Annoying lines

[Mithadan]

Alasse, you picked a good (or bad) one. Gimli got stuck with a lot of bad lines. “Toss me” leaps to mind. Then there’s his burp in Edoras. I’m sure there are more. It seems that Jackson generally used Dwarves as comic relief. The Hobbit movies were even worse.

[Alassë Estel]

Yes, I quite agree.

While I give the Hobbit movies more credit than many, I find it rather appalling just how discourteous and oafish the Dwarves were portrayed to be.

I think, Tolkien's Dwarves are "less refined" in a way perhaps, as compared to other peoples, but not merely comedic relief.

At any rate, Jackson's Dwarves are certainly not what I picture when reading Thorin's final words, or of Gimli's great awe for Galadriel.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

The script blunders within the first 60 seconds: "Nine rings were gifted <gag!> to the race of Men, who above all else desire power." Malarkey! Purest rubbish! Cliche replacing Tolkien's own rather subtle thought!

Tolkien said, on many occasions and in many ways, that what Men desire above all else is immortality. He described the basic theme of LR as "Death, and the quest for Deathlessness." The Nine Rings and the Nazgul themselves are tied up in that! (Not to mention Numenor, and the Dead of Dunharrow, and and and....)