If J.R.R. Tolkien saw the movies.... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Morwen Tindomerel · 06-07-2003, 10:02 AM

I don't think there is any question but the Professor would love some, perhaps even most, of the visual presentation.<P> While he undoubtedly wouldn't like the changes in plotting and characterization it's possible he could have been made to understand the necessity for them. And PJ actually makes fewer and far less drastic changes than the author of the script that Tolkien tears apart in his 'Letters'. <P> I understand Tolkien sold the rights because he wanted the money for his children's education. But sell them he did and so must have been prepared to grit his teeth and endure the consequences . <P> However the fact that the movie has inspired innumerable people to go out and buy the books couldn't help but please him since what he seems to have feared most was that the bowdlerized movie version would replace his. Clearly that hasn't happened.

06-07-2003, 10:02 AM	#30
Morwen Tindomerel Wight Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Minas Anor or Annuminas the Golden Posts: 187	I don't think there is any question but the Professor would love some, perhaps even most, of the visual presentation.<P> While he undoubtedly wouldn't like the changes in plotting and characterization it's possible he could have been made to understand the necessity for them. And PJ actually makes fewer and far less drastic changes than the author of the script that Tolkien tears apart in his 'Letters'. <P> I understand Tolkien sold the rights because he wanted the money for his children's education. But sell them he did and so must have been prepared to grit his teeth and endure the consequences . <P> However the fact that the movie has inspired innumerable people to go out and buy the books couldn't help but please him since what he seems to have feared most was that the bowdlerized movie version would replace his. Clearly that hasn't happened.