Okay, bad choice of example, but I stand by the principle that nobody goes
for a boring name when an exciting one will do, except when addressing a
specialist market :-)

Bjorn


Christian Gerzner wrote:
> Bjorn  wrote:
>
>> All books are like that. I doubt that it would have had the same
>> success, had the Lord of the Rings been named "Adventures of Small
>> Men with Hairy Feet" :-)
>
> I rarely disagree with you Bjorn, but here I do. ;-)
>
> I believe that if that cycle had been called "Sackcloth & Ashes" or
> "Watching Grass Grow", the power of Tolkien's prose would have
> conquered regardless.
>
> I'm not a lover of movies, but in the last three years I actually,
> voluntarily even, went to no less than three (and no more). Yup, the
> Trilogy.
>
> Twice even. Six movies in three years is decidedly a world record for
> me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christian