Eldy
Dor-Lomin
May 22 2022, 9:12pm
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Hi, overthegardenwall! Welcome to TORn. I like your username. 
This is a really broad question, and I'm not sure what kind of answer would be most helpful. I could, in theory, go on at very great length about all the specific things I enjoyed in the films, but unfortunately I'm already at my limit of long posts in a single day after spending most of the afternoon in the Reading Room.  And I'd probably have to rewatch the films to remember everything, since it's been almost six years since I've seen them. But to give a more general answer: I think the trilogy is a fantastic piece of entertainment, a modern classic of the adventure film genre, and the high-water mark for high fantasy on the big screen. There are lots of memorable characters in the movies, but Aragorn in particular is an iconic film hero.
On a technical level, the films are incredibly well-made, but that point has been so widely discussed over the years that I don't really have anything to add to it. As uncle Iorlas says, the scenery is amazing, and so is Howard Shore's music. I have very little I can criticize on the audiovisual front. I think the writing is the biggest weakness in the films, and I don't just say that because I dislike some of the changes, but that seems beside the point for this thread. The films are a different kind of story than LOTR the book, which does not have the pacing of a rollicking adventure story, and puts less emphasis on conventional protagonists like Aragorn, but the films were wildly successful at being the kinds of movies they were made to be. And sometimes, that's enough.
(This post was edited by Eldy on May 22 2022, 9:12pm)
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