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Apparently someone suggested the idea that Tom Bombadil could officiate - with Alan Lee playing him as a cameo!!
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I would have enjoyed seeing Alan Lee as Bombadil though! I think he is very charming.
Another thing that struck me, when I was watching the commentaries:
To the Sammath Naur scene PJ said:
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"PJ:...I never liked the idea of Gollum dancing with joy and then accidentally falling into the lava - which is basically what happens in the book- I just personally... I know why Tolkien did it and I know all the arguments for it, but I just never wanted to do that. I felt so strongly that Frodo had to be some part of it." Boyens: "Yes!"
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Well! I was rather shocked - but it explains why they first filmed Frodo actually
pushing Gollum in !!
I am grateful that they at least altered that, thank God.
But it is another example of how PJ thinks his own ideas better than what Tolkien intended. In a way that's natural that he wanted to portrey his own ideas, and if someone does this in a fanfiction it is o.k., but it is a responsability to present something fundamentally different to a large public who haven't read the book. They get quite a false impression.
After all Tolkien wrote in letter #181
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I should say that within the mode of the story the "catastrophe" examplifies (an aspect of) the familiar words: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."
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There is not much about the saving grace of forgiveness and mercy and pity in the film!