a few ques.

[mollecon]

The fact that Gollum speaks a poem that originally belonged elsewhere have a lot to do with how the movies was made from the beginning. Basically, the 3 scriptwriters started out with making a very stripped down version of the story, ridding it of all 'unnecessary' side stories & anything else that swayed the story away from the straight line. Then, <I>after</I> doing that they started putting all the details back - but not necessarily where they originally belonged! Cos the above example of Gollum reciting something that originally belonged elsewhere is certainly not the only example of this in the movies. It was done this way to make it possible to make a good movie version of the story & at the same time keep the Tolkien 'touch' in the story. You can find an explanation of this on the commentary track of the extended version DVD - the one with the 3 script writers, of course.<p>[ February 03, 2003: Message edited by: mollecon ]