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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
Ah yes. So we just buy our tickets, take our favorite seats around the well worn track track while, as advertised, the familiar cars scream towards each other at high speeds. They crash, burn and we walk away talking about the recklesness of it all and why did this have to happen yet again?
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At the risk of stating the obvious, JRR Tolkien was a writer of books, not screenplays. He wrote stories for people to read, not for them to be made into films for the hard of thinking. Anyone who wishes to can pick up his books & experience the stories as they were meant to be experienced.
Movie adaptations of great literature are
in most cases essentially trivialisations, & LotR proved this. The one thing that is lost in any adaptation is
language, & Tolkien's language is some of the most beautiful & evocative in modern literature - this is why the radio adaptation of LotR works so well in capturing the spirit & mood of the book: at least 90% of the language (including narration) is taken straight from the book. Its also why the movie fails to capture that mood & spirit: almost none of the dialogue in the movie is Tolkien's & there is no narration. Hence, any movie adaptation is bound to fail, & your thesis that if the movie makers had access to Tolkien's other M-e writings they would be able to create a faithful adaptation is simply incorrect.