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Lucas got lucky. He's a brilliant story man, not a brilliant writer.
I agree in that Lucas most certainly is not the writer that Tolkien is...no question.
He had (read: HAD) a great vision and executed something great with the OT, which was at its best when he got help from Kershner and its sad he never chose to do that again. People are talking about the movies for LOTR being bloated and poorly executed, well, to be honest 1. There is a choice if you want bloat or not with the extended editions (which I greatly prefer) 2. Considering there is only soooo much time to be faithful in a movie...at 4-5 hours for the ROTK extended tell me what he could have done so much better. There will be sacrifices made in a major motion picture release, but most I feel were minor and the movies were EPIC. By the way, The PT is poorly executed and bloated and it does not have to conform to the distributor, it has had 16+ years to work out a script, it is filled with useless lines and silliness, poorly executed CG (overdone). I would have loved to have seen lucas get a writer like a CS Lewis or Tolkien of present day work with that as a script...work on all three movies at once for continuity, and have extended editions and theatrical editions (SOON AFTER THE MOVIE RELEASES!!!! NOT YEARS AND YEARS LATER WITH MULTIPLE RELEASES THAT DESPERATELY NEED EDITING TO MAKE WATCHABLE).
OK. I loved that post Duke about the similarities. To me the OT and the LOTR books will forever be my childhood's happiest memories.
And yes we need more pissed of people at those DVD's to knock sense in to GL...thanks Luke