Two Towers Trailer Released.....Impressions?

bropous · 05-13-2002, 08:01 PM

Good points, Ferrous One, and this again brings me back to my disagreement with the folks who slam PJ for variations from the Master's story.

I agree that a lot of the things PJ has "added" were simply activities which did occur, albeit "off-screen". There are exceptions, such as Arwen blah blah blah, but I can forgive PJ telling the story a bit differently to try to reach a broader audience.

Haven't any of you had the problem of trying to get someone to read the books, only to have them report later, "the beginning is so slow!"? PJ just jazzed it up a bit, but look at the incredible level of detail he gives us in painting Tolkien's Middle-Earth!

I do believe a lot of the above criticism is unjust.

Thanks, olsonm!

05-13-2002, 08:01 PM	#11
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Good points, Ferrous One, and this again brings me back to my disagreement with the folks who slam PJ for variations from the Master's story. I agree that a lot of the things PJ has "added" were simply activities which did occur, albeit "off-screen". There are exceptions, such as Arwen blah blah blah, but I can forgive PJ telling the story a bit differently to try to reach a broader audience. Haven't any of you had the problem of trying to get someone to read the books, only to have them report later, "the beginning is so slow!"? PJ just jazzed it up a bit, but look at the incredible level of detail he gives us in painting Tolkien's Middle-Earth! I do believe a lot of the above criticism is unjust. Thanks, olsonm! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

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