Comments on: So what did you do with your weekend?

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:34:42 +0000

In reply to Rahel. Yeah, Rahel, that part really bothered me. Plus the whole bit about Aragorn not wanting his inheritance. About the only thing they did right was Boromir.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:54:39 +0000

Every departure from the book in the movies made the scenes less good and less moving than Tolkien wrote them. The one possible exception is the elves at Helm’s Deep, which did not occur in the books at all. As Legolas notes in the book, the Elves and Dwarves of the North had no need to march to Rohan to seek battle; war was coming to their borders.

AND I missed several good characters from the book who were not in the movies, particularly Elros and Elrohir, the sons of Elrond, Halbarad the Ranger, and the Prince of Dol Amroth. Especially the Prince, who, with Gandalf, takes command of Minas Tirith after Denethor abandons hope in mourning for Faramir (and don’t get me started on the movies’ hatchet job on Denethor). Why do Hollywoodheads always “improve” the story from the book and succeed only in making it worse?

By: Rahel

Rahel — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:11:24 +0000

And what about Faramir kidnapping Frodo and forcing him along (even if he had a change of heart and let him go later) — when the book goes to great pains to show that Faramir was not at all that sort of man?

By: Dick Stanley

Dick Stanley — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:00:06 +0000

Good as the movies are, the books are so much better. Particularly The Hobbit. Trailer I saw of the latter, the Bilbo character looks nothing like the Bilbo of the trilogy movies. Pity. But suspect it will still be worth seeing.