argh...so SICK of it.....

[Amy Z <lupinesque@yahoo.com>]

Pip teased:

> Ah, yes. The script did rather have the appearance of the 
> scriptwriters looking at the books and realising that a faithful 
> adaptation of the books would mean that, in movie two:

{snip summary of the actual events of TTT . . . well, just a bit 
distorted for rhetorical effect}

Hee!  I'm tempted to do a point-by-point refutation.  The *movie* is 
the thing that plays up the idea that the Elves are just taking off.  
Including Arwen!  Poor Aragorn, off to battle with the impression 
that his fiancee's decided to opt for eternal life and he's never 
going to see her again.  Unlike in the book, where she's already 
pledged to marry him (if he survives and becomes king, that is--ok, a 
wee catch, but when your dad's older than Middle Earth, you pay him 
some respect).  In the *book* you know why he isn't going to marry 
that nice Eowyn:  because he's ENGAGED to SOMEONE ELSE.  In the 
movie, he's just pining, or magically intuiting that Arwen is going 
to change her mind, or something.

Frodo and Sam walking in the pretty woods?  I thought I saw an awful 
lot of that in the movie (the closer they get to Mordor, the nicer it 
is).  And as for Faramir . . . oh, forget it, I already wrote three 
pages about all this so I'm just going to post that.  Hang on a 
second.  (You didn't really think a Lupin lover was going to tolerate 
a slander on noble Faramir, did you?)

> And I did like the irony of Sam in Osgiliath, saying[from memory]: 
> "A lot of things aren't right. By rights we shouldn't be here at 
> all".
> You never said a truer word, Sam ;-)

I burst out in giggles at that point.  

Seriously, if the moviemakers looked at book two and thought it 
wouldn't make a very good movie, then perhaps they shouldn't have 
made it into a movie.  I personally didn't think the first half of 
the book The Two Towers made a very good book, but it was genuinely 
Tolkien's book, not a bunch of updated Hollywood fantasies* with his 
name plastered on the cover.
 
Amy Z

*that snowboarding bit is going to be deliciously dated--I look 
forward to my children laughing at it 15 years from now the way we 
laugh at alien women with beehive hairdos on Star Trek.