why don't people like arwen in the movie? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

HCIsland · 01-19-2003, 03:12 PM

Slings and arrows time.<P>PJ had to lose Glorfindel. You can't give a character a scene like that in a movie and the have him drop off the planet. It doesn't work. As well, he had to expand Arwen's role. The romance between her and Aragorn is lifted right out of the book. The appendix is as much LoTR as the rest of it. Much of the best stuff is in there. <P>He also can't have Arwen show up at the end like some kind of trophy bride for Aragorn. In the book you can talk about her lineage and history and it works fine. In a movie you've got to show her doing something. This is not about political correctness. This is about the differences between celluloid and the printed page.<P>H.C.<p>[ January 19, 2003: Message edited by: HCIsland ]

01-19-2003, 03:12 PM	#8
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	Slings and arrows time.<P>PJ had to lose Glorfindel. You can't give a character a scene like that in a movie and the have him drop off the planet. It doesn't work. As well, he had to expand Arwen's role. The romance between her and Aragorn is lifted right out of the book. The appendix is as much LoTR as the rest of it. Much of the best stuff is in there. <P>He also can't have Arwen show up at the end like some kind of trophy bride for Aragorn. In the book you can talk about her lineage and history and it works fine. In a movie you've got to show her doing something. This is not about political correctness. This is about the differences between celluloid and the printed page.<P>H.C.<p>[ January 19, 2003: Message edited by: HCIsland ] __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor