The Good and The Bad - a Quick Look at the Movies

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Originally Posted by Boromir88

Well, Bb, I knew that you knew that quote (and you probably knew, that I knew, that you already knew that quote).

Who's on first?

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Aragorn delivers that same message in the movies, just not in monologue form.

See, for some of us (well, maybe just speaking of myself, and not using the royal we) poetically speaking, "the same message" involves all of the ways that a message can aspire to meaning. So, if certain aspects are changed, then the message changes. Notice that Forth the Three Hunters lacks a direct object. Sometimes even the omission of a few small words can change nuance. And in writing such as Tolkien achieves, nuance is valuable, no?

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Aragorn must be Tolkien's version of Hamlet, always wanting to hear himself talk.

What Mithalwen said. The allusion to Hamlet is significant for the character development of Aragorn and to omit it by shortening the monologue is to take away from Aragorn's character rather than to enrich it. JMHO.

Originally Posted by Boromir88

P.S. I happen to think Jonas Armstrong makes a very handsome yet ruggedly capable Robin Hood, by the way.

And I absolutely promise not to make any cracks, wise or otherwise, about closets and leaving them, lest I be once again accused of crossing lines or taking away from the conversation.