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Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by csallen on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:24PM (#37195103)
If you don't like the recent commercial depictions of the LotR series… don't watch them? Of course you have the right to criticize and complain about them. But to let their existence "spoil" your enjoyment of the original works seems excessive. The original works were not somehow changed by the creation of new works, and so neither should your ability to enjoy them change.
Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by rcme on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:29PM (#37195134)
No man is an island. You can’t ignore what happens in the world.
Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by gumby on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:41PM (#37195194)
Sure you can. I never saw the hobbit movies because I heard they had a lot of fighting. It’s a lighthearted book.
Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by zabzonk on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:02PM (#37195669)
You might not like the movies (I don't) but I think it is a bit suspect not to watch them because of a review, if you like the books.

Also, there is quite bit of fighting in the book.

Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by gumby on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:04AM (#37196289)
In the Lord of the Rings, sure, but not much in the hobbit.

But in general I’m not interested in a film of a book I liked anyway.

Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by andrewstuart on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:33PM (#37195156)
>> The original works were not somehow changed by the creation of new works

I was changed by seeing the new works.

Some things can't be unseen.

Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by mikercampbell on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:38PM (#37195180)
That Hobbit trilogy? GAWD. I tried reading the hobbit and while I loved it, I agree while at the same time saying that culture is rampant.

Like how they’ll never stop making Willy Wonkas or Alice in Wonderlands, and each gets increasingly painful.

Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by mellosouls on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:27PM (#37195470)
The original works were not somehow changed by the creation of new works, and so neither should your ability to enjoy them change.

Our experience of art is necessarily influenced by the world; works don't just pass pristine and unaltered from their creation into our consciousness. They can be both enriched and cheapened by the cultural detritus they and we float through on the way; whether it's the mythology of an artist died beautiful and young, or the commodification of something once felt precious and unique.

Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by bombcar on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:05AM (#37196592)
I mean, it's pretty hard not to imagine Aragorn without seeing Viggo now, unless you've never watched the movies at all.
Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by ajkjk on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:09AM (#37196052)
> If you don't like the recent commercial depictions of the LotR series… don't watch them?

for me they don't "spoil" the original work and I ignore them, but it is, in a way... deeply, cosmically, saddening, to the see the world do a shit job with a thing that you love. It hurts. It feels tragic that the world could be so shitty, in the same way that reading news articles about horrible people does.

Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by themadturk on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:39PM (#37216294)
As Stephen King said, no adaptation replaces (or ruins, or improves) the original. No matter what they've done to The Stand (multiple times), the original is still there on the bookshelf.