In Defense of PJ - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Birdland · 11-20-2002, 01:00 AM

I have no problem with Arwyn replacing Glorfindel (Do you know what they must have paid Liv Tyler to appear in that film? They had to get their money's worth.) What I did miss was Frodo standing up to the Nazgul. They made him so "sick" in the film that he couldn't have stood up to a stiff breeze.<P>But I suppose that it would have been hard to follow that particular plot twist in a film version. You would have had to cut between the Nazgul, Frodo, <I>and</I> Arwyn giving the river the command (Ooops! "Request") to rise up. It would have taken some very clever editing not to make that confusing. <P>Good points, Diamond! I frankly don't miss Bombadil, myself, or the Gaffer. (Nobody mentions him, either) P.J. did an incredible job of keeping to the spirit of the book without rendering it into a "page-by-page" opus, which nobody could possibly do.

11-20-2002, 01:00 AM	#24
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	I have no problem with Arwyn replacing Glorfindel (Do you know what they must have paid Liv Tyler to appear in that film? They had to get their money's worth.) What I did miss was Frodo standing up to the Nazgul. They made him so "sick" in the film that he couldn't have stood up to a stiff breeze.<P>But I suppose that it would have been hard to follow that particular plot twist in a film version. You would have had to cut between the Nazgul, Frodo, <I>and</I> Arwyn giving the river the command (Ooops! "Request") to rise up. It would have taken some very clever editing not to make that confusing. <P>Good points, Diamond! I frankly don't miss Bombadil, myself, or the Gaffer. (Nobody mentions him, either) P.J. did an incredible job of keeping to the spirit of the book without rendering it into a "page-by-page" opus, which nobody could possibly do.