*TTT - Overall Impressions - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lhunbelethiel · 12-21-2002, 02:14 AM

If I were an Ent I would give TTT 2 branches up. <P>*cough* Okay, anyway, I think that if these movies are changing people's own personal mind's-eye picture of the story of the Lord of the Rings that you read, and you can't separate the book from the film, then maybe your imagination needs some work. I say this with all due repsect to some of my fellow BarrowDowners who are hysterical about how much they hated the changes from the book to the movie. Really, you have our own ideas of what people/places/things/events were like in the book, so don't let one man's own vision threaten yours. LOTR should not be expected to be adapted scene for scene in film format. To demand that it be completely faithful to the book is greedy. This was Peter jackson's vision and he owed us nothing. We are lucky that he was brave enough to make the films let alone to change what some people think is gospel. (huge fan of the books though I am, you have to be realistic.)<P>I was a little surprised by the changes but I trust PJ to maintain the spirit of the trilogy. I also trust myself to remember what I thought it would be like, and not to fault someone for not being psychically in my head in order to transfer it to the big screen. : :<P><BR>

12-21-2002, 02:14 AM	#11
Lhunbelethiel Wight Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: San Francisco Bay Area (aka Bay of Belfalas) Posts: 103	If I were an Ent I would give TTT 2 branches up. <P>cough Okay, anyway, I think that if these movies are changing people's own personal mind's-eye picture of the story of the Lord of the Rings that you read, and you can't separate the book from the film, then maybe your imagination needs some work. I say this with all due repsect to some of my fellow BarrowDowners who are hysterical about how much they hated the changes from the book to the movie. Really, you have our own ideas of what people/places/things/events were like in the book, so don't let one man's own vision threaten yours. LOTR should not be expected to be adapted scene for scene in film format. To demand that it be completely faithful to the book is greedy. This was Peter jackson's vision and he owed us nothing. We are lucky that he was brave enough to make the films let alone to change what some people think is gospel. (huge fan of the books though I am, you have to be realistic.)<P>I was a little surprised by the changes but I trust PJ to maintain the spirit of the trilogy. I also trust myself to remember what I thought it would be like, and not to fault someone for not being psychically in my head in order to transfer it to the big screen. : :<P><BR> __________________ ~~All that is gold does not glitter, not all who wander are lost, all that is old does not wither, deep roots are not touched by the frost...~~