A HUGE problem with Bombadil's removal.

<BR><br><br> As someone who has grappled with creating a script based on LotR I agree with those here who feel it is not a huge problem plot-wise. I also cut Bombadil and the Barrow-downs...and much more. My original script was 250 pages and had to be cut down to 125. I made the decision that the show really had to hang on the relationship between Frodo and Sam and their attempt to destroy the Ring and the relationship between Gandalf and Aragorn and their challenges in directing the forces of the West. If an element of the novel did not directly affect either of those, I was hard pressed to include it. While I have no warring Arwen, I do have Eowyn at the Council of Elrond in order to introduce her character earlier in the show.<br> <br> If anyone is interested, there is a synopsis of the script and an author's notes section at my site <a href="http://members.theglobe.com/theonering/themusical">THE ONE RING, the musical</a><br> <p></p>