<BR> Re: Is the movie such a good idea?</b><br><br> Well my thoughts are this, Yes and No.<br> For Tolkien fans it is the worst possible thing to do.<br> A movie with time restraints, budget restraints, and limited resources in actors can never possibly live up to the expectations or pre-visualized notions of how the characters look, how scenes should be filmed or how scenery and costumes should be portrayed.<br> There are parts of the book that are interesting and wonderful but aren't really neccessary to tell the story.<br> As an example, The role of Glorfindel. Tolkien created a whole world with all sorts of back stories that are included in LOTR because he thought that these stories would never see the light of day.<br> Glorifindel is great but shows up saves the day and then really isn't in the rest of the books. This role is easily allocated to another character who does play a continuing role(like Legolas in the animated version.)<br> Why is it a good idea? Becausse there are many people who don't even know that these stories even exist. Your average<br> school age person has probably never read the books and this movie is one way of introducing one of the greatest works of Fantasy Fiction to the world. Modern Fantasy wouldn't be what it is today without Tolkien's works.<br> We would be reading another Conan or Tarzan story if not for<br> Mr. Tolkien and this is an important fact that is lost to most of the world. Hopefully the exposure from the movie will bring this great work to the majority of the population instead of the minority.<br> Nuff Said,<br> Valros <p></p>
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