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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 471241" data-attributes="member: 151">In a perfect world, that would have been nice, I agree.  I'm curious, Colonel, how do you rate the BBC radio production?  There are some things I think it does much better, such as Gimli's song about Khazad-dum, which seemed hollow to me on the page, but haunting and introspective when sung in verse.  I personally would be afraid of staying too faithful to the written word.  My first impression of the 1st Harry Potter movie was that it was just that...too faithful.  And yet, it didn't seem quite right.  Later watchings softenend my opinion, and I view the film in a better light than my initial screening...but I still think that Columbus should have taken more liberties to accomodate the differences between written word and visual presentation.There are some images in the movie that convey meaning to me as well as paragraphs of text.  The visual of the ring dropping to the floor with a heavy thud and landing without a bounce (as if possessed of much greater weight) is a powerful image.  The music, sound and visual all combine to create a metaphor I liked.  This is where I think the movie excelled.  Covering much of the lore and myth was something I thought the BBC did better, as they had more time to bother explaining about Caradhras the Cruel, as Gimli calls it.   Of course, I don't always think that Tolkien's pacing was that good in the books, but that's another story.</blockquote>

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