I think that's what infuriates me most; months of "study" courses for children seems like a nefarious way to indoctrinate infants. When I didn't like the books as a child, I was able to just put them back on my shelf and then ask my mother to give them to the charity shop while I concentrated on the amazing adventures of the Redwall mice. I don't think it's right to shove an ostensibly religious work down childrens' throats. Let them make up their own mind.
Well, you know I'm not really a Tolkien afficando, either, so I'll accept you point on that.
I do think the other films will stand a good chance of adaptation. Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe has been successful enough to warrant a sequel (or several, as the case may be) and the studio evidently thinks it has the next LotR or Harry Potter on its hands. Also, the rightwing Christian groups seem to have put a lot of lobbying power behind it, so yeah. I really do think that there will be decreased interest in Europe as the series continues, though. Well, at least in Britain.
Ah, The Last Battle. I remember that one, vaguely. It may be the first book I ever threw across the room.
(This isn't to say I was Demon Secular Child. I had a copy of a Ladybird Childrens' Bible and I loved it something hard. Hee.)
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Date: 2005-12-23 04:10 pm (UTC)Well, you know I'm not really a Tolkien afficando, either, so I'll accept you point on that.
I do think the other films will stand a good chance of adaptation. Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe has been successful enough to warrant a sequel (or several, as the case may be) and the studio evidently thinks it has the next LotR or Harry Potter on its hands. Also, the rightwing Christian groups seem to have put a lot of lobbying power behind it, so yeah. I really do think that there will be decreased interest in Europe as the series continues, though. Well, at least in Britain.
Ah, The Last Battle. I remember that one, vaguely. It may be the first book I ever threw across the room.
(This isn't to say I was Demon Secular Child. I had a copy of a Ladybird Childrens' Bible and I loved it something hard. Hee.)