re: Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Disappointing

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I'll admit that I didn't watch LOTR at first because I thought it was going to be a nerdy D&D type movie.

But I was wrong. I know very few people who did not see the trilogy and even less that didn't like it. It's no more nerdy than Star Wars and if you have to be a nerd to like Star Wars then I guess just about everyone is a fricking nerd.

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I know you're just trolling but

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Nope. I don't do that. I was just stating my opinion that it was drawn out and overly-dramaticized, not to mention a CGI-lover's wet dream. Maybe my fault with it was that Jackson was too true to Tolkien and didn't use enough artistic license to make it more appealing & believable. Or it could be that I should've watched them in installments. By the end of the saga, my feeling for all the characters and the plot was IJDGAF.

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Has anyone called him out yet for so obviously ripping off "How it should have ended" like it was his own thought?

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Hate to break it to you bud, but it was in fact entirely my opinion. Haven't ever read any posts on LOTR.

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but I'm not buying it.

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I didn't know anything about it besides the books, but when I saw the eagles flying, the wheels were turning. If you don't believe me, just like LOTR, IDGAF. (Is it really a stretch that someone can come up with that on their own? I'll continue to believe that people really aren't that stupid.)

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LOTR is based on World War II slapdick

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Not only that, but also a lot of Western mytholoogy and religion. Specificaly Catholicism, as that was what Tolkien was.

Which is very important to remember.

The movie leaves out many of the little details that are in the book that really complete the entire story. Of course to REALLY understand everything you must read the Silmarallion, Lost Tales, Unfinished Tales, etc. Once you read those it makes the entire Hobbit/LOTR series better, imo.

But the entire "religion" aspect of Middle Earth is based off Cathocilism. The eagles, wizards, Boern, Tom Bombadil, etc are all basically what Saints or prophets would be in Catholicism. Sauron, Melkor, Balrogs, dragons, etc are what the Devil's servants are. As such, the eagles only really intervene in two cirumstances: when they have a chance to kill servants of the dark lord and evil creatures (orcs, wargs, etc). OR when "god" aka the Valar tells them to. Look at Christianity. According to it there is a God that created the world and is all powerful. Yet there is suffering, war, disease, starvation, etc. According to the Bible God "sends" saints, prophets, Jesus, etc in special circumstances. Its the same in Middle Earth. The eagles are just a direct servant of the Valar, a "lesser spirit". The wizards were sent by the Valar to help the Men of Middle Earth defeat Sauron. Even Sauron, and the dark lord before him Melkor, were the servants of the Middle Earth gods, until they rebelled. While they all had great powers, the Wizards, Eagles, etc were still just "taking orders" from the Valar. And like the Christian god, he/they basically sit back and watch and only send help in special circumstances. So Gandalf/Elrond/Frodo/Aragon couldnt have just asked them to fly the Ring right into Mordor.