Forever?

[davem]

Originally Posted by Imladris

It is the quality of myth. It is a feeling that cannot be described, that cannot be projected.

Ultimately, PJ was doomed to fail in that sense. We would all fail.

Well, I wouldn't have 'failed' 'cos I wouldn't have attempted the thing in the first place. Its that very impossibility to convey the inner battle - a central theme of the work - that doomed the whole thing to failure as an adaptation.

I'm not saying the movies don't work as a depiction of the external battle between good & evil - they are a modern Star Wars in that sense (though I have to admit that the inner, moral, battle came across better in Star Wars than in LotR. I'm just saying that while, superficially, they put Tolkien's story on screen, they don't (because they can't) put the whole thing on screen - the most important themes are missed, or substituted by lesser themes which have been done to death by innumerable other movies.