It was after that when the series started getting too repetitive and Salvatore was just spitting them out for a quick buck. The ending of IWD was solid enough that it didn't really need to continue anyway.
Then that would become a talking point and be talked about regardless of whether that was the advertising strategy. I refuse to believe the majority of people Native English speakers at least were ignorant of J. Tolkien's books, they might not have read them but I choose to believe that they knew about them possibly not before the movies were announced but after that they knew.
Please, I'm trying to cling to the last scraps of my faith in humanity damnit. Dark Elf trilogy, well respected? It's damn popular that much is certainly true and the people who like it love it. Rightly or wrongly Drizzt is not considered a great book character or series, people can argue about it all they want and they can like it all they want, for the moment at least it is considered poor but with strong appeal to certain people.
Don't forget that a gaming message board like this is not representative of the whole population. We all here are nerds that know everything about LOTR, but we are not a fair sample of the overall population. The vast majority of people do not know that LOTR was a book before it was a movie. Also saying nobody reads Drizzt books if they aren't into DnD is erroneous. Drizzt appeals to a lot of people that like fantasy books, regardless of whether or not they are interested in DnD.
Go to any book forum, and whenever someone asks for fantasy recommendations the Drizzt books will always come up. Same with the Dragonlance, and they actually did make a Dragonlance movie a few years back but it failed.
It failed not because of the source material however, but because it was an animated movie with very poor animation and it was only 75 minutes long so they tried to cram too much into too little time. I don't know everything about LotR and I read the books before the movies came out and I wasn't a nerd back then.
Trying to lump a classic book series into something for gamers is insane. Tolkien was a very smart man who wrote a book and created a language to go with it which is critically acclaimed. When the LotR movies were announced many people at my school whom I would consider idiots and not particularly nerdy or gamer-ish were reading the books.
Just because I'm saying this on a message board for a computer game does not mean that is how I am defined nor does it mean I think I am representative of the world. You are seriously under-estimating the fame of LotR I think. Again you're trying to pigeon hole everything.
There is crossover, I go to many forums and read many topics, no one defines me, all of them added together don't even define me. Besides which have you read every book that gets a mention on internet message forums? People in this world have varying tastes and some like pulp books and some like classics and some like high literature.
So really great books are liable to be mentioned in the same breath as absolute dross. It sounds like Wizards may have overcome this problem. Recent artistic depictions of Drizzt and other dark elves have given a purple hue to their skin unlike anything in the real world, perhaps a mild retcon to make them less like real human ethnic groups.
There may also have been a decision to lean into the themes of racism and colonialism that run through Salvatore's books, which even in the s were regarded as unusual and forward-looking it not tremendously sophisticated , in a more modern context. More news as it develops. Post a Comment. Labels: drizzt do'urden , dungeons and dragons , forgotten realms , legend of drizzt , r.
Top cast Edit. Cat Doherty Warrior as Warrior. Imran Garda Rizzen as Rizzen. Cellie Lindberg Vierna as Vierna. Dorian Lockett Narrator as Narrator. Brandon Matel Dinin as Dinin. Arianne Maxey-Hooks Briza as Briza. Sayan Mohanty Zaknafein as Zaknafein. Brian Ivanhoe. More like this. Storyline Edit. A , 7 minutes and 51 seconds- Matron Malice, a Dark Elf, attempts a coup. A child is nearly sacrificed to aid in her victory.
This child, Drizzt, becomes one of the most beloved heroes in Dungeons and Dragons lore.
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