The Intended and I have been re-watching the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy over the past week, so it seems only appropriate to point you all toward this extended meditation on the nature of the upcoming Hobbit films.
Related? The song We Don’t Need Another Hero is stuck in my head this morning.
I’d be interested in your take on the Trilogy, you being a longtime Tolkien nerd and all.
Yes, there were many liberties taken with the source material (e.g. Faramir, etc.) but overall I was very pleased with it personally.
There have been far worse cinematic adaptations of our childhood favorites…Judge Dredd comes to mind. shudder…
BONUS QUESTION: Balrog wings? Yes or no?
Well over all I liked the movies, enough to own all three multi-disc special editions. And I can see why certain changes needed to be made to to bring the books to screen. I’ve registered my complaints before but in short the following I found hard to take:
–Orlando Bloom – his ‘acting’ consists of two expressions: ‘I wonder what’s for lunch’ and ‘I need to take a poop.’
-Gimli as comic relief. And the dramatic changes to Faramir’s character as well.
-Emo-Aragorn as a reluctant hero, afraid of his heritage. (I actually wrote about this somewhere on my old blog).
-The 18 endings to RotK. They could’ve gone with one ending, and fit in the Scouring of the Shire.
I am still grateful Tom Bombadil and his song n’ dance were omitted routine though.
LOL – thanks for that.