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Sauron the White · 12-10-2007, 08:35 PM

At the risk of stating the obvious JRR Tolkien sold two of his books to be made as films. Tolkien did this of his own free will, as a thinking adult weighing the various options in front of him. He also signed a contract giving up any control of the content of these films, the use of characters or anything else contained in THE HOBBIT and LOTR. He made a very clear choice - money or art and he selected money which he was paid in full. To then offer arguments which appear to claim that movies of his books are less than honest is a complete fraud.

You want to get angry about somebody you think ruined the books of JRR Tolkien? The first person in line is JRRT himself.

I have said it before and will say it again here. I find it simply amazing that the world embraced the three LOTR films as they never embraced any other such films before. Professional film critics loved them and the film industry showered them with awards of excellence. They were wildly successful beyond what anyone had a right to expect of them considering that LOTR adaptions had a pretty lousy track record. But is that good enough for the hardcore purist word community? Nope. Nothing less than a word for word, page for page translation would have pleased some folks and even then we would have heard how they got the first 26 hours pretty spot on but them mixed up the speech on page 1046.

I say that in all seriousness.

12-10-2007, 08:35 PM	#12
Sauron the White Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 903	At the risk of stating the obvious JRR Tolkien sold two of his books to be made as films. Tolkien did this of his own free will, as a thinking adult weighing the various options in front of him. He also signed a contract giving up any control of the content of these films, the use of characters or anything else contained in THE HOBBIT and LOTR. He made a very clear choice - money or art and he selected money which he was paid in full. To then offer arguments which appear to claim that movies of his books are less than honest is a complete fraud. You want to get angry about somebody you think ruined the books of JRR Tolkien? The first person in line is JRRT himself. I have said it before and will say it again here. I find it simply amazing that the world embraced the three LOTR films as they never embraced any other such films before. Professional film critics loved them and the film industry showered them with awards of excellence. They were wildly successful beyond what anyone had a right to expect of them considering that LOTR adaptions had a pretty lousy track record. But is that good enough for the hardcore purist word community? Nope. Nothing less than a word for word, page for page translation would have pleased some folks and even then we would have heard how they got the first 26 hours pretty spot on but them mixed up the speech on page 1046. I say that in all seriousness.