Peter Jackson didn't 'get' one of the major themes of the books.
Cate Blanchett (narrating): "The Ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever."
He blows it. Cut ahead a few thousand years, to when
...Frodo destroys the Ring. Evil is destroyed forever! Everyone lives happily ever after.
Never mind this insignificant little passage
Quote:
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days. (The Silmarillion, "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath")
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or the silly concept of the 'Long Defeat'.
(Unnecessary sarcasm, I know).
At worst, PJ missed this important - some would say
defining - part of Tolkien's works altogether. At best, he didn't convey it adequately in Blanchett's aforementioned narration and, more importantly, in the tone of
Return of the King's ending.
Your thoughts?