Missing Fell Beast? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Only Real Estel · 01-04-2005, 01:32 PM

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Oh yeah, yet another way for the invincible named characters to take the action away from the rank-and-file

Legolas shot one down in the books...

Neurion · 01-04-2005, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by The Only Real Estel

Legolas shot one down in the books...

He did, but I'm talking about the movies, where just about all of the secondary characters (like Beregond) were eliminated.

Essex · 01-05-2005, 06:24 AM

yeah but then you'd have about 500 characters in the film and this just wouldn't work for the average movie goer, and even die hard book readers might have problems remembering who's who when it comes to secondary characters.

Neurion · 01-05-2005, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Essex

yeah but then you'd have about 500 characters in the film and this just wouldn't work for the average movie goer, and even die hard book readers might have problems remembering who's who when it comes to secondary characters.

Oh get real. there would only be 8 to 10 minor characters to keep track of.

**The Saucepan Man** · 01-05-2005, 08:00 AM

Neurion, please refrain form belittling the coherently explained views of others. Discussions here should be conducted in the spirit of politeness and civility.

Neurion · 01-05-2005, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Neurion, please refrain form belittling the coherently explained views of others. Discussions here should be conducted in the spirit of politeness and civility.

Sorry. My apologies.

(Though I consider the assertion of "500 characters" to be a tremendous exageration)

Essex · 01-05-2005, 08:26 AM

no worries. welcome to the downs by the way.

I wonder if anyone does have a character count, major and minor, for the whole (book) trilogy? No doubt it would be less than 500, but I reckon it runs into the hundreds (ie those with speaking parts or actually named as characters in the book)

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The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Neurion, please refrain form belittling the coherently explained views of others. Discussions here should be conducted in the spirit of politeness and civility. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

01-05-2005, 06:24 AM	#3
Essex Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 886	yeah but then you'd have about 500 characters in the film and this just wouldn't work for the average movie goer, and even die hard book readers might have problems remembering who's who when it comes to secondary characters.

01-05-2005, 08:26 AM	#7
Essex Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 886	no worries. welcome to the downs by the way. I wonder if anyone does have a character count, major and minor, for the whole (book) trilogy? No doubt it would be less than 500, but I reckon it runs into the hundreds (ie those with speaking parts or actually named as characters in the book)