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01-10-2009, 07:07 PM | #1 |
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Why was Merry at the last battle?
ok in the rotk movie why is Merry at the last battle? i mean he was at the house of healers because he had stabbed the witch king so he got that black death stuff or what you-may-call it ooh and i don't remember Aragorn killing the mouth of sauron whats with that?
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01-10-2009, 07:55 PM | #2 |
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please post i want answers
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01-10-2009, 08:02 PM | #3 |
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Personally, I've only viewed the movies once (one time too many), and that several years ago, so I really can't help you.
This thread does, however, seemingly belong in the forum curiously titled "The Movies".
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01-10-2009, 10:32 PM | #4 |
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Ha ha ha!
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01-11-2009, 05:57 AM | #5 |
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The answer is: hobbits and villain-decapitation are cool.
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01-11-2009, 07:18 AM | #6 |
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This is a movie topic, so I'm moving the thread to the appropriate forum. Please continue reading and discussing there - thanks!
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01-11-2009, 08:34 AM | #8 |
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Probably he did not want to split up the Merry-Pippin duo, just as Sam-Frodo. They had just found each other after the battle at Minas Tirith and PJ wasn't going to separate them again.
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01-11-2009, 08:39 AM | #9 |
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I'm surprised *anyone* was left of of the last battle. I think, however, the reason to include Merry was to use his tie to Pippin to evoke yet more emotion...oh my, these two are such friends and what if they were to die? sniff
And no one but Merry would give a pip if Pip were lost...
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01-11-2009, 10:41 AM | #10 |
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Part of the reason why Merry was there could also be to centralize the hobbit emotion. Keep Merry and Pippin together so that way there is no random panning to The Houses of Healing, which, actually, weren't in the original theatrical release. It's hard to have a main character in a place that doesn't really exist to movie goers.
As for Aragorn(which I now have to look at to make sure its spelled right, damn Tudor history) beheading the Mouth of Sauron, he needed to die. Who else better to kill him than Aragorn? Plus, as it has been said, it's the movie, it looks good.
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01-11-2009, 10:59 AM | #11 |
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thank you
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Did people whoop and holler when the head flew off? Then that's all there is to it. I don't want the film to be compromised for such people, but it's not about what I want - it's about how ridiculously successful the films were. Yes, many subtleties were lost in this version, but you had to expect that.
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01-12-2009, 05:14 AM | #16 |
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Well, they really took the whole "we captured and tortured Frodo" thing and laid it out there, hence giving Aragorn a reason to lose his temper (and he is very different from the book Aragorn, of course). Not a very great or convincing reason, because even the movie Aragorn was more restrained and thoughtful than that, but it worked visually, Eomer is right. And the Mouth wasn't really a guy, was he? He seemed more like a reanimated corpse - a direct extension of Sauron.
I personally didn't how he spoke with a very obvious foreign accent - Middle Eastern, was it? Guess I'm just sick of the "dark, barbaric foreigner" meme. Coupled with the "men of the West line," complete with terrible delivery from Viggo (an excellent Strider, imho, and a pretty bad King), it was just so blatant, there was no nuance. And I'm as big of a fan of dark, Other-izing tales as... um, other people?
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01-12-2009, 08:46 AM | #17 |
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i always thought the mouth of sauron was a sorcerer in the service of sauron who came over from the east many, many years ago and honesty i don't Viggo um um i don't remember his last name right now you know who i'm talking about. anyway i dont think he did a good aragorn
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01-12-2009, 05:13 PM | #19 |
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The way they presented him the movies - there was just no context. He was a monster. And a scary one at that.
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Orlando Bloom may have done more (both good and bad) for the popularity of The Lord of the Rings movie, book, and franchise, than anyone else.
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01-13-2009, 02:45 AM | #22 |
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Orlando is my boy. I wasn't a book fan when I went to see the first film, I hadn't gotten around to reading Tolkien at that point, so I was going "whoooo's that?" along with the rest of them. Although, the guy who was explaining everything to me wasn't as traumatized as you with your classmates - I bet. We were in our last year of high school, and he and i did end up seeing each other for a while... Hmmm. Maybe that's where it all began, actually, at that fateful FotR viewing!
Of course, poor Bloom had the worst lines ("a diversion" - I'm still giggling over that years later), which, in a way, is just as bad as the way they set up the Mouth of Sauron. Or maybe not. The Mouth of Sauron did not provide any visual gratification.
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01-13-2009, 09:28 AM | #23 |
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where getting of the subject this thread is on merry
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01-13-2009, 10:05 AM | #24 |
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Slightly! Think that your thread, thewichtking, has been hijacked. Welcome to the Downs, by the way.
Anyway, in the Extended version of RotK, we get a brief moment in the Houses of Healing - far too little for me. Merry is no where to be seen, and so why he's not in the vanguard would be a mystery. For example, who would he speak with regarding 'those that have gone east to meet their Doom?' The healers? The Herbmaster? Ioreth? Eowyn gets a moment with Faramir, and Merry would be a third wheel in that scene. And so Merry is sent east.
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This is one of the hallmarks of discussion threads on the 'Downs. A very standard occurrence, actually. When the original discussion has run its course (and what more can be said of Merry being plopped indecorously down at the Black Gates on the whim of an egoistic director?), the discussion digresses into tangents.
Don't worry, it'll come around again. It sometimes takes four or five years, but someone will post on the original topic again.
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I think it would be funny if, in an ode to Merry's pointless appearance at the battle of the Black Gate, they got him to show up at the Battle of Five Armies. It would be quirky, you know? Fans would love it.
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Why not, but only together with Pip
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