I saw Arwen at Helms Deep! AHHHHH

[Kronos]

OK, let’s be clear. The appendices are not the book. Arwen and Aragorn’s story gets as much depth there as the discussion of Pipeweed gets in the prologue. Are they equally important? Its pretty clear that the Prof did not consider Arwen important and hence banished her to the appendices.<BR>And the appendices count for nothing in regards to the movie. What do you want them to do? Have a bit of text at the end of the film that says “if you want to know more about Arwen then buy the book and read the appendices”?<P>And lets not go through this ludicrous assertion that the LOTR is written from a Hobbits viewpoint. Tolkien may well have intended this but it does not stack up. Stuff occurs that the Hobbits would not have known. If you say that they could have been told about it then I would say why were they not told more about Arwen by Aragorn. The style is too jarring. There is no way that a Hobbit, the same Hobbit that wrote chapter one, wrote the bit about Theoden’s horn bursting when he blew on it such was the power of the blast. (as ludicrous piece of writing as I have ever heard)<BR>I love the way people continuously change what LOTR is to suit their argument. <P>Not enough detail?<BR>Why it’s from the Hobbits viewpoint.<P>Language archaic or events unrealistic?<BR>Its written as a mythology for England.<P>Right so Hobbits wrote a mythology for England.<P>Tell me, if its written from the Hobbit point of view how did they read the mind of the Fox that came across them in the Green Hills country?