In fact, I can't imagine there being more than a small handful of books ever written (if any!) that would be as ambitious a movie project as LotR
Try Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series; 9 books and close to 7000 pages. Or What about George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, 3 books and so many amazing plot twists. There are just two off the top of my head.
A picture may tell a thousand words, but movies have a hard time telling the same words as found in the pages of books they are based off of. A few movies can pull off this trick and stay true to the text, however MOST fail miserably.
A movie can be better if it changes the story (Last of the Mohicans) but purists will say it is not the same. Tolkiens are purists and I, for one, did not want to see a beautiful story warped so some high school flunkie could follow the story.
And if you still must rely on a movie to give you something more than the book did, maybe you ought to spend less time in front of a TV/Movie screen and a little more time thinking for yourself.
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In fact, I can't imagine there being more than a small handful of books ever written (if any!) that would be as ambitious a movie project as LotR
Try Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series; 9 books and close to 7000 pages. Or What about George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, 3 books and so many amazing plot twists. There are just two off the top of my head.
A picture may tell a thousand words, but movies have a hard time telling the same words as found in the pages of books they are based off of. A few movies can pull off this trick and stay true to the text, however MOST fail miserably.
A movie can be better if it changes the story (Last of the Mohicans) but purists will say it is not the same. Tolkiens are purists and I, for one, did not want to see a beautiful story warped so some high school flunkie could follow the story.
And if you still must rely on a movie to give you something more than the book did, maybe you ought to spend less time in front of a TV/Movie screen and a little more time thinking for yourself.