@Blitzenexx Haha, well, if you read the book first (and props to you, since getting into the story initially is pretty slow going, because of the way Tolkien wrote and constructed it), be prepared for a reasonable number of "but that didn't happen" or "why did they leave that out?" moments. Like I said: it's probably the best book to movie adaptation there is, but it's still not 100%. Oh, and be sure to watch the latest versions, at least they've added some extra material.
But all in all, the movies are great. In fact: I'm watching the trilogy again as we speak. One of the networks I'm subbed to, decided to do a "Lord of the Rings Monday" cycle, so every Monday, one of the movies is shown. And even after already having seen all of them 4 times, they still get to me. Be prepared to be moved, perhaps even to tears, because there certainly are some heavy and beautiful moments in there.
Even though they were made several years later, and the effects they used are more advanced, the Hobbit trilogy can't even compare. Probably also because he spread the much smaller story so thin, that he had to add several elements to it, to pad it all out again...
@Delibheel Yeah, like I said: he overstepped there, probably still a bit drunk on his success with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. And it being five times longer? How about nearly ten? The Hobbit is just an average length pocket book, while the complete edition of The Lord of the Rings is almost 1300 pages...
@the_shpydar Haha, that's pretty funny. Wonder how I ever missed that, since I did regularly watch Robot Chicken.
@Delibheel I figured you did something like that, but the problem with that is that the Hobbit book uses normal paper, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy uses extra thin paper (making a physical comparison skewed), unless you have the three parts in separate books. And those separate parts aren't the complete edition either, so they're missing quite a few pages...
Not really interested in the differences between complete and not complete as long as they tell the main story. These books do seem to have the most recent version though, whichever that might be.
I do want to get the silmarillion. Too bad it was not included in my mini collection, they're adorable.
It's cheap on kindle, but I don't really want to add yet another book to the backlog there at the moment.
Well, the one with the latest print run, obviously, and the added foreword telling you that this is the latest, completely revised and re-edited edition...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@Delibheel I just checked, and it actually is. The only difference between the hardcover bound edition (which is the one I got) and the separate books, is that it misses the appendices and legends. But you've got the complete story otherwise.
@Delibheel That's a pretty good looking set, so congrats on that purchase, also for the price: I paid almost 35 euros for my hardcover book, which contains only the trilogy, so in dollars, that's almost $40.
I was kinda messing with you, though. You're not missing anything important, unless you're a complete history and legends and lore nut. And it's not even real history, seeing as it's Middle Earth lore.
The extras contain more and/or elaborate back stories on all the families involved, family trees, lore and foot notes, so for all the people interested in those kinds of things, it's a worthwhile purchase, or for (obsessed) people like me, who don''t like "complete" editions if they aren't really complete...
And I also don't like the backs of books becoming worn or crinkled, which happens a lot with paperbacks, so whenever hardcovers are available, I'll always go for those.
These are weird in the sense they're technically paperbacks, but the covers are more like a leatery rubbery plastic.
Bendy, but not paper-delicate.
As for negatives, being smaller books, the pages feature small text, and the pages themselves are relatively delicate. Not to the point of unreadable but still.
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