{"id":6,"date":"2007-11-03T22:07:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T20:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/6\/one-ring-to-rule-them-all"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:44:23","slug":"one-ring-to-rule-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/6\/one-ring-to-rule-them-all","title":{"rendered":"One ring to rule them all"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weekends back I took the time and inserted the One Ring again. Saturday evening I watched The Fellowship of the Ring<\/strong> and The Two Towers<\/strong> and sunday I finished with The Return of the King<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Awesome, simply awesome.<\/p>\n

I watched the first two movies as double feature in the cinema as “blind buy”. I’ve never read LOTR before. I was very impressed. I liked the story from the beginning and was eager to know how it ended. Thus, I bought the books (german translation). After 80-or-so pages I gave up. A few months later I started again and after the first 100 pages it was something like readable. But I never really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

Then I watched the third movie (I knew how it was going to end and also knew which parts would be missing but I didn’t mind). After that I thought I gave it a shot and read it in the original language – klingon. Just kidding. But to be honest, it wasn’t much better. I was really impressed by the fact that there were countless english words describing the landscape I’ve had never heard before. It was hard work for me. Before LOTR I read only the Potter books and some Babylon 5 novels. But overall, I don’t think that JRR was a good storyteller. The story itself is great but he couldn’t tell it very good. IMHO! Please don’t crucify me.<\/p>\n

But Peter Jackson could and he did. I bought the theatrical version, knowing there would be a SEE. After I got the SEE I gave the theatricals to my mother because I knew I wouldn’t watch them again. Last year Amazon.com sold the CE for $22 each and I took the offer. Thus I owned every version at one time and still own the SEE and CE.<\/p>\n

This weekend I watched it again and was again very impressed and very moved. I confess: I sobbed when Galadriel, Elrond, Gandalf & Frodo departed from the Grey Heavens.<\/p>\n

11 out of 10 points for all three movies.<\/p>\n

A bit disappointing for me was that – although I am usually not a bonus feature watcher – that none of the SEE\/CE (the discs are the same) contains a movie trailer. Sad is also that the short movie of Sean Astin (“Sam”) The Long and the Short of It<\/em> and the Making-Of of TLATSOI are only contained on the TTT theatrical DVD. I really liked that one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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