Spite
So here's the thing: I haven't read Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers or The Return of the King.
I'll wait for all of you to recover from the state of shock.
I'm currently working on Towers, but it's hard with all my schoolwork and stuff.
Also, I haven't seen those two movies, because I'm picky like that.
Now, my friends say they are going to force me to sit down and watch the movies this semester whether or not I finish the books.
Regardless of if I finish the books, what if I really, really like the movies? I mean, they're epics, the third one won one of those big awards (imagine that, a fantasy movie winning an award!) and the soundtracks are constantly talked up. Sounds like there is little reason for me not to like them. Now, as soon as I realize the movie's awesomeness, my friends are never going to let me live it down. Just wait, they'll be talking about how good the movies are, and I'll pipe in my agreement, and then they'll suddenly turn on me saying how it took me a billion years to read/see them. Then what?
It's a lose-lose situation. I was better off saying I hadn't seen the movies because I couldn't trudge through the books.
Granted, this is all hypothetical. Maybe I should just give them all a slap in the face (literally or verbally, or both) and it'll never happen again. Maybe they'll be nice.
.....
Maybe part of me just wants to watch the movies, not have to pick up the books (which stop to examine every passing flower in detail, ug) and get on with other things I want to read. But that's not how I roll. Especially someone like me who likes to read, and wants more time to do so, it would sound silly to say, "I really liked the movies but never finished the books." (Granted, I know people do that for Harry Potter, but that's not as respectable a series overall.)
-CF
Cool quote from Aragorn (one of the coolest characters IMO) while reading early in The Two Towers: "There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
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