LOrd of the Rings - Was the book better or the movie?

India
December 22, 2006 2:08pm CST
I personally feel that the book was unmatched even though the movie was a great one too..
17 responses
• India
23 Dec 06
Somehow, I din't find LOTR to be special or extraordinarily entertaining in anyway. Maybe, that's because I am not a big fan of this film genre.
• India
23 Dec 06
You would probably be the first person saying that..wow!So what is the kind of movies you like?
@cikedo (3483)
• United States
22 Dec 06
The book was too long and confusing to be entertaining. I prefered the movies.
• India
23 Dec 06
Oh! I love the descriptions and way its described in the book...
@alecsing (445)
• India
28 Dec 06
the movie was better than the book in my opinion. the reason for this is that the book can become boring sometimes, but the movie just maintains it interest and really it is the movie that has propagated the book through the entire world.
• India
22 Dec 06
actually i have not read the LOrd of the ring book but I watched the movie. The movies are too great. Production values and all the charactors are just amazing.
• India
23 Dec 06
Then you must surely read the book by JRR Tolkein..i am sue you will enjoy it more as most things are edited in the movie
• Philippines
22 Dec 06
for me movie because i don't need to read that makes my eyes ache (bec. of small font) and at the movie i can see their faces and just relax in my seat and enjoy the movie
• India
23 Dec 06
Read Eragon by CHristopher Paolini its on the same lines
@chuggs (314)
• United States
22 Dec 06
I too loved both the books and the movies. Yes it is true that the movies didn't tell alot of the story, but if they had we would probably still be watching it, lol, for it would take a very long movie to include everything correctly.
• India
22 Dec 06
Maybe you are right..but the book was brilliant,i guess you cant capture the descriptions of long scenes in a book at a glance in the movie.
@sreedhar (576)
• India
26 Dec 06
I felt the book really bboring and laborious. Though i mostly prefer tp read books,lord of the rings was the exception. The bok is laborious with lots of details which are not needed.
@kulanuwun (1404)
• Indonesia
26 Dec 06
Sorry I didnt read the book
@bindishah (2062)
• India
23 Dec 06
I started reading the book but gave up somewhere in the middle. Im sure there was lots more stuff in the book that was not included in the movie. But yet in my opinion the movie was very well made. The visuals and sets were just awesome, the performances were truly amazinf and realistic. Usually movies dont match upto the books but incase there is just something different about seeing it all come alive in front of your eyes.
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
for me, it was the book, more detailed and plus you imagine you own characters on how they look like or how you picture them to be... I was able to read the book when I was only 9 years old, it was not the same as the movie and I have a wild imagination when I read... plus you will understand it more...
@Nardimm (218)
• Brazil
25 Dec 06
i never read the book... i only watched the movie, and it is my favorite movie :)
• Thailand
25 Dec 06
well.. I haven't read the book though.. but my friends told me they cut out lots of details when the make it into movie.. but anyway.. the movie was FANTASTIC...
@musha_ali (391)
• Pakistan
26 Dec 06
i think movie is better ......... because i hate reading
@kernel (192)
• India
25 Dec 06
i feel that the movie is more better than the book...because the movie brings out the imagination of what every reader might have had after reading the book
@bigedshult1 (1613)
• United States
23 Dec 06
i liked both the books and the moves you are right there
• Canada
22 Dec 06
Both are GOooooooooooooooooooooooOD!!!
@dynamite (74)
• Canada
22 Dec 06
I have read the second book in the series (fellowship of the ring) and watched the movie as well. I would have to say that the book is better because it went into such detail and it was a very enjoyable book. The movie was just as good, but it just didn't go into as much detail in some scenes. I understand that books and movies are way different, but the book was way better.