I saw The Hobbit last Friday

[Ocean1]

I thought it was the Silmarilion that told the story of Gollum....but hey im getting older too.
Man , in that book & the Book of Lost Tales you have a history as complex & as deep as the Bible, & way cooler stories....A way better creation myth.

Long time ago I read The Worm Ouroboros , not long after having read The Silmarillion.

I thought "s'not bad, but he's clearly ripped most of it from Tolkien".

Then I checked the dates.

[jihema]

Long time ago I read The Worm Ouroboros , not long after having read The Silmarillion.

I thought "s'not bad, but he's clearly ripped most of it from Tolkien".

Then I checked the dates.

Hey, thanks, I'm a fan of old-ish fantasy (Lord Dusany, etc.) but I never heard of that one before. Just downloaded it on my Kindle.

KiwiBiker, come for the bikes, stay for the literary discussion.

[Banditbandit]

Legions of Tolkien fans would not have allowed Jackson to change anything - it had to follow the book. They grizzled about the stuff he left out, imagine what it would have been like if he added stuff that wasn't in the books

He did add a couple of scenes that are not in the book - especially between Aragon and Arwen Evenstar ... didn't add anything to the plot and helped to carry the plot in a movie way rather than a book way - but they were still additions.