Title says it all! I’ll go first.
I’m doing my first re-read of LOTR since I first read it when I was in middle school ~15 yr ago. Just finished up Fellowship the other day and started Two Towers yesterday. It’s really fun to revisit it with an adult brain 😛 Up next after RotK will be Katherine Addison’s sequel to The Goblin Emperor, The Witness for the Dead
I’ve actually never read silmarillion, I might finally do it after finishing up LOTR. It always seemed like it’d be too encyclopedic. I’m really hoping the Dune movie manages to do justice to the books!
We can hope. I refuse to watch that earlier movie abomination bc the book is so incredible.
Have you seen the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune? Real wild ride to see what he would have done with his film adaptation if he hadn’t blown through an insane budget so quickly. I have a lot of trust in Villenevue as a director, but I do think having a zany art-house Dune instead of the tepid 80s one would have been interesting even if it was hard to watch! The doc has a lot of the original concept art, which looks absolutely bananas: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
The doc is great can’t wait to see the Villeneuve version
I love that movie, although to be fair I would’ve likely hated the movie if it got made… Jodorowsky is incredibly inventive and talented, and its clear he wanted to make a Dune that was very much his own story and not Frank Herberts. But its so cool that he brought together all these people who ended up making some of the best sci-fi of all time, like Alien.