[JenB]

So, carton, you're continuing your trend of defending those whom everyone else despises? This seems like taking it a little too far, though - but again, I'm a partisan. Thanks for the compliment; I just wish I knew more about LotR than anyone else I know.

2JM, what you said, exactly. Look at the Bakshi and tell me it was easy to adapt LotR as well as Jackson did. Now find me the rabid ABM book fans who would tear the screenwriters limb from limb if it varied too far from their imagined ideal. Obviously LotR was the harder screenplay to adapt, after all, ABM is set in the real world, and there are no Elves, Dwarves, or Hobbits. Actually that's most of the problem I have with it, right there....

[2Jedismom]

Obviously LotR was the harder screenplay to adapt, after all, ABM is set in the real world, and there are no Elves, Dwarves, or Hobbits. Actually that's most of the problem I have with it, right there....

And although we really knew it could happen, we were hoping it wouldn't even though none of us give a ring-tailed toot what the "Academy" thinks. It still smarts.

[Restorer]

after all, ABM is set in the real world, and there are no Elves, Dwarves, or Hobbits

Not all of it was as real world as you might think. Goodly chunks of it take place pretty much just in his mind. N

[carton253]

Well, best adapted screenplay is not about the book, it's about the screenplay that comes from the book. Now, I would have voted for A Beautiful Mind in this category because the adapter did a marvelous job. But, I do think that the Lord of the Rings did deserve the Best Picture and the Best Director.

And you do know more about these books than anyone I know and it is always fun to read your posts because I know I'm about to learn something.