Lord of the Rings fan boys irk me and deserve as much mockery as we can muster (Language Alert!) But Funny!). Nevertheless, even though the movie version chopped some plot lines and added totally extraneous love interest--what, like Steve Tyler's kid needs to make more $ in her charmed life--the movies worked for me as epic adventure fiction, visually breathtaking, and stayed mostly true to the original Tolkein works.
Thus the fanboy hysteria over the release of a trailer for the next installment amused me to no end.
Still gonna pony up my cash for the flick when it comes out, and others feel the same.
So have at it lads, whatever distracts us from mundane details of our lives for a couple of hours can't amount to something all bad.
[I’m not generally comfortable with the kind of grown man who embraces the word “geek” as a self-identifier because most of those who do so seem to be making an active attempt to forestall adulthood by barricading its way with sky-high piles of endlessly replicating, increasingly self-referential, post-juvenile pop-culture junk. But when the trailer for “The Hobbit” first appeared nearly a year before the film’s Dec. 14 release (which is just plain goofy — like marketing on geologic time), it prompted what one Facebook poster termed a collective online “nerdgasm” — and I wasn’t immune. And so it must be said that those of us who do manage to move comfortably about in the larger world are evidence that a certain Y-chromosome tendency to gibbering fannishness does in fact exist, and many of us have points of contact with this phenomenon that we tend to coddle and then feel guilty about it later.
And some of us wonder why.]
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/04/geek_love_how_a_fantasy_hater_fell_in_love_with_j_r_r_tolkien/
"We all get a little weird sometimes."
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