Disney and The Lord of the Rings

[kingj]

Anyone seen this article? Very interesting.

http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/.../guest/rgutierrez.04012004.1.htm~contentFrame

John

 

[Douglas Dubh]

I think the rides described were pretty lame. I could come up with much more reasonable rides based on LotR.




And then, of course, there's the 'Happy April Fool's Day" note at the bottom.

 

[eclipseSD]

J.R.R. Tolkien extremely disliked everything Walt Disney did, never letting him touch any of his work (which Walt tried to do). He saw Disney as a man who made his success by watering/dumbing down fairy tales for the general public. I think it would be an insult to his memory to take his ideas and put them in a place he himself would never want them to be. His son is very defensive of his father's work, and would surely have a negative voice in any such Hobbit attraction.

 

[Sansaarai]

Its an April fools joke.

 

[Schmeck]

Awww, I thought he just got his theme parks mixed up - sounds more like Universal Studios type rides to me, LOL