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Re: "What was wrong with the original story..."

Posted by KeithC (A) on December 27, 2002 at 11:55:51

In Reply to: "What was wrong with the original story..." posted by Audiophilander on December 26, 2002 at 22:21:56:

Aragorn shouldn't be at the battle of Helm's Deep - his journey along the Path's of the Dead leads to the capure of the Mordor fleet, and consequently the relief of the seige of Gondor.

Faramir's release of Frodo is instrumental in his father's sending him out to get wounded, and his father's subsequent suicide.

Factionalism between Saruman's orcs and those of Mordor during the run/chase highlights agenda differences within the enemy alliance.

Less mawkish additions w.r.t. Aragorn and Arwen - presumably a romantic story line is mandatory - would enable the book to finish at the correct place.

The whole Rohan scene is completely re-written, even Grima is caricatured - he's supposed to be a smoothy, not the runner up in a Boris Karloff look-alike contest.

I'm not an habitual filmgoer - I went to see TLOTR as one who has been re-reading the books since the mid 60s - so I'm not really one to judge the overall quality of the film, but overall the plot of TTT has been dumbed down. I fail to see why a more faithfull screen play would not have been possible.

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