Re Dynaviir’s view on the end of tt BOOK being used in the film<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>they could have made one of the greatest cliff-hanger moments in a film history<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>EXACTLY! <P>I mean, the last line in TT itself is the biggest cliff hanger in literature<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> “Frodo was alive but taken by the Enemy” <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>THIS would have been the perfect way to end the film. We know he’s not dead, but now he’s been captured! What on earth is Sam going to do?????!!!!!<P>If they had stopped just short of this, with Frodo supposedly dead then (like Gandalf in FOTR) it would have been the worst kept secret of 2003!<P>Back to dumbing down….<P>1/ The map that Faramir looked at was laughable. It was not detailed enough. It was like the map you might get with the RISK version of LOTR!!!!! <P><B>BUT</B> The films have actually made me think more when reading Saruman’s plight in the books. Seeing Jackson’s view that he was a pawn of Sauron, I cringed when I saw this first in the film. But then re-reading the books, it has made me look more indepth into Saruman, and you CAN take it that he was forced into a position of being a pawn of Sauron (but still trying to get the ring himself behind Sauron’s back)<P>2/ The whole scene of Frodo and Sam leaving straight away, and Gandalf dropping in on Saruman was dumbed down. It was annoying that Gandalf told Saruman he’d found the ring, (the opposite of the book), but Jackson had to do this because Gandalf ‘had to see the head of his order who would know what to do’. In the book, you’ll remember that he didn’t leave to see Saruman, but was asked to go there by Radagaast. (And leaving <B>this</B> scene out, we thus had Gandalf talking to a moth!!!!!!)<P>3/ Why on earth send the hobbits to a pub in the middle of nowhere? Why not send them straight to rivendell? Because Tom Bombadill told them to stay at the inn, and he doesn’t exist in the film.
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