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3.28.2006
BEFORE WeiWen (sister) came back with the set of LOTR vcd, I had been thinking that LOTR is boring shit. Like matrix. I don't understan why people go gaga over such...such..unreality.
People ALL AROUND me asked whether I watch those big time movies like LOTR and Matrix or whatever. The only movie I watched, and made people queue like mad on the first screening, is Harry Potter.
One fine afternoon (primary school compo), when the sun is sunny and the clouds are cloudy, where the birds chirped birdyly and the basketball court beside my house is filled with sweaty pigs. I decided to sit down, make some coffee, tear open a big packet of ruffles and stare at all the hobbits, wizards and orcs from LOTR. Elves especially.
So It began with Frodo sitting in some forest jungle plains place. Then Gandalf rode in and bla bla bla. So I watched. Till the end of the trilogy.
Today, I regretted watching the movie BEFORE reading the book. You see, if you saw the movie before reading the book, as you read, pictures from the movie starts floating in your mind.
Face it people, we all got different imagination. Some of us can imagine hobbits to grow some antennas (hahahaha), or have ultra rough skin. But no, when I read the part describing Frodo, it began when he was 33 years old.
OH MY GOD. Then the shorty hobbit from the movie appeared in my mind. HIM? THIRTY THREE? WTF?
People, people. The movie only shows the director's view of the storybook. The way he sees those hobbits and creatures. If I had not seen the movie, I would think that the hobbit is short and ugly with warts growing all over the face, make that butt too.
So, we don't venture into our own imagination of how the story looks like, we refer to other people's way of seeing them. GAH
Do you know that Frodo was 50+ when he sets off from the shire? Do you know that at the celebration of Blibo's 111 birthday, the dragon fire cracker is set off by Gandalf himself? And that it flew past the hobbits 3 times? That's what I think I read.
I am at page 50+ now, and the movie covers these 50 pages in like, 20 minutes? 30 minutes? Maybe less, but can't be more.
You know what? Nevermind if you don't get what I'm trying to say.
 Penned at 5:56 PM
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