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Date Posted: 17:37:19 01/04/02 Fri
Author: rueyeet
Author Host/IP: 171.159.192.10
Subject: Re: Except......
In reply to: EvilDave 's message, "Re: that ringamajig movie." on 01:12:15 12/31/01 Mon

I too read the books in 5th or so grade...I was a complete Tolkien fanatic at the time. Even started the Silmarillion (but it was too textbookish so I never finished it).

I thought the adaptation was great. Everything important was in there, and everything that wasn't important(Tom Bombadill! and endless landscape descriptions) wasn't. They added in stuff from the Silmarillion and the bits about Isengard from the other books, to keep the chronological order of events, and I could totally go with that even if they hadn't been part of the Fellowship of the King originally, because it gave all the background.

But why, oh why, did they have to give Arwen a sword and a horse? Now, don't get me wrong--I'm all for women doing the fighting thing; one of my absolute favorite scenes in the trilogy is when Eowyn kicks some hardcore Nazgul butt in that final battle. No man of woman born indeed!

But Arwen?!? All she ever did was wait tranquilly at Rivendell sewing Aragorn's battle standard while he went about the world reclaiming his heritage so Elrond would let him marry her! Okay, so Liv Tyler's agent is doing his job; but that was the only part of the movie that just rang untrue. Tolkien didn't HAVE to be PC, dammit!!

God, but I'm a geek. I learned the basics of Elvish writing last weekend. And THAT'll take some practice, let me tell you.

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