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An Interview with JRR Tolkien and Other Tomfoolery
Lord of the Links writes: "These wackjobs pretend to interview JRR Tolkien with a ouija board as well as slapping together other nonsense, like photoshopped Ringwraiths from the movie doing bizarre things. I laughed once or twice, especially the diary by Gollum. The girls side left something to be desired, but the script revisions were kinda funny. If you feel like feeding into the Lord of the Rings hype, check it out."
what did you expect somthing profound ??
Why bother faking an inteview with JRR?
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Plenty of people claim to know what he thinks about the file.
Peter Jackson reckons he'd like it.
JRR's biographer reckons he'd have ignored it.
His son, Christopher Tolkien reckons he'd have hated it.
So there you have it
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Peter Jackson does NOT reckon Tolkien would like the movie adaptations of his works. In an interview he gave to the BBC, Jackson said that he thought that Tolkien would be 'upset with the liberties he'd taken with the script' but that Tolkien 'would probably be glad Jackson had interpreted the major themes correctly.' A two-year old could interpret the major themes correctly. I personally think that Tolkien would come after Jackson with a spoon and a white-hot hazelnut for cutting out important characters and inserting clichéd catchphrases into the greatest fantasy epic ever written.
...Tolkien probably wouldn't be a very happy man, apparently the notion of movies didn't appeal to him at all. He was disgusted by the idea that people would see the scenes and not develop them in their own imaginations, a far better idea he believed! I believe the film rights were sold to his son? or someone... does anyone know more about that...? Joe xxx
What i want to know is what are they going to do about Tom Bombadill...
I mean i understand them having to leave him out for the sake of time, etc, but without the scene from the barrow downs, where does Merry get his sword from? That sword is important later in the 3rd book where he uses it to kill the leader of the Ringwraiths... That's what i'm worried about... Tolkien's writing was so interwoven that everything tied in with something else.
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Dude, if they can give Arwen a major role in the movie, I don't think they're too worried about a sword appearing in the wrong place...
This movie has always been an interpretation of the books, one man's point of view. As far as I'm concerned, the only things that will ever do the books justice ARE the books. I feel bad for the folks who havent read the books and are going to see the films...
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Well, having gone back and reading the books
again, I don't think the shifting material is a problem.
In the introduction (this is the Houghton-Mifflin 50th Anniversary version)
that the story is one book, and the three volumes were
published separately for convenience. Tolkein actually had it
planned out as six books at one point.