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cats16
Half-elven
Mar 8 2015, 9:38pm
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Numbers:
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And number 1, nearly every time someone talks about LOTR.
When people bring these things up to me, I initially respond by asking if they've read the books. The answer is 'no' more often than not, so I don't even bother to try and reason with them if that's the case.
I've learned to take it all with a good sense of humor, either way.
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dormouse
Half-elven
Mar 8 2015, 11:35pm
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What else can you do?
I haven't had experience of all those. Number 1, of course. and the 'isn't that just for hippies'. My mum's favourite was always "Why do the baddies have such terrible dental work?"
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Valinor
Mar 9 2015, 7:46pm
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and if you drop him, does he always land on his feet??
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Rohan
Mar 12 2015, 8:53pm
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Funny. But none of these are really "arguments"
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worth giving notice to and therefore don't really faze me. And nobody really cares about Stuart Townsend.
"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule." Gandalf, "The Last Debate."
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arithmancer
Grey Havens
Mar 12 2015, 11:56pm
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I dealt with #20 though. "Why do you waste your time reading those books again? I only read classics."
To which my response was..."The book is 50 years old, and has been continuously in print since then. It has also been translated into more languages than I can keep track of. If this is not a classic, no novel of the 20th century is."
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sador
Half-elven
Mar 13 2015, 11:28am
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The list assumes that a person who says stupid things to taunt a LotR fan will be familiar with the movies, but not with the book.
In fact, the author does answer some of them with 'that's how it is in the book' - which apparently convinces the person s/he's up against that s/he some nerd there's no fun in taunting.
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squire
Half-elven
Mar 13 2015, 12:05pm
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Items 16, 11, and 7 are pretty clearly based on a critic's dislike of the book. As you say, all 19 of the criticisms are pretty thoughtless or "stupid", whether of the book or the films - or at least they're phrased so in this light-hearted spoof.
I do think, as a matter of art, that to answer criticism of an adaptation like a film by referring the critic to the original book, is a sign that the film's defender wants to avoid facing the flaws in the film. A good film adaptation stands on its own as a story and a work of art, and shouldn't need any support from its source to make sense to its audience on every level. But that's just me, of course!
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Farficom
Rivendell
Mar 18 2015, 8:10am
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Why can't people just make a list that you don't have to click though, hehe.
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I had a feeling there would be eagles, and was not disappointed. I'm all for more of them... but that my friends would have been too easy. That is all I can say to those who just don't get it.
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19 Stupid Things You Shouldn't Say To Lord Of The Rings Fans
