[Diamond18]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> P.J. seems to have thought these things out pretty thoroughly. I don't think he just "forgot" about the Sword. And he's not a Bad P.J. He's a very, very good P.J. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Someone told me in the Books forum to think of the movies as fanfiction--a stupendous, great, and classy fanfiction, which reflect PJ's views of Tolkien rather than pure Tolkien itself. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Birdland, Sharon, I agree with you both very much. This movie was never supposed to be verbatum Tolkien. I never heard PJ state that everything in the movie was exactly like the book and that you should never have to read the book again! Anyway, I suggest paying attention to the special features to get the idea of just how much these people love the book and are making a movie in honor of it. Any movie script, no matter how slavishly faithful, would end up being fanfiction.<P>I think that it is impossible to do what Manwe Sulimo is suggesting:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Let's make a new movie, completely like the book. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>It wouldn't be a movie, then. It would be a pictoral documentary of the book. If, that is, you could even get a finished project.<P>I must admit, though, that I don't really give two shucks about Anduril—I mean, not enough to start flaming PJ about it. Perhaps I'm just not that into swords, but it seems to me that Aragorn is more important than the sword he carries. It's not "The One Sword" after all.<P>Even so, I don't see much of a reason to alter that aspect of the book, myself. The idea about Arwen is good, but I suppose it wouldn't have occured to me. I'd think, "Why incur the invectiveness of fans over such a small thing? It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much censur and wrath over so small a thing...such a little thing..."