Luunna
on my phone so ill just reply to the point about sam rn:
the only reason sam was fat in the movies is because sean astin was the only hobbit who cared enough for his role to put on extra weight (because ALL hobbits are supposed to be pudgy, not just some.) the rest wore fat suits but sean put on 30 pounds or so in real weight
not sure if anyone else pointed that out but THERE YOU HAVE IT
now that i've returned:
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Hobbit feet are never described as being particularly large, but average sized however somewhat wide and flat as are the feet of anyone that walks barefoot more often than not.
this
would count as large??? larger then a human's, anyway, and for the movie, they needed that conveyed.
why is this even a big deal, i have the distinct feeling that this is you looking for reasons to be upset
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He left out Tom Bombadil.
had tom been in the movie, he would have been nothing but a huge time-and-money-sink. they would have needed a lot more time to do him any sort of justice (and even then, people would still probably have complained) and he added nothing to the story. i saw half an hour mentioned somewhere about tom, and im just gonna say it would have taken WAY more then half an hour for tom bombadil to be adequately developed and displayed on film without the entire audience hating him - and even then, i have a feeling they would have
the only good thing that he would have added is the scene with the barrow-wights, and even then, you could switch him out with literally any character and it would have had the same effect
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Boromir was brown haired.
again, i'm forced to ask:
who ******** c a r e s
i dont remember boromir's hair colour being relevant at all to the story
is there a plot i missed where the fact that boromir has brown hair is integral or are you just nitpicking again
the change was probably visual to keep him from looking too similar to aragorn
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Wargs looked like hyenas rather than wolves, and they never encountered them before that one battle.
man why are you getting so up on the visuals in this movie
who cares if the wargs were more hyena-like
i enjoyed their design a lot more then the typical fantasy giant wolf because it actually looked sort of scary as opposed to just being a big dog
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Sam didn't go with Frodo into Shelob's lair
this
is an issue, why, exactly?
ive noticed that when people decide to rag on the movies, they choose the smallest things to pick at and make them out to be the end of the world
when transferring a story between mediums, things have to be sacrificed in the name of telling a good story.
which is, in the end, what jackson did.
he told a good-a** story.
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Sam was waaaaay too mean to Gollum in the movie, though he was a douche to him the books too.
sorry but why SHOULDNT he be mean to gollum
gollum is a s**t and sam knew what he was going to do from the first second he saw him. sam just needed to lay down some dominance
EDIT: ALSO tolkien wrote in a letter that, had gollum not interrupted frodo's claiming of the ring, there would have been two possible outcomes:
1. frodo realizes that he does not, and never will, have the proper ability to fully claim the ring and kills himself in the fires of mount doom
AND 2. a nazgul would have approached mount doom on a fellbeast and coaxed him out with false subservience, wherein sauron would have come out and crushed frodo, then taken the ring for himself
so really even if sam was too mean to gollum and made him crack (which he didnt and would have probably still happened even if sam didnt intervene at all) then it was still for the better
YOUR MOVE
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Saruman was never knows as Saruman of Many Colors in his fabulous rainbow robe in the movies.
you'll notice, if you look at
the other film adaptation of saruman, he also does not retain his rainbow robe
thats because if he did, it'd look ******** stupid and nobody would take him seriously as an antagonist
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He made Pippin screw up too much.
oh no pippin had some sort of viable character arch besides what was seen in the novels HOW DREADFUL
also: i saw glorfindel mentioned somewhere
they switched glorfindel for arwen because glorfindel has that five minutes in the books, and then he's never seen or is relevant again. he might have a larger part in, say, the silmarillion, but he is barely relevant to the lord of the rings trilogy, which is what counts.
arwen had some relevance to one of the lead characters, so she took his role in order to be more firmly established then she was in the novels
i see a lot of people complaining about this also but i dont really see why when this is literally all glorfindel does in the books and then hes never seen again
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