Movies injustice to the book

yes. great post shadowy, and pippintook. Exactly what i thought 🙂 I know a lot of people who complained about the length of the movie already. And like was said already, the fans would have enjoyed it, but they only make up a small portion of the movie-goers. (except on opening night 🙂 those are like all Fans 🙂 ) and the movies were made to appeal to them too. SO, while it may be dissapointing to us that some stuff was left out, you should overlook that and enojoy thre of the best films ever 🙂 i too wish the scourging was in there (and countless other stuff, like tom) but i like the movies for the movies, and the books for the books. And, there's noting you can do about it now 🙂

Melian?

Thank you for the wide knowledge shadowy blue, your insight is quite welcome. For the movie goer's these were the three greatest movies i ever viewed. My anger is only based on how much better the movie could have been ended with these details in tact.

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It could have been better, it could not have. We'll never know. But at least we know that the movie still ended up amazing without it. 🙂

I thought that the only injustice was their treatment of the fall of Sauron at the end of the Second Age. They made it into a silly accident rather than Tolkein's account.

I think they improved upon the book in some ways though. The undead army for instance was better handled.

As to Saruman - well, their account worked for the story, but yes, those who read the book do know that there's more.

I agree that the scouring of the Shire would have been a better ending than them looking wistfully at each other though.
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Hm, in my opinion the Dead Army was the most injustice thing 😄

Mainly their appearance... colour was horrible. Why oh why are dead people / ghosts that still look human always fluorescent green?? Any especially here - why GREEN when they are called "the Grey Host"??? 😠

I also didnt like the version in the PC game when Aragorn had to fight the Dead People to make them follow him.

The undead army was kinda cheesy in how the just flew though the enemy. The whole battle lasted like two days and they ended it in like 20 seconds lol. 😆

Well they had to make the battle more dramatic for the screen Raven.

And the game of Fellowship of the Ring was absurd - On the Weathertop level it depicted the Nazgul attacking Aragorn in preference to Frodo, EVEN when Frodo had the Ring on! 🤪

*shrugs* Isn't there supposed to be a scene about how Legolas describe the um....the Army of the Dead upon the hills with their flags waving high in the RotK: EE?

and in the FOTR game where you have to fight a nazgul at the end to 'save sam'. I thought that was really messed up 😛

hmm... bump..

Originally posted by Raventheonly
The undead army was kinda cheesy in how the just flew though the enemy. The whole battle lasted like two days and they ended it in like 20 seconds lol. 😆

Yeah, now that this has been bumped, I will respond... I think the EE will elaborate on this... The battle scene in the TE was already pretty long, so they must have just made this quick. They also wanted to really highlight how strong the Army of the Dead really was. I can't wait till the EE to see what they do here...

Originally posted by R@ven
🙁 The movie totally ignores the story of after the destruction of the ring. The scouring of the shire and most of all, the DEATH of Saruman.
The movie also ignores the fact that there is more than two Wizards in all of middle earth! A whole wizards counsel isn't even mentioned.
i understand Tom's non-existence but the death of a character is rather far.

true but after seeing fotr you must have known that after frodo saw the burning of the shire that p.j wasnt going to put it in, but i totaly agree with you the scoring of the shire was a gret part of the books.

wow... this is ancient hstory... this was my first post ever lol!!!