Nit-Pickers Guide to Deviations in Jackson's LotR

bcolflesh submits "A lengthy list of deviations to be found when comparing the text of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the translation of those texts to film as undertaken by Peter Jackson, et.al."

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Re:Needless amounts of effort!

[Anonymous Coward]

Often the words are straight from the books, but butchered badly. Often one person's line gets said by someone else, or is used out of context. A few days ago I watched just a few minutes of TTT and noticed a very weird case of butchering the lines to the point where they no longer make sense. It goes something like this.

What business does a man, an elf, and a dwarf have in the Riddermark?

Gimli: Tell me your name horsemaster, and I will tell you mine.

Huh? He didn't ask for your name yet Gimli. That Gimli line is clearly from the book, but in the movie simply makes no sense.

There are probably more just like that, where Peter Jackson didn't even bother to make sure that the lines even had the right context.

Right now there is plenty of buzz about these movies, but in a few years I know they will be picked on hard. Once the hype wears down, people are going to laugh (or be disgusted at the extremely low quality) of these movies.