The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum - View Single Post - Should Tom Bombadil have been in the movies?

Thulorongil · 04-19-2003, 11:07 AM

I think that Bombadil should have been in the movies, as well as the Barrow-Downs, because of Pip's sword. If I recall correctly, Pippin's sword (taken from the Downs) once belonged to a Gondorian soldier (or something like that) and was a factor in Denethor being intrigued by the hobbit.<P>I do think, though, that keeping the movie being the whole first volume would be very long if Tom & the Downs were added, but if they had made the movie by "Books" (FotR was really "Book 1" and "Book 2") then there could have been a lot more room for all of the Shire events.

04-19-2003, 11:07 AM	#20
Thulorongil Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: wherever the road may take me Posts: 97	I think that Bombadil should have been in the movies, as well as the Barrow-Downs, because of Pip's sword. If I recall correctly, Pippin's sword (taken from the Downs) once belonged to a Gondorian soldier (or something like that) and was a factor in Denethor being intrigued by the hobbit.<P>I do think, though, that keeping the movie being the whole first volume would be very long if Tom & the Downs were added, but if they had made the movie by "Books" (FotR was really "Book 1" and "Book 2") then there could have been a lot more room for all of the Shire events. __________________ I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, And people who will see a world that I shall never know.