A HUGE problem with Bombadil's removal.

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<BR>No problem with any removals</b><br><br> <blockquote><i>Quote:</i></b><hr> The last point-people who haven't read LoTR before will now have a pre-conceived notion of the entire thing. &quot;Arwen stayed home??!!!&quot; &quot;Who the hell is Tom Bombadil anyway?&quot; &quot;What is this site named after anyway?&quot; And they won't have the joy of imagining their own Lothlorien and their own Rivendell, their own Aragorns. They won't feel the same chill of fear in Moria, and they won't see their very own Barad-dur. They won't even get to think up their own Gandalf-they'll see Peter Jackson's. Maybe the movie-supporters don't think it's that big a deal.<hr></blockquote><br> You're wrong. It isn't that I don't think it is a big deal. It is that I don't think it is true at all. I saw Jurassic Park before reading that book. I loved the book (and the movie!) but I decided that many of the characters didn't fit the movie's representations. And I had no problem at all</b> imagining my own characters. Let me tell you, I am a scientist with very little creative abilities and if little ole me has that much of an imagination, then most anyone else who sees the LotR movies before reading the books can do just as well. If they can't, that isn't anyone's fault but their own. It certainly isn't Peter Jackson's. And maybe they LIKE Peter Jackson's Aragorn (I certainly do!!! *sigh*) or Gandalf, etc. and WANT to adopt them for their own. Nothing wrong with that!<br> <br> <blockquote><i>Quote:</i></b><hr> There is no way one interpretation will suit everyone.<hr></blockquote><br> No kidding. That is not the goal. When an artists creates a work, he isn't trying to please everyone. He's just creating! And who are you to say what themes are off limits to an artist?? ie. &quot;Some things should be left alone.&quot; Are you the 'art-police'?<br> <br> Geez! Less whining takes place when they make a movie based on the Bible! LotR is fiction! Though some would argue that the Bible is too. hee hee.<br> <br> -rêd <p><blockquote><p>"He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."</p> <p>-A Short Rest, <i>The Hobbit</i></p></blockquote></p>