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**The Saucepan Man** · 02-06-2003, 07:22 PM

This is what happens when you play around with JRRT's carefully wrought text. There are a lot of flaws in the films like this. Things that just don't work because they cut a scene here or added another there. JRRT's plot is extremely complex - nothing happens without a reason or that cannot be explained. It doesn't really matter in the films because most who see them won't notice them, and they certainly didn't spoil my enjoyment of them.

But, I do really wonder whether it was really necessary for Treebeard to take Merry and Pippin to Gandalf. All that it acheives is to build up a little suspense by making the (uninitiated) audience think that the nasty old tree has delivered them to Saruman.

02-06-2003, 07:22 PM	#8
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,436	This is what happens when you play around with JRRT's carefully wrought text. There are a lot of flaws in the films like this. Things that just don't work because they cut a scene here or added another there. JRRT's plot is extremely complex - nothing happens without a reason or that cannot be explained. It doesn't really matter in the films because most who see them won't notice them, and they certainly didn't spoil my enjoyment of them. But, I do really wonder whether it was really necessary for Treebeard to take Merry and Pippin to Gandalf. All that it acheives is to build up a little suspense by making the (uninitiated) audience think that the nasty old tree has delivered them to Saruman. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!