... and the research that allows you to make this sweeping statement can be found where?
Where's your's to DENY it?
You have any freinds who haven't read
Tolkien's work?
Talk to THEM & ask them......
I have a feeling that unlike
Barliman Butterbur, you aren't going to see through this brick wall in time.
Let me give you an example:
My best freind, I've been trying to get him to read TLOR for 20 years.
He reads alot of
books, but hates fantasy/Sci Fi......
Doesn't like Star
Wars either.....
We took our daughters to see FOTR.
He thought it was good but overinvolved.
I want him to go to ROTK but told him he has to watch both FOTR & TTT EE's 1st with me.
He was here Thursday & I wanted to put on TFOR......
He was saying at 9:30, "It's too late, it takes a half hour just for
the Ring just to roll down the mountain." (The part where
Galadriel gives the background in the beginning).
Another example:
Freind of my wife's, read the books, went to ROTK 1st night.....
He told her, "They didn't explain where
Denethor burned himself clearly enough, it was confusing."
And He READ the books.
People want it simple & clear, not involved to the point of ridiculous.
If you don't believe my 'sweeping statement', ask some people.....
Take my Aunt.
Never read Tolkien.....
LOVED the movies.....
Christmas Eve:
"Where was
Frodo going at the end of the movie? It was confusing."
So, let's take a simple story like The
Hobbit & complicate it with a bunch of made up & embelished stuff from UT & the Appendices that isn't even in the book.,,,,,
How absurd is that?