like this? It's cheap.

DarkFather said:

I had read The Hobbit before I saw the LOTR films. It was peculiar to me that the tiny plot point of Bilbo's ring was expanded into an epic trilogy. It irks me when minute points in a story are later so elaborated upon, when the story the point originated from worked so well as a stand-alone, and the point as a minute point.

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Am I the only one annoyed by things like this? It's cheap.

I actually think what Tolkien did was rather clever. And while I am really fond of The Hobbit, I feel LOTR is a far superior work. I don't think this can be compared to EU running amok with detailed stories about every background item. That shows an obvious lack of ideas, when you have to take the most miniscule parts of someone elses story and expand on them. The fact is, if half the EU stories out there didn't have SW in the title, they would never even get published, let alone read. 

Tolkien's retcon of the ring was brilliant actually. He was expanding on his own story, and was wholly original. Originally the ring was this really cool thing that could turn you invisible. That is a pretty impressive piece of treasure, not just some tiny meaningless object. When I first read The Hobbit, I thought it would be great to have a ring like that, it was the most interesting part of the story to me. The second book follows up on this amazing little treasure, and shows us that it isn't just some fun little toy you can play around with, but a very powerful and dangerous artifact.

That was my initial reaction. I'm now neutral regarding it, meaning I don't find Tolkien's trick there either "cheap" or "clever." It's at least acceptable, since I have greatly enjoyed the LOTR films and books.

Who are "they"?

Or Tarkin, who also pronounces it Leah.

EDIT:  Or C-3PO, who also pronounces it like that... Or, well, any time her name is spoken in the first movie.

rcb said:

the only book i understood was the hobbit. fun little adventure to read about.

If you liked The Hobbit, I'd highly recommend Tales from a Perilous Realm to you. Specifically the stories Leaf By Niggle and Farmer Giles of Ham (one of my all time favorite Tolkien tales), which are both included in the previously mentioned collection. Personally, I didn't care too much for the other two stories in the Perilous Realm collection, but having all four works in one volume is an excellent value. The Father Christmas Stories and Roverandom are two other fun little works written by Tolkien. None of these stories take place in Middle-Earth, but they all share the same fun and charming adventure element found in The Hobbit that many felt was absent in The Lord of the Rings.

Kids got a lot wrong when watching these films for the first time seriously.  When my brother in law saw star wars in the theater in '77 he thought the jump to lightspeed was "jungle lightspeed"lol.

People still call womp rats womp bats, annoyingly like Hot Waffles George Lucas raped our childhood song.

And also People still call greedo, guido.

The worst Joke i ever heard was that after luke fought vader in empire strikes back he was "hand solo".

The worst pronounced by people is probably padme

They call her pad me.  As if it is too seperate words.

The Bobba Boba pronunciation has been both. Bobba in the radio drama.

Then the handmaidens names like Corde or Dorme  cord dee and door me,lol.  People seriously are that bad.

Even Jabba the Hutt was Jabba the HUT spelled different but pronounced the same.

Then the most hard to say thing ever in star wars is midi something or other,lol.  Based on mitochondria. 

I love this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeYgju2qopM&NR=1

I think George Lucas should get into the musical restoration business. I'd really love to see what he could do with films like, The Sound of Music, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, and the likes.