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Updated LOTR Nitpicker's Guide

Posted by timothy on from the be-your-own-grinch dept.

The LOTR Nitpicker writes "A 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. updated to include deviations from the recently released extended edition DVD of The Return of the King. This story originally appeared on Slashdot back in January."

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  1. ...and you thought... by djplurvert · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that building an Apollo guidance computer was a waste of time... ....yawn...

  2. I'm watching ROTK extended DVD now... by gentoo_user · · Score: 5, Funny

    on my gentoo box. Gentoo makes the film sooo much faster, you hardly notice the additional footage at all.

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  3. What is the purpose of this list? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Those who read the books know the deviations Those who didn't don't care

  4. How to get a story submitted on slashdot by j0kkk3l · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Wait for a slow news day like christmas and resubmit an old story. Even mention, that your story is old. 2. ??? 3. Profit!!!

  5. And the biggest deviation of all... by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're 21st-century movies, not 20th-century books.

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  6. Contrary to popular belief... by Paiway · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... shields can not be used as skateboards.

  7. He's lucky... by kirun · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's lucky he didn't try to list the inconsistencies between the various Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy editions. Now *there's* a task to drive you insane.

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  8. A Christmas Wish... by WwWonka · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Santa,

    After nearly spending half an eon watching the extended versions of LOTRs and comparing the text of our beloved JRR Tolkein to each and every sound and syllable of the movies, I am writing you in hopes that you deliver to me this very Christmas the following gifts:

    1. A life
    2. Liv Tyler
    3. Liv Tyler naked
    4. The Extended version of Dune on DVD
    5. The Dune books

    Sincerely,
    The LOTR Nitpicker

  9. The irony of it all by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    How wonderful it is to see so many complaints, so many nitpicking complaints, about how horrible nitpicking is ... and I, who enjoys nitpicking, and holds these nitpicking complaints (I refer to TFA nitpicks about the movies) as especially worthwhile, am in fact required by the nitpickers' guild rules to applaud the movie nitpicking while laughing at the /. nitpickers who are quite openly violating their own non-nitpckers' guild rules by nitpicking the movie nitpickers.

    How many nits should a non-nitpicker pick, if a non-nitpicker picked nits?

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    1. Re:The irony of it all by dswensen · · Score: 4, Funny

      Your only choice now is to write a Nitpicker's Guide to the Nitpickers of the Nitpicker's Guide to Lord of the Rings.