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Old 01-01-2003, 06:57 AM   #6
doug*platypus
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I can understand how a filmmaker needs to change things from a book to smooth the translation to big-screen. But I can't understand how so many changes have been made to LOTR that just don't make sense. Theoden's speech to Saruman is one of the great speeches of bookTTT - "and they hewed the body of Hama at Helm's Deep after he was dead!" The deaths of Hama and Theodred are part of Theoden's anger towards Saruman. Maybe since Theodred's death was concentrated on (but not really explained!) so heavily PJ didn't feel the need to cry about Hama. All in all, movieTheoden is much less sympathetic than the guy in the book. We see how sad he is to lose his son, but he seems to be really uncaring and self-centred, more like Denethor. Hama was dead in about two seconds, and didn't even really die heroically. I think the only people that really cared about him would be those that read the book. Poor Hama.
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