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02-24-2007, 11:43 AM
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Barad-dur
The Dark Tower was well portrayed in the LOTR as a place of immeasurable power, fear & malice. It seemed almost as scary as the Dark Lord himself! But what did Tolkein have to say about it in letters & other sources?
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02-24-2007, 11:46 AM
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I actually feel that after the first film, Sauron on Barad-Dur resembled an angry lighthouse. In Lord of the Rings isn't Barad-Dur cloaked in darkness so Frodo could not have seen Sauron so I think it was poorly done in the films.
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02-24-2007, 07:42 PM
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Jackson had a good portrayel, I think. Well suited.
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02-24-2007, 10:17 PM
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Barad-Dur did its job of being a frightening tower in the movies, and a lot of the pictures people drew of it before stunk, so PJ did something amazing (Well, all of the movies were amazing.)
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02-25-2007, 04:05 AM
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I thought it was immense in the first film but I don't know why Peter Jackson had to change the eye...
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02-25-2007, 04:01 PM
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Perhaps the tower could have looked broader, instead of being so narrow. I liked the illustration in the hardback copy of LOTR best.
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02-25-2007, 05:34 PM
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Broader? I hate the square/rectangle styled 'mansions' of evil charachters. That's very stereotypical, a tower is better.
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