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Originally Posted by Essex
re Merry picking up a numenorean sword from Aragorn (and the film tie in book says he killed the WK with Theoden's sword he had as a child - stupid!)
It's not just a case of saying, ah well the sword aragorn gave him was numenorean. It's as much about the JOURNEY the hobbits take and what they encounter. It's just as important to say how something was found/given. Let's just change the plot to show Aragorn picking up a blade from the side of the road that was Narsil - let's not bother about the history of the blade and it's significance - that's what we are doing here with Merry's blade.
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In the film I don't see why knowing the history of Merry's sword is important. It seems a minor detail in a sea of information. If we were to explain that it is of Westernese decent who would do it? How long would it take? Would it be more confusing than it is worth? Those are facts and details that make the book wonderful but would just be too much for a cinematic audience to handle, meaning that you need to stick with the core story and small details get left by the wayside. That's the way of it here.
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Originally Posted by Essex
Lalwende: re In the book, Frodo does not sing the song 'for fun' - he does it as a diversion to stop Pippin giving the game away - He slips, falls, and the ring myseteriously ends on his finger - In other words, except for the song, it is pretty much the same as the book - It wasn't about Frodo having fun, it's about stopping Pippin putting his foot in it.
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Ah, but he does sing the song the second time for fun.
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It was now Frodo's turn to feel pleased with himself. He capered about on the table; and when he came a second time to the cow jumped over the Moon, he leaped in the air. Much too vigorously; for he came down, bang, into a tray full of mugs, and slipped and rolled off the table with a crash, clatter, and bump!
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So Frodo initially sang to save Pippin from making a mistake but he had so much fun in doing it that he foolishly did it again.