Lord of the Rings vs Dune

[DWF]

I went with Dune, the books were easier to read for one thing I can't seem to get though Fellowship Of The Ring, while I first read Dune back in 1980.

 

[Lt. Trull]

They weren't killed at the end, the Fremen did ride in on them in the big battle at the end of the movie and in the longer version they were posed to destroy the main supply of spice.

You didn't see it on screen, but, yeah, they pretty much were.

SOMEONE had the bright idea of Paul being able to make it rain to show his super powers.

So he made it rain.

All over where they had just had a metric buttload of Shai Hulud.

And you KNOW what water does to a sandworm.

Yeah but there's no sandworms in the final wide shot at the end just before the credits and he only made it rain in the city.

dude... u have got to read or at least listen to the books... the movie you thinking of although visually pleasing was not that accurate... the scifi channel movies (dune and then children of) are a lot more true to what Rev. Herbert intended. He did not move the water from Planet attrades to dune like suggested... he instead held it for ransom... he who controls the spice controls the universe... and thereby became king...

I suggest listening to the audiobooks... I listened to all of them at least twice, from the beginning of the machine wars to the surprise in the last book... at least I thought it was a surprise... I didn't see that coming....

 

[DWF]

You didn't see it on screen, but, yeah, they pretty much were.

SOMEONE had the bright idea of Paul being able to make it rain to show his super powers.

So he made it rain.

All over where they had just had a metric buttload of Shai Hulud.

And you KNOW what water does to a sandworm.

Yeah but there's no sandworms in the final wide shot at the end just before the credits and he only made it rain in the city.

dude... u have got to read or at least listen to the books... the movie you thinking of although visually pleasing was not that accurate... the scifi channel movies (dune and then children of) are a lot more true to what Rev. Herbert intended. He did not move the water from Planet attrades to dune like suggested... he instead held it for ransom... he who controls the spice controls the universe... and thereby became king...

I suggest listening to the audiobooks... I listened to all of them at least twice, from the beginning of the machine wars to the surprise in the last book... at least I thought it was a surprise... I didn't see that coming....

Yeah I read the books and have seen the movie and the minseries both of them more than once and there's still no scene where Paul kills the sandworms in the movie nor does Paul doe so in the first book, but as I said in the extended version Paul does order the sandworms taken to the biggest pre-spice mass as a threat to destroy the spice. But we were talking about the movie and there's no scene in the movie where Paul kills the sandworms.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Well the Lynch movie did have a good sound Track and Patrick Stewart but other then that I laughed at parts parts that were supposed to be serious especially the end where Paul basically kills all the Sandworms.

It's been awhile since I last saw the Lynch film, but ... I didn't think the sandworms were killed at the end. Paul and the other Fremen simply rode them in through the barricade, didn't they?

Yeah but Paul decided it was a good idea to make it rain on an are that the Sandworm were probably still in.

You know I wrote a college research paper on the Lynch film version and novel versions of Dune last spring. I remeber giving the Lynch film a scathing review and I didn't mean to do this at first but I ended up saying how the SciFi miniseries was in many ways a better film adaptaion

 

[Starbreaker]

Book - Dune
Movie - LOTR

 

[Harvey]

I prefer Dune over Lord of the Rings by a wide margin. Tolkien's prose is long-winded and uninteresting to me. Include the fantasy elements on top of that, and I'm just not interested enough to pursue the books with any dedication. While Herbert's prose is far from great, it is rarely a site of intense boredom to me. Add to that science fiction elements that are much more interesting to me (many of which have been discussed here), and I'm led to easily prefer Dune.

I can appreciate the cinematic versions of Tolkien, yes, but as far as the literary works go, Herbert's world is preferable.

 

[Orintho]

Well the two really are apples and oranges, but I prefer LOTR in both film and book. And for those of you who seem to struggle to read Tolkien, remember it really is all about the journey.

Dune is excellent and well written, but it has never been one of my favorite scifi universes. I find the Dune concept to be very dark and pessimistic.

To the Dune movies, unfortunately they cannot compare to LOTR. However, this is only due to the production values. The original theatrical version of Dune was fine until the murder of Leto, then the film leaped, jumped and skipped a ton of material till the end. The miniseries told the story better, but was limited because it was a TV production.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Well the two really are apples and oranges, but I prefer LOTR in both film and book. And for those of you who seem to struggle to read Tolkien, remember it really is all about the journey.

Dune is excellent and well written, but it has never been one of my favorite scifi universes. I find the Dune concept to be very dark and pessimistic.

To the Dune movies, unfortunately they cannot compare to LOTR. However, this is only due to the production values. The original theatrical version of Dune was fine until the murder of Leto, then the film leaped, jumped and skipped a ton of material till the end. The miniseries told the story better, but was limited because it was a TV production.

Personally the Lynch film started to lose me when we met Baron Harkonen, the skiping around didn't help matters.

 

[Cutter John]

Another vote for LotR.


I tried reading Dune back in High School and found it just a bit too dry...

 

[Reverend]

...Well it is a desert planet, no?