<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>It all seemed too packaged - Aragorn's Kingship (and the cliched speech he gave upon accepting it), Sam's wedding, Bilbo's and Frodo's last journey. It felt as if the ending was being fed to us, that Peter Jackson was trying to break down Professor Tolkien's ending into easily digestible soundbytes that forced us to believe that everything had been wrapped up ship-shape. For me, at least, it did not convey the sad, operatic aura that clung like a dreary fog to the end of The Lord of the Rings books, and this for me was a tragedy because Peter Jackson brought across the feeling of Tolkien's novel so well in most other places, and this was the one place I had hoped he would succeed the most.<BR><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I'm afraid that's what PJ did because he didn't give it <I>enough</I> time. It's way to difficult to try to get all the feelings, emotions, & reasons in when you barely have time for the actual departures, etc. I hope he does something with it in the EE, but to me, I think PJ using the EE as somewhat of a crutch. He (& most everyone else) is willing to give things small amounts of time & just come back & 'fix' them in the EE. But RotK should be done as the final product, & once you've got that done, then the EE can be sculpted off of that. As everyone's said before, the 'it'll be fixed in the EE' lines make RotK seem like one big huge (& somewhat rushed) 3 & a half hour trailer for the EE.
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