No "warmer sound" != distortion. Warmer sound means uninterrupted, un-clipped, un-molested, and generally un-flattened.
Sound is wave, if you recording equipment precisely & accurately records that wave it is ALWAYS a better than digital. Digital is more precise becasue of its consistancy of the medium but by its very nature it is always a simulation. LP's have a significantly higher bandwidth than CD's and are far more sensitive. It is a physical process, the wave is propagated into the medium the reproduced back into sound waves. The only thing wrong with LP's is they are subject to physical ware. If you can afford it you could listen to a record only once and throw it away. Then you remove any limitations to the medium.
The best sound systems in the world are still using tubes, Mark Levinson No. 33 aside. Yes if you use some 96Khz DVD you might be able to beat LP's for bandwidth but then I could make an upgraded vinyal system too. Firewire is a good example of using analouge signals with a digital system to get a better bandwidth.
We could have had a gun that puts things in orbit if the US Govenrment hadn't had their collective heads up their asses. Now the South Africans have the best artilery in the world and we have shit. Gerald V. Bull was the man when it came to ballstics.
I have a "friend" who works for a "corporation" who was made to move a huge e-mail system from BSD to "another OS" becasue they "should eat there own dog food." He loved NT 3.51 becasue once it was ironed out with a tactical nuclear weapon it was STABLE. They are now onto 2000 but wouldn't be without the pressure to conform.
For one of my last jobs I had to throw faggots on a dike. In this case it was a bundle of sticks on earthen mound. The sticks were to keep the cows from taking the most direct route to the water and eroding the dike. Just goes to show that sometimes words work for what they were meant for.
It also goes to show that when you get laid off from your tech job there's always a farmer who needs somone to wade through cow shit and poison oak for a louset $8 and hour.
p.s. Psychology studies and meta analysis have shown clearly that the most homophobic people are the most likely to be aroused by homo-erotica. You can learn some funny stuff with a tumescence monitor and some photos.
If the Space Elevator works we might be able to cut that cost by a huge margin. So all you nano-tech researchers quit reading/. and get back to work on long nanofibers!
More than this many families are now in the "two income trap" meaning they make enough to get by with both Mom and Pop working. So if ones jobs goes, you go from middle income to low income. Snap just like that.
Wait, I think I smell something... oh yeah tax cuts for the rich yeeeeeee-ha!
The chance of a discussion involving Bush being a facist and therefor compaired to a Nazi is always one due the the facts of history.
Goodwin's law is a funny thing though as I have seen it happen on everything from Microsoft posts to Rave posts. I think it happens becasue for us in post 20th centruty America Nazi=Satan and so the hotter people get under th collar the more likely they are to invoke the ultimate badness.
Who the fuck is this 'Evan Coyne Maloney' to criticize Walter Cronkite? That was a pretentious bit of editorializing if I have ever read it. With his jackass "out of focus" picture and his collar turned up.
Next time you try to make a point wipe the shit off your finger first.
Noam Chompsky's extensive analysis of the media indicated that it was very balanced in 'right' 'left' sense but whole unblanced twords capitalism. Not supprising becasue the media is a capitalist enterprise.
Walter Cronkite admited he was a liberal he did not say that the whole media was statisically slanted to the left.
Ok you claim like many people that this was a gamble and I totally disagree. This is the most popular fiction trilogy of all time. That is a huge captive customer base. In addition Peter Jackson doesn't give a fuck about popular support for his movies. Hmmm lets think about his prior work shall we? Bad Taste (Most offensive movie ever) Dead Alive (Some highlights are a Zombie Priest fucking a Zombie woman to give birth to a Zombie baby and a giant slobbering motherly toothed vagina) Heavenly Creatures (a movie about not believing your own bullshit.) Meet the Febbles (a Muppet movie about a fly that eats shit and a family show that has a snuff porno ring in the basement.) Ok so from those simple examples can clearly see that New Line realized they were hiring a mad man. So I reject you argument with extreme prejudice.
Also he has been widely publicized that they gave Peter Jackson full control.
If you think that the Tao is "lousy pop-philosophy" you're smoking crack. A) its the oldest group of people who have continuously practiced the scientific method. B) it's the only philosophy or religion that can account for Quantum Mechanics.
I would say that anything that flows has the Tao. That's all the Tao is flow and direction without resistance. Unfortunately the Tao that can be written is not the real Tao so what I said is incomplete. That doesn't mean that something written cannot have the Tao. Also you might want to note the paradox and circular thinking are key to understanding the Tao. Zen Konans are the Japanese interpretation of Tao combined with Buddhist thought.
I also say that a masterwork is art that is fractal in nature. e.g. Jackson Pollok's paintings appear to be random but if you look each part is a map of the whole. Just like each cell in a living organism contains the plan for the whole. It is internal consistence. That is why Hayao Miyazaki is a master he can reduce a massive concept to a single image. Tolken achieves that regularly. PJ cannot bludgeon art into his own image. This is what happened when he screwed with the Ents, with the end of Helms Deep and with Faramir. He just plain fucked up. There was no need to change these things. He could have refrained from wrecking the characters without making the film longer or more marketable. Tolken marketed the characters and idea pretty well already. PJ thinks at best that he's gilding the lily, but what he really doing is breaking the flow.
The Halflife comment was meant to be funny and was in fact fitting. Resonance Cascade. Think about it in the context I am talking about. A single disharmony cascading down through the story creating resonance. Its what I'm talking about. Because I am willing to access metaphors outside of the fantasy realm but within the slashdot realm does not degrade my argument.
You say that PJ created a new river but you wrong. He tried to paint a river. But instead of accurately representing it in a different style he started to paint the river, got board and doodled in the corner because he didn't like the view. If you look at 100 paintings of Paris you can still tell its Paris whether its impressionist, realist, baroque or whatever. But PJ stopped accurately representing the image. This is Hubris. He is not making ART, he is reinterpreting someone else's art. That is technology. He has no muse. He lost the Tao. However you say it still the same concept. Art come from god (in the broadest and most inclusive sense of the word) technology comes from man.
I don't want a movie that is identical. I just want it to refrain from making continuity errors that are grievous and needless.
For the record I LOVED the first movie because he made changes that worked and had flow. That's why I hated this movie, it shows lost potential not mere stupidity or negligence. In this case it is worse to have loved and lost.
Um not really. At the point where Frodo is taken to Osiligoth in the movie Sauron hadn't let any of his army out of Mordor. What you are talkinga bout happens in the middle of the ROTK and what were are talking about is in late TTT. Also a woman slays the wrath not a hobbit.
Ahhh but there is great debate if Tom was a Maiar or if he was in fact Manwe himself.
Correct me if I'm wrong but were the Wizards Maiar? I don't think so, clearly Saruman was of the Westerness but was not created by Illuvitar and did not exist prior to Melkor's fall. They seem to be men sent back to Middle Earth by Manwe to balance Sauron's power.
Meklor's 'way' was only a disharmony in the music of Illuvitar.
TTT sucked becasue Jackson didn't learn from Lucus. 'Make the 2nd movie end on a down note' to parapharse Randall from Clerks. Fordo should be dead and Sam alone in Mordor.
You could fit book 6 into about 30 minutes. Most of the meat of the 2nd half of the third book is geneology of the house of whatever. So moive 5 or "The Return of the King" might be 3 and a half hours. I do like the idea of M&P telling "There and Back Again"
But Glamdring the Foe Hammer better glow in the Great Goblin scene or I am going to pass boulder.
The women and children in the book were taken by the Eowen into the hills. Jackson clearly though he needed to add a little more dramatic tension to the scene so he had the women and kids cowering in helms deep.
Eowen gets to slay the king of the nine, no small feat.
But I think you missed the level of power that Sauron would have excersized if one of the Nine found the ring in Osgiliath. Minis Morgul is about 5 minutes away by Winged steed. So in 5 minutes all the Nine would have showed up an no power on Middle Earth would have saved Frodo. If the ring was detected that close to Morodor it would have been the end of the book. A. The orc in Minis Morgul would have come down out of the Morgul vale and marthced on Osgiliath, cutting off any way for Frodo and Sam to waltz up there and sneak past. Plus Sauron wouldn't have waited, his whole army would have attacked right then so army 1 comes from the north, army 2 is already on the move from the south and army 3 would have come directly from the East through Minis Morgul. There's no way out of that trap.
The thing about women is something of a cultrul artifact. How many women were fighting in WWI? Just becasue there are no women does mean this thing is sexist, the only women in the book are stong and brave. Just accept that gems are precious and rare and not to be gaudy sprinkles.
I loved the Fellowship of the Ring. It was internally consistant and the changes he made worked.
For example... you can reduce a story to one sentance. The MOIVE of The Fellowship of the Ring can be reduced to "The Ring tests the members of the company." The is what drives the moive. Each introduction of a major character and who they are is defined by this conflict. Good vs. Evil, Right vs. Wrong. Hence GOOD MOIVE. Two tumbs up three stars.
For example... The BOOK The Two Towers can be reduced to the sentance, "The meak recruit the strong." Merry and Pippen recruit Fangorn. Pippen recruits Denethor, Frodo recruits Smegol, and Sam and Frodo recruit Faramir.
When Jackson got it right in TTT is when he followed this. e.g. Smegol. Golumn Smegol is truly great in this movie. It is in fact the best story telling in the film. But when Jackson lost it with Faramir he forced the movie into a path fundamentally different form the book, e.g. the Nazgul at Ositligoth. He also lost it with the Ents, Merry and Pippen trick Fangorn into helping them. The meak do not trick the mighty, the good do not trick the good. Tolken relied on Merry and Pippens goodness to entice angorns friendship and in turn thier quickness inspired Fangorn to action. Same error when Eomer and Gandlaf save Helms deep, Emomer had one Platoon not an army. This logically fallicy is painful and looses one of the deep environmental undertones of the book. Why the Uriki are so evil is they are a Frankenstien Monster. They use technology to violate nature, this pisses of the Ents, natures servents and they go and kill em. Waking up to a forest and no Orcs is more bad ass then making 20 guys morph into 2000.
Also you clearly don't get the death treat... F34nor = Feanor fairest of those who saw the light of the two tress of the Valinor. Ever wonder why the elves were so sad? Well its becasue Feanor swore to recove the Simirils from Melkor (Sauron's God and master) and slew the elves who wouldn't give him and his follwers the boats. This is why the high elves are in middle earth becasue they follow Feanor back across the sea to Middle Earth to war against Melkor for the Simirils. So it was a Joke. Also the whole fiore up the lawn mower and KICK ASS FOR THE LORD was a comment of Dead Alive, Jacksons zombie movie. I like Peter Jackson I like his movies, he just lost the Tao.
Anyway what do you expect, Jackson is doing exactly what he warned people not to do when he made Heavenly Creatures. He has come to believe his own lie more than reality.
Basically when Jackson made this movie he entered into a sacred covenant with the millions of people who know and love Tolken. So far the changes he has made for good reasons, e.g. Tom B. etc. were fine because he kept some sort of foot on the ideological floor of the world he was working in. The problems arise when he does things for no reason, or bad reasons e.g. Faramir. These changes create what I will call a resonance cascade (Halflife.) Basically once you've shit in your own well water your fucked. Changes made in the middle with no regard for the end cause people who can reduce the whole to a singularity great pain. If you are dumbass and cannot conceive of the whole then your fine, you remain happily awed by the pretty colors, if on the hand you can see the whole in each part then those mistakes break the whole.
See if Tolken was making a movie of The Book of Mormon this would all be fine. You can make changes to a idea and make it work if the idea isn't internally consistent. Unfortunately for Jackson he opened Pandora's box by makes the changes, he broke the Tao of the Lord of the Rings. Tolken was a true master in every sense of the word. He was a master of language, e.g. he can create beauty and strength in one form. He was a master of men, e.g. he was the head of the classics dept. at one of the best Universities in the world. And he was a master of story telling across all levels e.g. The Christmas Letters for Kids, The Hobbit for young adults, The Lord of the Rings for adults, and what became the Simirilion for Adults, other Masters and Academics. I would say that as a true master Tolken had the Tao. Everyone who has read and love the Lord of the Rings knows this, it hurts to interrupt the flow, even to put the book down because it has the Tao. By dropping boulders of shit in the flow Jackson created eddies that disrupt the harmony the Tolken created. Now don't get me wrong I support Jackson's creative freedom but outside of this that are explicit. No one knows what Moria looked like and I say Jackson did a damn good job with it. In fact Jackson did a damn good job with ALL the minutia but he lost the forest for the leaves. He lost the Tao.
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We should refer to it as the way the corporations were able to aquire human rights despite their limited liability.
Rambus where are you now?
P.S. sig=funny but Cults are marked by using cognitive dissonance for recruitment. e.g LDS
No "warmer sound" != distortion. Warmer sound means uninterrupted, un-clipped, un-molested, and generally un-flattened.
Sound is wave, if you recording equipment precisely & accurately records that wave it is ALWAYS a better than digital. Digital is more precise becasue of its consistancy of the medium but by its very nature it is always a simulation. LP's have a significantly higher bandwidth than CD's and are far more sensitive. It is a physical process, the wave is propagated into the medium the reproduced back into sound waves. The only thing wrong with LP's is they are subject to physical ware. If you can afford it you could listen to a record only once and throw it away. Then you remove any limitations to the medium.
The best sound systems in the world are still using tubes, Mark Levinson No. 33 aside. Yes if you use some 96Khz DVD you might be able to beat LP's for bandwidth but then I could make an upgraded vinyal system too. Firewire is a good example of using analouge signals with a digital system to get a better bandwidth.
I was responding to JayBlalock's sig.
Bush: He's Liberal in all the wrong ways.
Bush: Steal and spend liberal.
i.e he steals formt he middle class to give to the rich while he pushes through radical legislation.
We could have had a gun that puts things in orbit if the US Govenrment hadn't had their collective heads up their asses. Now the South Africans have the best artilery in the world and we have shit. Gerald V. Bull was the man when it came to ballstics.
I have a "friend" who works for a "corporation" who was made to move a huge e-mail system from BSD to "another OS" becasue they "should eat there own dog food." He loved NT 3.51 becasue once it was ironed out with a tactical nuclear weapon it was STABLE. They are now onto 2000 but wouldn't be without the pressure to conform.
I like to say tha he's a "Steal and Spend Liberal."
For one of my last jobs I had to throw faggots on a dike. In this case it was a bundle of sticks on earthen mound. The sticks were to keep the cows from taking the most direct route to the water and eroding the dike. Just goes to show that sometimes words work for what they were meant for.
It also goes to show that when you get laid off from your tech job there's always a farmer who needs somone to wade through cow shit and poison oak for a louset $8 and hour.
p.s. Psychology studies and meta analysis have shown clearly that the most homophobic people are the most likely to be aroused by homo-erotica. You can learn some funny stuff with a tumescence monitor and some photos.
NT 3.5 on PowerPC or Alpha
Those heady days before they broke the whole point of NT (dividing the kernel form the hardware layer.) But before they could make a stable OS.
If the Space Elevator works we might be able to cut that cost by a huge margin. So all you nano-tech researchers quit reading /. and get back to work on long nanofibers!
It's analouge so you have a wave rather than a bit stream i.e. warmer sound, better seperation, and etc.
It think the original poster meant better than VHS.
p.s. Betamax lost becasue Sony wouldn't license the format to Porn. Sounds like the same argument from the Chinese...
More than this many families are now in the "two income trap" meaning they make enough to get by with both Mom and Pop working. So if ones jobs goes, you go from middle income to low income. Snap just like that.
Wait, I think I smell something... oh yeah tax cuts for the rich yeeeeeee-ha!
The chance of a discussion involving Bush being a facist and therefor compaired to a Nazi is always one due the the facts of history.
Goodwin's law is a funny thing though as I have seen it happen on everything from Microsoft posts to Rave posts. I think it happens becasue for us in post 20th centruty America Nazi=Satan and so the hotter people get under th collar the more likely they are to invoke the ultimate badness.
And another thing...
Who the fuck is this 'Evan Coyne Maloney' to criticize Walter Cronkite? That was a pretentious bit of editorializing if I have ever read it. With his jackass "out of focus" picture and his collar turned up.
Next time you try to make a point wipe the shit off your finger first.
Noam Chompsky's extensive analysis of the media indicated that it was very balanced in 'right' 'left' sense but whole unblanced twords capitalism. Not supprising becasue the media is a capitalist enterprise.
Walter Cronkite admited he was a liberal he did not say that the whole media was statisically slanted to the left.
Also using case studies is not proof of anything.
Ok you claim like many people that this was a gamble and I totally disagree. This is the most popular fiction trilogy of all time. That is a huge captive customer base. In addition Peter Jackson doesn't give a fuck about popular support for his movies. Hmmm lets think about his prior work shall we? Bad Taste (Most offensive movie ever) Dead Alive (Some highlights are a Zombie Priest fucking a Zombie woman to give birth to a Zombie baby and a giant slobbering motherly toothed vagina) Heavenly Creatures (a movie about not believing your own bullshit.) Meet the Febbles (a Muppet movie about a fly that eats shit and a family show that has a snuff porno ring in the basement.) Ok so from those simple examples can clearly see that New Line realized they were hiring a mad man. So I reject you argument with extreme prejudice.
Also he has been widely publicized that they gave Peter Jackson full control.
If you think that the Tao is "lousy pop-philosophy" you're smoking crack. A) its the oldest group of people who have continuously practiced the scientific method. B) it's the only philosophy or religion that can account for Quantum Mechanics.
I would say that anything that flows has the Tao. That's all the Tao is flow and direction without resistance. Unfortunately the Tao that can be written is not the real Tao so what I said is incomplete. That doesn't mean that something written cannot have the Tao. Also you might want to note the paradox and circular thinking are key to understanding the Tao. Zen Konans are the Japanese interpretation of Tao combined with Buddhist thought.
I also say that a masterwork is art that is fractal in nature. e.g. Jackson Pollok's paintings appear to be random but if you look each part is a map of the whole. Just like each cell in a living organism contains the plan for the whole. It is internal consistence. That is why Hayao Miyazaki is a master he can reduce a massive concept to a single image. Tolken achieves that regularly. PJ cannot bludgeon art into his own image. This is what happened when he screwed with the Ents, with the end of Helms Deep and with Faramir. He just plain fucked up. There was no need to change these things. He could have refrained from wrecking the characters without making the film longer or more marketable. Tolken marketed the characters and idea pretty well already. PJ thinks at best that he's gilding the lily, but what he really doing is breaking the flow.
The Halflife comment was meant to be funny and was in fact fitting. Resonance Cascade. Think about it in the context I am talking about. A single disharmony cascading down through the story creating resonance. Its what I'm talking about. Because I am willing to access metaphors outside of the fantasy realm but within the slashdot realm does not degrade my argument.
You say that PJ created a new river but you wrong. He tried to paint a river. But instead of accurately representing it in a different style he started to paint the river, got board and doodled in the corner because he didn't like the view. If you look at 100 paintings of Paris you can still tell its Paris whether its impressionist, realist, baroque or whatever. But PJ stopped accurately representing the image. This is Hubris. He is not making ART, he is reinterpreting someone else's art. That is technology. He has no muse. He lost the Tao. However you say it still the same concept. Art come from god (in the broadest and most inclusive sense of the word) technology comes from man.
I don't want a movie that is identical. I just want it to refrain from making continuity errors that are grievous and needless.
For the record I LOVED the first movie because he made changes that worked and had flow. That's why I hated this movie, it shows lost potential not mere stupidity or negligence. In this case it is worse to have loved and lost.
Um not really. At the point where Frodo is taken to Osiligoth in the movie Sauron hadn't let any of his army out of Mordor. What you are talkinga bout happens in the middle of the ROTK and what were are talking about is in late TTT. Also a woman slays the wrath not a hobbit.
Suck it Anonymous Coward bitch.
Becasue you're illterate, ignornat and a coward means that you skipped the poetry when you read the Clif notes in the first place.
You want singing? Listen to 'Lords of the Rhyme,' "The orcs smoke the shwag but we got the keif."
Ahhh but there is great debate if Tom was a Maiar or if he was in fact Manwe himself.
Correct me if I'm wrong but were the Wizards Maiar? I don't think so, clearly Saruman was of the Westerness but was not created by Illuvitar and did not exist prior to Melkor's fall. They seem to be men sent back to Middle Earth by Manwe to balance Sauron's power.
Meklor's 'way' was only a disharmony in the music of Illuvitar.
TTT sucked becasue Jackson didn't learn from Lucus. 'Make the 2nd movie end on a down note' to parapharse Randall from Clerks. Fordo should be dead and Sam alone in Mordor.
Quibble quiblle little child...
You could fit book 6 into about 30 minutes. Most of the meat of the 2nd half of the third book is geneology of the house of whatever. So moive 5 or "The Return of the King" might be 3 and a half hours. I do like the idea of M&P telling "There and Back Again"
But Glamdring the Foe Hammer better glow in the Great Goblin scene or I am going to pass boulder.
The women and children in the book were taken by the Eowen into the hills. Jackson clearly though he needed to add a little more dramatic tension to the scene so he had the women and kids cowering in helms deep.
Eowen gets to slay the king of the nine, no small feat.
But I think you missed the level of power that Sauron would have excersized if one of the Nine found the ring in Osgiliath. Minis Morgul is about 5 minutes away by Winged steed. So in 5 minutes all the Nine would have showed up an no power on Middle Earth would have saved Frodo. If the ring was detected that close to Morodor it would have been the end of the book. A. The orc in Minis Morgul would have come down out of the Morgul vale and marthced on Osgiliath, cutting off any way for Frodo and Sam to waltz up there and sneak past. Plus Sauron wouldn't have waited, his whole army would have attacked right then so army 1 comes from the north, army 2 is already on the move from the south and army 3 would have come directly from the East through Minis Morgul. There's no way out of that trap.
The thing about women is something of a cultrul artifact. How many women were fighting in WWI? Just becasue there are no women does mean this thing is sexist, the only women in the book are stong and brave. Just accept that gems are precious and rare and not to be gaudy sprinkles.
I loved the Fellowship of the Ring. It was internally consistant and the changes he made worked.
For example... you can reduce a story to one sentance. The MOIVE of The Fellowship of the Ring can be reduced to "The Ring tests the members of the company." The is what drives the moive. Each introduction of a major character and who they are is defined by this conflict. Good vs. Evil, Right vs. Wrong. Hence GOOD MOIVE. Two tumbs up three stars.
For example... The BOOK The Two Towers can be reduced to the sentance, "The meak recruit the strong." Merry and Pippen recruit Fangorn. Pippen recruits Denethor, Frodo recruits Smegol, and Sam and Frodo recruit Faramir.
When Jackson got it right in TTT is when he followed this. e.g. Smegol. Golumn Smegol is truly great in this movie. It is in fact the best story telling in the film. But when Jackson lost it with Faramir he forced the movie into a path fundamentally different form the book, e.g. the Nazgul at Ositligoth. He also lost it with the Ents, Merry and Pippen trick Fangorn into helping them. The meak do not trick the mighty, the good do not trick the good. Tolken relied on Merry and Pippens goodness to entice angorns friendship and in turn thier quickness inspired Fangorn to action. Same error when Eomer and Gandlaf save Helms deep, Emomer had one Platoon not an army. This logically fallicy is painful and looses one of the deep environmental undertones of the book. Why the Uriki are so evil is they are a Frankenstien Monster. They use technology to violate nature, this pisses of the Ents, natures servents and they go and kill em. Waking up to a forest and no Orcs is more bad ass then making 20 guys morph into 2000.
Also you clearly don't get the death treat... F34nor = Feanor fairest of those who saw the light of the two tress of the Valinor. Ever wonder why the elves were so sad? Well its becasue Feanor swore to recove the Simirils from Melkor (Sauron's God and master) and slew the elves who wouldn't give him and his follwers the boats. This is why the high elves are in middle earth becasue they follow Feanor back across the sea to Middle Earth to war against Melkor for the Simirils. So it was a Joke. Also the whole fiore up the lawn mower and KICK ASS FOR THE LORD was a comment of Dead Alive, Jacksons zombie movie. I like Peter Jackson I like his movies, he just lost the Tao.
This is /. right?
Anyway what do you expect, Jackson is doing exactly what he warned people not to do when he made Heavenly Creatures. He has come to believe his own lie more than reality.
Basically when Jackson made this movie he entered into a sacred covenant with the millions of people who know and love Tolken. So far the changes he has made for good reasons, e.g. Tom B. etc. were fine because he kept some sort of foot on the ideological floor of the world he was working in. The problems arise when he does things for no reason, or bad reasons e.g. Faramir. These changes create what I will call a resonance cascade (Halflife.) Basically once you've shit in your own well water your fucked. Changes made in the middle with no regard for the end cause people who can reduce the whole to a singularity great pain. If you are dumbass and cannot conceive of the whole then your fine, you remain happily awed by the pretty colors, if on the hand you can see the whole in each part then those mistakes break the whole.
See if Tolken was making a movie of The Book of Mormon this would all be fine. You can make changes to a idea and make it work if the idea isn't internally consistent. Unfortunately for Jackson he opened Pandora's box by makes the changes, he broke the Tao of the Lord of the Rings. Tolken was a true master in every sense of the word. He was a master of language, e.g. he can create beauty and strength in one form. He was a master of men, e.g. he was the head of the classics dept. at one of the best Universities in the world. And he was a master of story telling across all levels e.g. The Christmas Letters for Kids, The Hobbit for young adults, The Lord of the Rings for adults, and what became the Simirilion for Adults, other Masters and Academics. I would say that as a true master Tolken had the Tao. Everyone who has read and love the Lord of the Rings knows this, it hurts to interrupt the flow, even to put the book down because it has the Tao. By dropping boulders of shit in the flow Jackson created eddies that disrupt the harmony the Tolken created. Now don't get me wrong I support Jackson's creative freedom but outside of this that are explicit. No one knows what Moria looked like and I say Jackson did a damn good job with it. In fact Jackson did a damn good job with ALL the minutia but he lost the forest for the leaves. He lost the Tao.