<BR> Re: Lurtz</b><br><br> Ahh yes, another change. You see, the Cinema going audience is too stupid to follow the Tolkien plot, so we now have the Newline plot. This "Lord Of The Rings" is not driven by Tolkien's novel of the same name, but by marketing and low expectations of the movie going public, and the movie making companies low estimation of their customers. <br> So, what do we get? Lots of eye candy and special effects, a romance novel love affair, dumb villain-characters only written in so the main characters can get revenge by killing them (think Charles Bronson here) and Japanese martial arts Elves, replete with Samurai armour and katanas. After all, Asian martial arts are all the rage these days, so wouldn't it be cool to make the Elves in the same image? Just throw in a few "celtic" designs to give them that "elvish" look, whatever that is.<br> <br> But why? Why make so many changes and alterations to Tolkien's STORY? Because 50 million people can't be right. Besides, Hollywood knows "what the people want to see", even better than the people. <p></p>
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