Joan's Journal

I am one of those shallow criminals who never cared for the books and fell in love with the first movie -- I'm not uneducated in genre fiction -- wrote my M.A. thesis on feminist utopias -- but LOTR bored me late in elementary school, I found most of the men full of themselves, particularly Saint Faramir, and I never went back until Peter Jackson showed me the light. So I absolutely love this interpretation of the book-movie differences. I was a grad student for long enough to believe that audience interpretation is more important than authorial intent anyway, but I can't remember the proper literary theory terms for the discussion ("the emergence of subaltern aporia in the carnivalesque reification of post-colonial discursive modality" -- I'm sure the terms have changed by now anyway!)