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Hot take: Only the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings should be viewed as canonical Middle-Earth books
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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8824528" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>I wouldn't go that far... but in specific cases I agree. Boromir in particular is handled so much better in the movies -- he's far more sympathetic and well fleshed out, so that his death scene is a gut punch. In the book he's just an irritating blowhard and his death scene is more or less foreordained.</p><p></p><p>I also appreciate Aragorn being more human and wrestling more with self-doubt. Giving some screen time to Aragorn and Arwen's romance is absolutely an improvement (even if I'm not a hundred percent down with the details). And while Bombadil is entertaining, he really doesn't belong in LotR. He'd fit much better in the Hobbit, where "spend a chapter interacting with random wacky forest dude who has no connection to anything" is par for the course.</p><p></p><p>The book has far more depth and internal consistency, and not all the character changes turned out as well as Boromir. And Theoden's goatee hurts my soul. But the movies were still splendidly done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8824528, member: 58197"] I wouldn't go that far... but in specific cases I agree. Boromir in particular is handled so much better in the movies -- he's far more sympathetic and well fleshed out, so that his death scene is a gut punch. In the book he's just an irritating blowhard and his death scene is more or less foreordained. I also appreciate Aragorn being more human and wrestling more with self-doubt. Giving some screen time to Aragorn and Arwen's romance is absolutely an improvement (even if I'm not a hundred percent down with the details). And while Bombadil is entertaining, he really doesn't belong in LotR. He'd fit much better in the Hobbit, where "spend a chapter interacting with random wacky forest dude who has no connection to anything" is par for the course. The book has far more depth and internal consistency, and not all the character changes turned out as well as Boromir. And Theoden's goatee hurts my soul. But the movies were still splendidly done. [/QUOTE]
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