Age change in Théoden

[Sauron the White]

from MatthewM

Why do you suppose Jackson made King Théoden (and in turn his son Théodred) appear about 20-30 years younger than Tolkien described him in the book?

With all due respect Matt, it looks like it took you over five years to figure that one out so its obviously not a huge issue that prevented the films from being a success. Where does it say that the actor portraying Theoden has to be the same age as the character listed in the book? They were both older men. A movie and a book are two very different things.

So much of this is nitpicking at its worse. The more I read this type of stuff I want to see a SNL sketch like the ones they used to do about Trekkies at a a Star trek convention.

Cut to Saturday Night Live at a LORD OF THE THINGS convention:

"YEAH!!!! And what about all the errors in those stupid movies that were a disgrace to the memory of the sainted author"

" Yeah. Heres one. Booie Blahblah is actually 5 foot 9 inches tall in the book and the actor in that stupid movie is actuall 5 foot 10 inches!!!! Whats with that????"

"Thats nothing. Foeey Nannie is actually left-handed in the book but the stupid actor Hackson hired uses their right hand to do nearly everything!!!! Whats up with that????"

"I read in the Encyclopedia of THINGS that The Grand Poobah sits on a black throne made of petrified whale organs in the books but in that stupid movie the throne is dark brown and made of wood??? Whats up with that?????"

"Gosh thats lame. I looked in my three volume Atlas of the World of THINGS and found out that The kingdom of Spetem is suppose to be in the lower half of the hemisphere and rather warm but in one scene you can see the breath of one of the terrible actors!!!!! Whats up with that?????"

"That makes me sick. How about in the banquet scene at the Glittering Hall of Wrobel and you can clearly see that there are green peppers on the table!!! Green Peppers of all things!!!! I went home and checked the August 1984 issue of Amen Hun and there was an article by Dr. Verne Klemper who wrote about the botany of Wrobel. He never listed green peppers as one of the things you could grow there. How stupid are these people who write these films? How come they did not do any research to get it right?"

And so it goes on.