Do you like Arwen's role in The Lord of the Rings? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Magician of Nathar · 04-25-2003, 07:59 PM

I really loved and enjoyed Arwen's role, so did my friends. We all read the books before seeing the movies, but we still loved the changes. Movie is a different media than book. There is no room for that slow unravelling of splendour that was so keen in Tolkien's works. It will bore the audiences to death. Arwen's role is simply for show. Her entrance, her ride and the bring-down-the-nazguls thing is to excite the audiences. It's a little spice PJ used, just like all the other changes he made. I find most people here at downs are so busy defending Tolkien's work that they failed to enjoy the freshness and vigour of the PJ's movies. It is an adaption anyway. Would you rather have the whole book on screen, with every dialogue precisely intact?

04-25-2003, 07:59 PM	#15
Magician of Nathar Animated Skeleton Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 46	I really loved and enjoyed Arwen's role, so did my friends. We all read the books before seeing the movies, but we still loved the changes. Movie is a different media than book. There is no room for that slow unravelling of splendour that was so keen in Tolkien's works. It will bore the audiences to death. Arwen's role is simply for show. Her entrance, her ride and the bring-down-the-nazguls thing is to excite the audiences. It's a little spice PJ used, just like all the other changes he made. I find most people here at downs are so busy defending Tolkien's work that they failed to enjoy the freshness and vigour of the PJ's movies. It is an adaption anyway. Would you rather have the whole book on screen, with every dialogue precisely intact?