Orc lumberjacks-an inconsitensy? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

HCIsland · 09-03-2003, 05:20 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Now, I have a problem with this scene since it serves no logical purpose other than to show that trees/ents/hurons don't like having their branches cut. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I believe you answered your own question. Considering it was stuff like this that was the whole reason Ents and Huorns get involved at all, it was important to show it. I know there was more scenes of orcs tearing down trees earlier in the film, but obviously Jackson felt another incident was needed.<P>By the way, they light fires in the book as well.<P>H.C.

09-03-2003, 05:20 PM	#2
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Now, I have a problem with this scene since it serves no logical purpose other than to show that trees/ents/hurons don't like having their branches cut. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I believe you answered your own question. Considering it was stuff like this that was the whole reason Ents and Huorns get involved at all, it was important to show it. I know there was more scenes of orcs tearing down trees earlier in the film, but obviously Jackson felt another incident was needed.<P>By the way, they light fires in the book as well.<P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor