Letter to PJ - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

ReededGoat · 12-21-2002, 08:00 AM

From what I heard, he keeps a pretty good eye on what's going in the Tolkien Internet world. <BR>I've said it elsewhere, but I will re-iterate - I think it is a disservice to call PJ's choices 'mistakes'. They were obviously well-thought out decisions within their vision of the films - you don't make decisions that aren't well thought out when you're tackling a project of this cost and magnitude.<BR>That said, as I've also stated elsewhere, I think a lot of the choices were unecessary and detracted from the book. In many cases, if they had just stuck to the book, things would have worked better - not just for the adaptation, but for the consideration of the films as just films unto themselves. One big problem was when they started swapping events around in the timeline as it stands in the book - making certain things happen before things that happened after them in the book (wow - that's a nutty sentence - I think y'all get what I mean, though). Since Merry and Pippin's storyline has got a lot to do with hanging around with Treebeard and the non-hasty ents, I'm surprised they didn't try to moderate the monotony of their scenes by having a scene in Treebeard's house - they could have transposed one of the walking scenes to his house to help break up the monotony - I mean, come on, their walking through Fangorn through the WHOLE MOVIE!<BR>Anyways, to get back to the point, I think it would be great if PJ and Co. put out an FAQ online that illuminates all the changes they made and why they felt they needed to make them. I don't look at is as needing to be 'answerable' to us hard-core fans, it would be a cool gesture towards us, though.

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12-21-2002, 08:00 AM	#1
ReededGoat Animated Skeleton Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 32	From what I heard, he keeps a pretty good eye on what's going in the Tolkien Internet world. <BR>I've said it elsewhere, but I will re-iterate - I think it is a disservice to call PJ's choices 'mistakes'. They were obviously well-thought out decisions within their vision of the films - you don't make decisions that aren't well thought out when you're tackling a project of this cost and magnitude.<BR>That said, as I've also stated elsewhere, I think a lot of the choices were unecessary and detracted from the book. In many cases, if they had just stuck to the book, things would have worked better - not just for the adaptation, but for the consideration of the films as just films unto themselves. One big problem was when they started swapping events around in the timeline as it stands in the book - making certain things happen before things that happened after them in the book (wow - that's a nutty sentence - I think y'all get what I mean, though). Since Merry and Pippin's storyline has got a lot to do with hanging around with Treebeard and the non-hasty ents, I'm surprised they didn't try to moderate the monotony of their scenes by having a scene in Treebeard's house - they could have transposed one of the walking scenes to his house to help break up the monotony - I mean, come on, their walking through Fangorn through the WHOLE MOVIE!<BR>Anyways, to get back to the point, I think it would be great if PJ and Co. put out an FAQ online that illuminates all the changes they made and why they felt they needed to make them. I don't look at is as needing to be 'answerable' to us hard-core fans, it would be a cool gesture towards us, though.