QUOTE (Lord Melkor @ May 15 2005, 08:56 AM)
Indeed Maclamb, you got me, I am evil incarnated! (But don`t tell this to my girlfriend!)
But yes, I always liked epic fantasy villains, including Melkor, Lucifer and Palpatine.
You don`t like Stephen King? I greatly enjoyed many of his books, he actually creates realistic characters!
Do you enjoy any fantasy at all?! There is some great grim and gritty stuff too, I suggest A Song of Ice and Fire!
And I hope end of ROTJ will get much more powerful after ROTS!
ahhh, an intelligent reply, I am pleased to answer.
I have always loved the Silmarilillion - I find it my favourite description of creation - just love the poetic touches...
My likes/dislikes range far and near - I have emotional likes and intellectual likes. Stuff I find enjoyable and entertaining, though may not think of it as "good" (ie, well done, well written, directed, etc. I am a mac person and find mac hw/sw fas superior to windoze, for example, but still use it ..i digress)
There is some steven king I like - It and Insomnia and the Stand, and some short stories - though I don't see him as well written, or well done.
If this all seems contradictory, well, ok, I contradict myself, i contain multitudes.
i never did too much fantasy stuff, no D&D (some Hack on the pc) no real role playng games - I'm mostly a hermit - and it took 45 years to find a wife I want to be around - though she doesn;t like fantasy as a rule LOL
I have a good imaginiation and write, draw, play music, so I have some feel for creative side - my fav was probably heinlein - and not even ALL of his stuff. (moon is a harsh mistress remains my fav, though glory road is fun for sheer enterainment "my wife the queen of the 20 universes" i'm sure he wrote the whole book just ot use that line.)
I have a fairly good intellect so I prefer stuff with some brains to it, and maybe that's why I don't like SW - FOR ME it deos not seem to be very intelligent, no real good characters, or story. That's just how it appears to me - I have no idea how it appears to others.
By definition there is only the universe as it appears to me - I cannot know another's universe, and even the existence of others is unprovable and there is no objective, external reality.
Too much info right?
anyway, I do have emotional likes and SW at times hits that pretty well - as I said, end of ROTJ brings tears. Not enough for me to go out and spend $ on the dvd's though.
I have the LOTR extended edition and think jackson brilliant. If i even started to compare SW and LOTR it would be done fast. in my mind, no comparison on any levels - apples and oranges and leave it at that. LOTR was the first fantasy I really read and that before I was in my teens.
As I said, I just dropped by after reading chef's articles whihc I find much better than the movies! and a couple of thoughts, no real interest in long discussions about an area I don't really care for or pay much attention to. But I think it's great if all of you love it and have such interest. The universe has something for everyone and plays no favorites. For me it's not about the content, anyway...
not sure you're into this kind of stuff, but I have a web site I play at creating:
www.wakethemup.org
anyway, your girlfriend already knows
Have you read Paradise Lost?