As a Tolkien fan, I have mixed feelings about Jackson’s adaptation of LOTR. It was good, but I wasn’t thrilled with some of his omissions and changes to the story. Having read many of JRRT’s published letters in which he lambastes things like poor translations and illustrations that were inconsistent with his vision, I think that the author would likely have hated Jackson’s films.
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As a Tolkien fan, I have mixed feelings about Jackson’s adaptation of LOTR. It was good, but I wasn’t thrilled with some of his omissions and changes to the story. Having read many of JRRT’s published letters in which he lambastes things like poor translations and illustrations that were inconsistent with his vision, I think that the author would likely have hated Jackson’s films.
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I agree. I saw them all in the theater and enjoyed them at the time. I think the visuals are brilliant, but they were playing one of the movies on TV the other day and on reflection I realized that while I was dazzled by the production when I saw them in the theater, I felt that they hit the wrong tone with a lot of the characters and saw no need for many of the changes which, I think take away from Tolkiens amazing saga. For example, the way Faramir is portrayed grated on me. In the book he was probably the most noble character of them all.In the movie hecomes off like a jerk. I knew that compromises would need to be made to make a movie of the trilogy, but I think there were too many changes made for no damn reason at all which worked against the story. Just my NSHO.