The Hobbit has a director and a sequel

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Well, if that's the case, Alex, I'm very glad Cherny enjoys the video game stories made up by nerds in Palo Alto. I'm sure he'd also enjoy the fan fic where Frodo and Sam frack on the boat trip out of the Grey Havens.


Whatever. Games or fan fiction, it's all bullsh!t written by people who are amateurs dabbling with other people's creations. I'm sure some of it is good. Hundred monkeys with typewriters.


But, hahaha, the chance of a concocted sequel being good are miniscule compared to the chances of geekazoid video games being good or even some hot frack fan fic being fanfu<kingtastic.

Hate to break it to you (again), but even the movies were created by people (massively) dabbling with Tolkien's creations. Hell, even all the stuff put out by Christopher Tolkien (i.e. Children of Hurin) is "dabbling". That doesn't mean it's bullsh!t, that doesn't mean it's bad, that doesn't even mean it goes "against" what Tolkien wrote or the world he created. You're just being blanket dismissive (but of course I wouldn't expect anything less out of you ) I just find the dabbling to be less of a sacrilege than you do, as some kind of Tolkien purist. (?)

As far as your last paragraph is concerned, my argument was the other way around -- that if the geekazoids (in Massachusetts, in this case) can make interesting stories in Tolkien's world while being VERY respectful to Tolkien, certainly an awesome director/writer like Guillermo Del Toro can come up with something interesting.

And while I would totally enjoy a "Frodo does Sam up the chuff in the boat" scene, that doesn't mean it would be respectful to or consistent with Tolkien; that isn't what I'm talking about.