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<blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5757906" data-attributes="member: 5202"><p>Well they apparently worked something out, b/c PJ has said the White Council is involved and that certainly appears to be Gandalf sneaking around in Sauron's Mirkwood fortress. They don't have the rights to make a film of say, Unfinished Tales, but getting the story where Gandalf and Thorin met in the Blue Mountains prior to the Unexpected Party to help tie things better would have likely been pretty easy. I don't recall Christopher Tolkien hating what was done w/LOTR after all.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The next Batman is supposed to take place 10 years after TDK. So far it looks like Catwoman could be w/the League of Shadows or an independent, buts he seems to have the Occupy Wall Street viewpoint down pat.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Adding Aragorn being lost over that cliff for a day or 2 was pretty useless. People either loved or hated super skater slaying elf Legolas during the ROTK fights against the Haradrim. Gimli being used as comedic value didn't really fit his character, but I guess he wanted to spread it out from almost entirely Merry and Pippin.</p><p></p><p>His logic in leaving out Bombadil makes perfect sense. He's just spent a half hour creating a deep fear and distrust of the ring, that it is a very dark thing, putting it on will let Sauron know where you are, etc. In the books Bombadil shows up and saves them from Old Man Willow, then at his house can put it on w/o disappearing or being affected, makes it disappear. It would have ruined the mood entirely. Of course, not having Bombadil meant leaving out the Barrow Wights too. </p><p></p><p>I wish teh Scourging of the Shire had been left in, but considering people already complained about 4 or 5 possible end points before the actual ending, adding what would be another 20 or 30 minutes of film time at the end would have stretched it out quite a bit. It's great and it does show how the hobbits have become very different people in their year or so they were away, plus it was an allegory for how England was being changed by industrialization and war. So much of the countryside different, so many of his friends gone</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SSquirrel, post: 5757906, member: 5202"] Well they apparently worked something out, b/c PJ has said the White Council is involved and that certainly appears to be Gandalf sneaking around in Sauron's Mirkwood fortress. They don't have the rights to make a film of say, Unfinished Tales, but getting the story where Gandalf and Thorin met in the Blue Mountains prior to the Unexpected Party to help tie things better would have likely been pretty easy. I don't recall Christopher Tolkien hating what was done w/LOTR after all. The next Batman is supposed to take place 10 years after TDK. So far it looks like Catwoman could be w/the League of Shadows or an independent, buts he seems to have the Occupy Wall Street viewpoint down pat. Adding Aragorn being lost over that cliff for a day or 2 was pretty useless. People either loved or hated super skater slaying elf Legolas during the ROTK fights against the Haradrim. Gimli being used as comedic value didn't really fit his character, but I guess he wanted to spread it out from almost entirely Merry and Pippin. His logic in leaving out Bombadil makes perfect sense. He's just spent a half hour creating a deep fear and distrust of the ring, that it is a very dark thing, putting it on will let Sauron know where you are, etc. In the books Bombadil shows up and saves them from Old Man Willow, then at his house can put it on w/o disappearing or being affected, makes it disappear. It would have ruined the mood entirely. Of course, not having Bombadil meant leaving out the Barrow Wights too. I wish teh Scourging of the Shire had been left in, but considering people already complained about 4 or 5 possible end points before the actual ending, adding what would be another 20 or 30 minutes of film time at the end would have stretched it out quite a bit. It's great and it does show how the hobbits have become very different people in their year or so they were away, plus it was an allegory for how England was being changed by industrialization and war. So much of the countryside different, so many of his friends gone [/QUOTE]
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