J.R.R. Tolkien
~ And the books there of ~
Some topics to get conversation started:
~ And the books there of ~
Some topics to get conversation started:
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So, it seems that whenever you ask someone how they think the books of Lord of the Rings compared to the movie the first thing they always seem to say is "they left out Tom Bombadil!".
I'm curious as to why that is.
Yeah, Bombadil was entertaining and all but he really didn't add anything to the story and I think Peter Jackson was perfectly justified in taking out the three chapters that included him. Really, I think the only reason why Bombadil is so "popular" is because he WASN'T in the movie. Its not so much a preference thing as a status thing.
"I know who Tom Bombadil is, so I must have read the books and the books are hard to read, so if I read them that makes me smart!"
Well, in the books it wasn't Arwen that brought Frodo to Rivendell but Glorfindel. And Haldir and his regiment of elves never showed up to help in the Battle of Helms Deep. Arwen never had that vision of Eldarion (her and Aragorn's son) on her way to the coast. And a really big one, Saruman invaded and burned the Shire in The Two Towers, but that was never shown in the movie and when they return home at the end of Return of the King the Shire looks perfect and untouched. How come you never see anyone mentioning them?
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I love Tolkien's stories, but I gotta say, his narrative can get really annoying at times. He's the type of author who, when describing a person sitting in a chair, they must fist tell you where the chair was maid and by whom, who had sat in it previously, how it got to its present location, etr...
I will never forget the first time I tried reading the LotR trilogy when I got to the scene on Weather Top where Frodo got stabbed. Right in the middle of the action Tolkien stopped and started giving me the history of the blade that was stabbing him.
And in The Hobbit, he interrupts the dwarfs discussion of their plains to tell us an exploit of Bilbo's grandfather (or great-grandfather, they all kinda blend together).
What's your opinion on the writing?
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And this is a fun one. What small event would you change and how would it effect the story?
I'm curious as to why that is.
Yeah, Bombadil was entertaining and all but he really didn't add anything to the story and I think Peter Jackson was perfectly justified in taking out the three chapters that included him. Really, I think the only reason why Bombadil is so "popular" is because he WASN'T in the movie. Its not so much a preference thing as a status thing.
"I know who Tom Bombadil is, so I must have read the books and the books are hard to read, so if I read them that makes me smart!"
Well, in the books it wasn't Arwen that brought Frodo to Rivendell but Glorfindel. And Haldir and his regiment of elves never showed up to help in the Battle of Helms Deep. Arwen never had that vision of Eldarion (her and Aragorn's son) on her way to the coast. And a really big one, Saruman invaded and burned the Shire in The Two Towers, but that was never shown in the movie and when they return home at the end of Return of the King the Shire looks perfect and untouched. How come you never see anyone mentioning them?
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I love Tolkien's stories, but I gotta say, his narrative can get really annoying at times. He's the type of author who, when describing a person sitting in a chair, they must fist tell you where the chair was maid and by whom, who had sat in it previously, how it got to its present location, etr...
I will never forget the first time I tried reading the LotR trilogy when I got to the scene on Weather Top where Frodo got stabbed. Right in the middle of the action Tolkien stopped and started giving me the history of the blade that was stabbing him.
And in The Hobbit, he interrupts the dwarfs discussion of their plains to tell us an exploit of Bilbo's grandfather (or great-grandfather, they all kinda blend together).
What's your opinion on the writing?
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And this is a fun one. What small event would you change and how would it effect the story?
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