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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kolvar" data-source="post: 1894087" data-attributes="member: 1423">Some comments:- Tolkien was a great fan of Beowulf (I think he did a translation or retelling of it)- Gimli (the joke) and Eomer (becoming some byproduct) clearly got the chaft (How I miss scenes like: "And when all Armies of Mordor lie between us...", sniff, goes right to my heart)-  I hate the elves at Helms Deep (spoils the whole movie for me (apart from Aragorn's "death"))- As part of a movie that got a whole, gigantig mega-battle and the destruction of the arch-enemy, the scouring would not have worked, because, regardless of how dramtic it would have been done, the audience would simply have been annoyed by yet another battle on a smaler scope. There where enough people, who where ennoyed by the ending as is, because it stretched the movie beyond what they were used as the ending of normal movies. RotK is not a horror-movie that needs a last appearance of Freddy or Jason to shock the audience (sorry, if this sounds stupid - I know, that it is not the same)- The worst part of RotK was the attack of the ghost-army, because it looked like a giagantic blob and made the sacifices of the Rohirim useless. "Hey, there is an army that is several times larger than our and they have Mumakil. But we charge nonetheless." "Oops, how many Rohirim have died? sorry, why did you not wait, till my army of invincible ghosts did the job."GRRRR. The Corsair-ships filled with people, that fight and die would have been better. Than we could have had the Witch-king on horse at the gate and the descruction of the gates would have been the anti-climax of the seige (as it should have been).- About the interpretation of Tolkiens work: it is the right of every person to interpret a book as he sees fit. That is the beauty of books. But as soon as a book is adapted to the screen, the director's/ screenwriter's vision is broadcasted and becomes one of the most imporant ones (especially if there is only one worthwhile movie at the moment (and I do think, that there will be a tv-adaptation (like dune - more or less uninspired but truer to the book) and more movies))). Therefore the director has to face the criticism as anyone who gives an interpretation of something, and even more so, because he forces us to comply to his interpretation, if we are to like his work (more or less). (and why did I write this????)</blockquote>

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