In a message dated 12/2/2003 12:00:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Now they've got to spend a good bit of time finishing book two in movie > three and I'm sure they'll have to axe a bunch of stuff out of that to > make it short enough. No Scouring of the Shire, I'll bet, or if it's > there it will be severely truncated. > > If I had the patience to watch it again I could probably > write a much > longer and more specific rant, but you get the idea. > > Stow rant mode... I actually think that axing much of the stuff in book 3 after the ring is destroyed was poor. Almost half of the book was therefore an anti-climax. The dire things happening to the shire seemed artificial, an anti-industrial rant that made it clear to me where Tolkein's sympathies lay. I don't agree with the view that a bucolic agrarian culture is pure and an industrial culture is bad. The pre-industrial societies were long on inequality routine cruelty and short on democracy fairness and hope. Tolkien's view was a fantasy and a nasty one at that. Most of this was not overt in the books so I could ignore this but I will not be unhappy to see some of this stuff disappear from the film. I thought TT was great and the extended version even better. I am not believer in absolute fealty to the source in any case so I took the movies on their own merit _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
