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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5638337" data-attributes="member: 8835">I dunno.  The Tom Bombadil section of the book sucked.  I applaud its lack in the film.  I'm just not sophisticated enough to see its merit.I think the excuse for deviation from the printed work is whether the scene works as written in a visual format.  I reckon there's some truth to that.True blood season 2 deviated quite a bit from the book (per my wife who's read them all).  But the book focussed significantly on Sookie.  So the ensemble cast of actors would have been unemployed that season.  So the show did a lot of splitting back and forth for Sookie's story and the rest of the town.  That was probably a good idea for the show.Game of Thrones, which I just started has the same 2 first scenes.  But the dialog is a little different.  And there are other differences in the scenes.  I suspect part of it is, since a book is just text, they tend to rely on description and dialog.  Whereas film can just show some action to convey the same message.  So the divergence begins.</blockquote>