Over the course of the Easter weekend I watched the extended edition of each part of the Lord of the Rings. It was as pretty interesting thing to do. I thought I’d seen them before, but it turns out no, just the regular versions. Maybe I’d seen The Extended Fellowship of the Ring, but certainly not the others. I wonder if the editing had anything to do with staying true to the books. Let’s do a little research over at The Nit Picker's Guide to the Lord of the Rings.
Actually, once I got to deviation # 6 I decided to stop reading. I’m looking forward to rereading the trilogy now, for the first time in a long-ass time. I don’t want to ruin it for myself.
Some of the added scenes turned the movie into more of a romantic comedy: the drinking contest between Legolas and Gimly, and Strider dumping out the bowl of stew what’s-her-name brings him? Are those things in the book? It seems strange to add anything at all when you have to cut so much out; however, I understand that the additional women who may be interested in the movie because of Arwen’s hyperbole-of-a-role compared to the book are going to be far more profitable than any Ring nerds boycotting the movie, which they wouldn’t not never do anyway. Seems like cutting those and similar scenes kept the movies a little closer to the tone of the books, though. We’ll see soon enough.
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I certainly don't remember a drinking contest in the books, and i would have thought that would be something that would stick out. Obviously there's a lot in the books they couldn't keep in, but the for most part i think they did a pretty good job. Really i only have 2 complaints that i remember about the movie. 1. frodo is a complete wuss in the movies. I don't know why, it makes no sense. In the books he actually does stuff, he attacks people, not always successfully, and he may still need to be rescued, but he gives it a shot. In the movie all he ever does is cower, and whine. Second that in the movie the hobbits trick the ents into going to war by having tree beard walk over to the burnt part of the forest. That is completely stupid. Tree beard is a tree shepherd, taking care of trees is what he does, by what possible logic could have no idea, that an enormous swatch of trees has been cut/burned down? That's stupid. Secondly they have an enormously long ent conference, where they make it clear that this a group decision, and everything has to be slowly and carefully weighed, they decide not to go to war, tree beard sees the cut down trees, gives one giant cry, and now they are at war just like that? How does that make sense? That was a stupid attempt to give those 2 goof hobbits a more important role, but it just doesn't make sense, even within the context of movie.
Yeah, I'm familiar with your complaints, and I a second them. They should have beefed Frodo up on steroids and stuck a hornet nest up his butt.
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