Actually, I liked Jackson's works a lot, and I'm looking forward to the third installment. I was thinking more of the Bakshi take on the first two books (a "rotoscoped" cartoon) and the Rankin Bass abomination of the Return of the King. (come to think of it, it's difficult to see how Disney could have defiled the work any worse than that cartoon. Dancing Orcs?).
Actually, Tolkien had his own little copyright saga back in the sixties, when a U.S. publisher (Ace?) for reasons I can't recall, printed an unauthorized version of the Lord of the Rings in the States.
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>>> SCHULTZ[_at_]compuserve.com 01/28/03 01:09PM >>>
Kevin Grierson wrote,
>> ...(of course, some of the people that *have* been licensed to make
>> screenplays from Tolkien's works haven't acquitted themselves well,
>> either).
What? You don't like the two so far released?
--DS Received on Wed Jan 29 2003 - 14:40:45 GMT
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