A what if question - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Makar · 03-09-2005, 01:20 PM

If you watch the various appendixes on the DVDS there are many instances where Fran Walsh says things like, "Professor Tolkien would roll over in his grave if he saw _____, but..." I think the writers were nothing if not brutal in their editing and writing of the script and I think they attributed many of the percieved objections which Tolkien would have had if he were alive as being attributed to his pedantic nature. Aside from the precious details that werre lost, his objections would probably have had to do with the fact that long scenes not in the book were added in at the expense of events that he actually wrote. No marketable film would have been able to satisfy JRRT, partially because I think LotR was for him an exercise in language which could not survive the transfer to another medium.

03-09-2005, 01:20 PM	#5
Makar Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Oklahom Posts: 44	If you watch the various appendixes on the DVDS there are many instances where Fran Walsh says things like, "Professor Tolkien would roll over in his grave if he saw _____, but..." I think the writers were nothing if not brutal in their editing and writing of the script and I think they attributed many of the percieved objections which Tolkien would have had if he were alive as being attributed to his pedantic nature. Aside from the precious details that werre lost, his objections would probably have had to do with the fact that long scenes not in the book were added in at the expense of events that he actually wrote. No marketable film would have been able to satisfy JRRT, partially because I think LotR was for him an exercise in language which could not survive the transfer to another medium.