re: Dune answered an age old question for me tonight

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I've always wondered what it must have felt like for people to see Star Wars for the first time, or the Fellowship of the Ring, not knowing they were about to begin one of the greatest film trilogies of all time.

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I’m not going to read any further into this thread until Tuesday or Wednesday when I see it (busy with some things this weekend), but I’ll never forget watching Fellowship for the first time in theaters. I had read the Hobbit before but not Lord of the Rings, so I knew who Bilbo, Gandalf, and Gollum were and knew about the Ring of Invisibility. I had no idea Lord of the Rings was a trilogy (and it technically isn’t) and thought it was simply the sequel to The Hobbit. It blew my mind. I thought Mount Doom was across the Anduin and the movie would end there, and then when Frodo and Sam come over the ridge, see Mordor in the distance, I’m dumbfounded, and then the movie just ends… I was pissed for half a second before realizing this was a trilogy and there was much more to come. Read the entire Lord of the Rings before New Years that year. It was awesome.