[The Saucepan Man]

Hi MLD-G-K-Willie. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Glorfindel could have been at the Council of Elrond, as he was in the book <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>But there was no room for any character development here, particularly as they had Elrond, not to mention Boromir, Gimli and Legolas, to introduce. And then that would have been it for Glorfindel, since it would not have been feasible to re-introduce him in RotK if he had not been in TTT. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> very un-Tolkienesque. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Is it? Aragorn and Arwen's story is there in the book. And JRRT wrote a strong female character in Eowyn. I do not see Arwen's expanded role as being particularly at odds with his ideas. For me, un-Tolkienesque is Legolas shield-surfing, which I do not like, but can tolerate for the sake of what else there is in the films. In any event, while I do not think JRRT would have been overly-impressed by the films, I think it was HC who argued that he was unlikely to have liked any film version of LotR, and I think that's absolutely right.