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Shards of Narsil · 10-23-2007, 08:59 AM

I agree with much that is written here, although the elves at Helm's Deep is blasphemy (in my opinion) but its ok to disagree. Taking dialogue and moving it from one character to another I think was good since it allowed the movie's to keep that character. For example, the words given to Treebeard from Tom Bombadil help to keep something from Bombadil in the movies even though his character was removed.

As many have said, the books are still better, but there is one point where the movies may have a slight edge. That is, the movies allowed the story to be told in real time more so than the books. This is especially an issue during TTT and RoTK when there are two separate story lines, those being Frodo and Sam in Mordor, and the rest of the Fellowship in Rohan and Gondor. During the development of the movies, much care was put into having both story lines run parallel to each other so that as the movies went back and forth between them, the events would be occurring beside each other in the timeline as they would have occurred. Tolkien's books just follow one or the other, where he stays with one story line and moves it ahead, and then goes back in time to pick up the other story line and run it ahead, and so on.

10-23-2007, 08:59 AM	#1
Shards of Narsil Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 33	I agree with much that is written here, although the elves at Helm's Deep is blasphemy (in my opinion) but its ok to disagree. Taking dialogue and moving it from one character to another I think was good since it allowed the movie's to keep that character. For example, the words given to Treebeard from Tom Bombadil help to keep something from Bombadil in the movies even though his character was removed. As many have said, the books are still better, but there is one point where the movies may have a slight edge. That is, the movies allowed the story to be told in real time more so than the books. This is especially an issue during TTT and RoTK when there are two separate story lines, those being Frodo and Sam in Mordor, and the rest of the Fellowship in Rohan and Gondor. During the development of the movies, much care was put into having both story lines run parallel to each other so that as the movies went back and forth between them, the events would be occurring beside each other in the timeline as they would have occurred. Tolkien's books just follow one or the other, where he stays with one story line and moves it ahead, and then goes back in time to pick up the other story line and run it ahead, and so on.