Dumbing it down

[lord of dor-lomin]

So, you would rather PJ made up something totally different if parts of his adaption, which were TRUE to the book, clashed with other changes he made? No way, I would rather he stayed faithful to the book as much as possible.

You've gotta be kidding me.

You'd choose a greater number of book scenes over coherency??

Even if PJ makes a change, you want him to be faithful to the book in a later scene and ignore the change??

Following that logic, PJ should have had Eomer fighting at Helm's Deep with Theoden and Aragorn, since that's what he did in the book. Never mind the fact that in the movie Gandalf rode away to get him. PJ should've, without any explanation, stuck Eomer in Helm's Deep.

Ooh, and he also should've had The Mouth of Sauron ride away on his horse with a fully intact head since that's what he did in the book. Nevermind that ten seconds ago we saw Aragorn cut his head off. We'd rather see another scene accurate to the book than to see things that make sense.

Brilliant idea, Essex.

But to say you think it would be better to totally change the scene to cater for non book readers?

I don't think PJ should've changed anything for non-bookers- I agree with you on that. BUT, he did change things, and once he changes something I think it's better to follow through on the change and have the rest of the movie make sense than to ignore the change later and end up with an accurate book scene that doesn't flow with the rest of the movie.