I seem to agree with everyone on the thread, average, balanced, happily-merri... whoops, I ain't merried. Does not matter, than. What I would like to communicate is that, agreeing with Rimbaud on points that movie is good as a movie, I can't help agreeing with Lush and Sono that omitting such an important thing is simply bad, and, whilst agreeing with Imladris that not all can be 'filmified', I can't help thinking that Gandalf's discourse in the Last Debate chapter of the book could have been pretty easily reproduced in the Council of Elrond part of the movie. I'm talking about the following:
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Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule
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Read it aloud, it won't take more than two minuts. What is two minutes of movie time for the settling the matter of ultimate importance?
This being said, I would further venture to add that there is nothing in the world we can do about it but to film a movie of our own (contrary to davem's intentions not to do it, ever
As for people whom I haven't named as being in agreement with: I omitted your names not consequent to state of disaccord in our opinions, but purely by accident
