Myslef I di not like the fact atht the love between Aragorn and Arwen was so prominent. In fact he never fell off a vliff in the the two towers. ANd it wasnt her that came upon frodo in hte fellowship either. Many many other things come to mind on this. I will probably llist about 20 in the next 2 days, but go . lets hear what we all have to say about it.
Well it was in th books too, but you only found it that way,,,fag. Now I laugh , but it was, and i realize I opened a can of worms on this one, becuase I can list about one million discrepences in this book to movie thing, but let's try to list major ones.
Yeah, I told my friend that Frodo and Sam kissed at the end of RotK and he totally believed it. Are we supposed to trash the movie for not being like the books? Vise versa? The movie didn't go into excruciating detail, like, what happens to the fucking mule they ditch before going into the mine. . . Or all the gifts Bilbo gives out on his birfday. . . And they cut the whole chapter about that rabbit and stew down to a quick scene. What I like about the LotR is it broke ground for a whole new genre, one I like. What I hate is he gets all the credit, like Tolkien didn't borrow strongly from Bewolf and older Norse myths. Oh, I didn't like the Giant Elephants. Thats enough.
Isn't it Oliphants? or somethig of the sort, Yes, some of it was borrowed fomr Bewolf, but lets not forget what Tolkien did for a living, in fact he is credited with one of th most correct translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. So who can blame him. I think if we are going to bitch about plagiarism of anyhting, not one of us would have a point anywhere.
My problem with LofR is as follows, It does not feel like a fantacy movie. It does not put you in the story. See I find the same problem with Episode 1 and 2, 3 not so much I enjoyed 3 a bit. See movies like Clash of the Titans, Conan, Flesh & Blood (great Rutger Hauer flick if you like him) Suck you in and you feel a part of the movie. I never felt that with LofR, I tried to watch them and I Tried to like them but I could not. They just seemed over done and where way to long not that I hate long movies by any means. But some movies need to be long and some can be sumed up in 2 hours without the rest feeling like filler. It just seemed that some of the elements and story arches did not push the story and where unneed fluff.
They left out the whole Tom Bombidil storyline from Fellowship and I too thought Frodo and sam would start kissing at any moment throughout the entire series.
They're not less gay in the books though. The theme of friendship is stronger, I suppose. Maybe we're all just to synical and can't allow for two humans to love each other in a non sexual relationship. The Tom Bombidil story isn't that cool. I heard though that he's a powerful being and not just a hobbit.
Not true in the first one I saw the friendship, Then it went north in the 2nd and 3rd. Makes me wonder if the actors where nailing each other. I mean I always found those 2 a little fruity.
Tom wasn't a hobbit at all. He was actually a character from some of Tolkiens other writing that he intergrated into the movie. A force of nature of sorts. I know a lot of fans wanted to see him on the big screen. And the Barrow-Downs, that is the part I wish to of seen the most.
