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[joxy]

>you will agree that Tolkien didn't always write in a way that would
be amenable to film.

>did it matter to you how much detail they went into in order to
depict Middle Earth properly?

I do not agree with that! Nor did Jackson and his family! In many
scenes they were staisfied to use dialogue direct from Tolkien, and
there's absolutely no reason why they couldn't have found original
dialogue for every scene. One of Tolkien's great characteristics is
his consistent style of writing. Jackson was often happy enough with
what he had the privilege of working on, and that makes it all the
worse when at other times he substituted his own inventions which are
so inferior to the original.

Yes, of course, that "mattered". There is an enormous amount of superb
material from Tolkien in the three films; but again that makes it all
the worse that some parts, like the famous curate's egg, the products
of Jackson's feeble imagination, are so bad.