Who/What is Gothmog? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 06-29-2004, 04:51 AM

The films are not the books. Even if they had followed the details of the books in every way, they would still not answer questions like this, because they are just a visual interpretation of Tolkien's writing. Only J.R.R. Tolkien, as Gothmog's inventor, could say for certain who or what he was supposed to be. Learned speculation based on things that Tolkien did say is acceptable, but to use the films to support that speculation, when we know that they don't even follow the plot of his book, is as ridiculous as using one of our RPGs to do so; more so in my opinion. I think that NightKnight was pointing out an inconsistency between the book and the film to demonstrate just why the films shouldn't be used to explain the books.

This part of the forum is for in-depth discussions of Tolkien's writing. I'm sure that they're interested in speculation about film-Gothmog's race over in Movies, but it just doesn't belong here.

Why am I even arguing this? The whole thread's in the wrong place and redundant, so I don't expect that it'll be open for long.

06-29-2004, 04:51 AM	#10
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	Here we go again The films are not the books. Even if they had followed the details of the books in every way, they would still not answer questions like this, because they are just a visual interpretation of Tolkien's writing. Only J.R.R. Tolkien, as Gothmog's inventor, could say for certain who or what he was supposed to be. Learned speculation based on things that Tolkien did say is acceptable, but to use the films to support that speculation, when we know that they don't even follow the plot of his book, is as ridiculous as using one of our RPGs to do so; more so in my opinion. I think that NightKnight was pointing out an inconsistency between the book and the film to demonstrate just why the films shouldn't be used to explain the books. This part of the forum is for in-depth discussions of Tolkien's writing. I'm sure that they're interested in speculation about film-Gothmog's race over in Movies, but it just doesn't belong here. Why am I even arguing this? The whole thread's in the wrong place and redundant, so I don't expect that it'll be open for long. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?