Okay, I'm putting this to a vote.

[serai]

I've got all three volumes of the NPR adaptation of LOTR. Having gotten through the first volume (ow), I'm at a crossroads, and so I want y'all's opinion here.

I'm having fun listening to this thing, partly because I get to pass on my assessment of the damage (The horror, the horror!...), and partly because I really can't believe how bizarre it is. Really, it's like having a big car accident happen right in front of your house - you can just sit in your window and watch all the goings-on. *shudder*


So I'd like to know if you all are enjoying the running comments I've been making in my last post. Should I continue? Or do you not give a fuck? I figure there are still unguessed-at joys in the next two volumes. After all, we've yet to meet a single orc, or Treebeard, or the Mouth of Sauron, for that matter. And I'm actually curious as to what the Battle with Shelob is gonna sound like. (Something like Billy Barty in a duel with one of those $50 aliens on Star Trek TOS, I imagine. Ta-ta TA-TA-TA-TA tata-TATA...)

Votes? Opinions?

Comments

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Keep at it! Well, that's my opinion.

[ex-lunarisi.livejournal.com]

I vote for continued running commentary, for a couple of reasons. One, it's kinda fun to 're-live' the book with you as you go through it. Two, I'm interested in hearing what they did with the rest of the book if this much was so...funny.

I'd like to own an audio version one day, preferably the BBC or the Professor's, but in case I come across this one, I want to know what to expect!

[fantasy-fan.livejournal.com]

I'm enjoying your commentary. Er, enjoying isn't quite the right word, in the same way that you can't apply 'enjoying' to watching the train wreck. I understand the appeal of returning to the source material, and one of the things I'm interested in is other's takes on what they read and feel. Hearing what the NPR people obviously must have thought and felt about LOTR is kind of fascinating, because I'm now so used to seeing it through the eyes of people who essentially see and feel the same thing that I do (more or less). And mocking is fun too.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I'm enjoying the commentary. I've never heard the NPR adaptation. It's interesting to hear what you have to say about it.

[slipperieslope.livejournal.com]

LOL

Keep it up, babes. You are a hoot ; )

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

Please to continue... though I am about to fall into bed and may not see such comments for quite a bit, I was very amused by the first batch I saw before life ripped me away from LJ tonight.

Catherine

[ghyste.livejournal.com]

NPR adaptation? I've never heard of that.

[aina-baggins.livejournal.com]

please do go on, it's fun! ;)

[oxer12.livejournal.com]

Late to this thread, but please continue! I'm rereading LOTR as we speak, too. It's really fun for me to rediscover it. :-)