Confused about Quotations!! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Reg Pither · 07-30-2004, 06:48 AM

The two that really stuck out for me when watching the films were Gandalf's plea to Frodo to 'keep it safe, and keep it secret', which PJ changed to 'keep it secret, and keep it safe' - thus destroying the emphasis on the secrecy.

The other one was the missing out of the word 'altogether' twice in Treebeard's explanation that he is 'not altogether on anyone's side, as nobody is altogether on my side'. Again, nuance, depth and characterization are lost.

If PJ had been just a bit braver with taking more lines directly from the book, it would have helped the films feel immeasurably more 'Tolkien-esque', rather than the strange, clumsy hybrid of old and new dialogue that we hear so often.

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07-30-2004, 06:48 AM	#13
Reg Pither Pile O'Bones Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: London Posts: 23	The two that really stuck out for me when watching the films were Gandalf's plea to Frodo to 'keep it safe, and keep it secret', which PJ changed to 'keep it secret, and keep it safe' - thus destroying the emphasis on the secrecy. The other one was the missing out of the word 'altogether' twice in Treebeard's explanation that he is 'not altogether on anyone's side, as nobody is altogether on my side'. Again, nuance, depth and characterization are lost. If PJ had been just a bit braver with taking more lines directly from the book, it would have helped the films feel immeasurably more 'Tolkien-esque', rather than the strange, clumsy hybrid of old and new dialogue that we hear so often.