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Twenty years of HP and LOTR.
Nov. 26th, 2021 10:26 amThis year marks the 20th anniversaries of the premieres of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movie franchises, and some people have been reminiscing when they got into either one of them.
I remember not getting into Harry Potter (either the books or the movies) until after Sorcerer's Stone came out on VHS. My mom had rented it from the video rental store and had it on one night, I came into the room at a certain point and was so captivated by the story that when we had to pause to go to bed I was disappointed, but learning that it was a book series I wanted to read them. Chamber of Secrets was the first HP film that I saw in theaters, and it's around that point that I started getting into the online fandom. That's kind of how I ended up getting into Harry Potter way back when. I wasn't even aware that it was a book series until that point. As for Lord of the Rings, we went to see Fellowship of the Ring when it was still in theaters and I was captivated by the story as well, also having not read the Tolkien books. I remember being confused when the movie left off and then being told that this is just one of three because it's based off of a trilogy, and we would have to wait until the following year for more. I think we saw Fellowship of the Ring several more times in the theater.
In fact, for these franchises we saw each of the films released several times in the theaters, even going to the midnight premieres for a few of them.
Where were you when these franchises first made their film debuts? Did you see them in theaters? Wait until they were available to rent? Were you not interested until much later, or not at all?
I remember not getting into Harry Potter (either the books or the movies) until after Sorcerer's Stone came out on VHS. My mom had rented it from the video rental store and had it on one night, I came into the room at a certain point and was so captivated by the story that when we had to pause to go to bed I was disappointed, but learning that it was a book series I wanted to read them. Chamber of Secrets was the first HP film that I saw in theaters, and it's around that point that I started getting into the online fandom. That's kind of how I ended up getting into Harry Potter way back when. I wasn't even aware that it was a book series until that point. As for Lord of the Rings, we went to see Fellowship of the Ring when it was still in theaters and I was captivated by the story as well, also having not read the Tolkien books. I remember being confused when the movie left off and then being told that this is just one of three because it's based off of a trilogy, and we would have to wait until the following year for more. I think we saw Fellowship of the Ring several more times in the theater.
In fact, for these franchises we saw each of the films released several times in the theaters, even going to the midnight premieres for a few of them.
Where were you when these franchises first made their film debuts? Did you see them in theaters? Wait until they were available to rent? Were you not interested until much later, or not at all?
