Nitpicker's Guide To The LOTR Movie Trilogy

[Encryptic]

Just like the title says. This guy (read: hardcore LOTR purist) spent God knows how long listing all the deviations between the movies and the books. The books are good, but there's a lot that would have sucked if it was in the movie, Tom Bombadil being a prime example. Not to mention, the sheer impossibility of translating the complete books into a format not exceeding 3 1/2 hours.

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[Wuffsunie]

Some people just have WAY too much free time on their hands.

 

[Electric Amish]

I'll have to disagree with the sucking of Tom Bombadil because that also brings in the Barrow Downs as well.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
I'll have to disagree with the sucking of Tom Bombadil because that also brings in the Barrow Downs as well.

and the reason why the hobbit's sword was able to harm the witch king of angmar

 

[Electric Amish]

HAHA!!

They completely leave out the purchasing of a house in Buckland by Frodo.

They also leave out the confrontation in Bree with that guy (I can't remember the name) and the purchasing of Bill the horse.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
HAHA!!

They completely leave out the purchasing of a house in Buckland by Frodo.

They also leave out the confrontation in Bree with that guy (I can't remember the name) and the purchasing of Bill the horse.

Heh, now that you mention it, that's true. Wasn't that guy named Bill also?

The Barrowdowns part could've been in there, but I imagine it probably would have eaten up even more time to work it in. Also, Tom Bombadil probably would have made no sense to most of the people (i.e. non-LOTR fans) watching the movie, though. A weird guy dancing around singing songs?

 

[Tom]

Translation of books to movies are not intended to replicate the book, the intention is to make a good movies based on elements from the book.

I think the LOTR movies are suberb examples of adapting books to movies. Watch some of the extra features that come with the DVD versions for some insights into the difficulties entailed and the decisions made.