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Kath · 07-02-2005, 08:37 AM

I agree with you Eomer. When I first read TTT I was absolutely hooked by the ending. I was in the car at the time and bugged my father to speed all the way home so I could find out what happened next.

I never felt this sense of urgency or even desire to find out when I watched TTT and this is not just down to knowing anyway because I had some idea of the plot when I read the books first time anyway.

Putting Shelob and Frodo and Sam's separation in TTT might have made a pretty dull film actually exciting. The whole focus was on the happenings at Helm's Deep and then as a way to show that Frodo and Sam were in the film they put in that awful Faramir story (which I won't go into because I will rant about it for pages!).

As for a clifhanger, seeing a giant spider attack Frodo and then orcs carrying him off with poor Sam just having found out that the master he left to die is still alive and now in the hands of the enemy is in my opinion as far better and more tense cliffhanger than Gollums comments about a 'she'.

07-02-2005, 08:37 AM	#3
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	I agree with you Eomer. When I first read TTT I was absolutely hooked by the ending. I was in the car at the time and bugged my father to speed all the way home so I could find out what happened next. I never felt this sense of urgency or even desire to find out when I watched TTT and this is not just down to knowing anyway because I had some idea of the plot when I read the books first time anyway. Putting Shelob and Frodo and Sam's separation in TTT might have made a pretty dull film actually exciting. The whole focus was on the happenings at Helm's Deep and then as a way to show that Frodo and Sam were in the film they put in that awful Faramir story (which I won't go into because I will rant about it for pages!). As for a clifhanger, seeing a giant spider attack Frodo and then orcs carrying him off with poor Sam just having found out that the master he left to die is still alive and now in the hands of the enemy is in my opinion as far better and more tense cliffhanger than Gollums comments about a 'she'. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”