the one that took 300 pages to get good.
it didn't burn itself out...
quite the opposite in-fact... the tension was continually cranked up, and the story itself continued developing right until the end...
and then some seriously fantastical sh!t happened real quickly, was kind of brushed over, and we hit the epilogue...
seriously, wtf is with that?
hack out some of your bibbly description of the WI countryside, and hit me up with more of the flame-throwing rings and mutant supernatural bad guys...
its like peter jackson's lord of the rings all over again... they could have largely hacked out most of the first movie... "yes, new zealand is beautiful... wow, there really is some rugged scenery... with some hairy-footed people walking on it"... cut-out some of that business, make up the rest of the time with cool as you like slo-mo fx shots...
or remember that the trilogy rocks in at over 9 hours long, and just trail a bit on the cutting room floor...
i always liked the 1978 animated version... 'sa bit dark and everything. the orcses are proper random and a bit spooky...
i especially liked the version i had recorded on VHS (complete with spongey box bold adverts) where the channel four announcer pointed out they'd never had enough money to finish the project and filled we, the viewers, in on the remainder of the story line before the credits had even finished...
now that's story-telling...
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