Lord of the Rings: Did PJ lose the plot?

[Vocenoctum]

I think you have them confused with the ruffians.

Besides, the Tooks and Brandybucks are about the closest thing to a nobility the Hobbits had. After all the fighting they did to save the world, they're not going to take crap from a bunch of low-lifes who are getting their jollies by kicking around Hobbits.
And besides, as Pippin says, as a knight of Gondor, he is more or less a representative of the king. They're more like Federal marshals coming into a Wild West town to clean out bandits or something.

What I was refering to was at the start, they find the gate locked at night, and are told it's the new law or whatever. They then enter anyway, and scare off the other hobbits. They completely walk over the hobbit sherifs with an air of superiority, as now Hobbit Law means nothing to them.

Because there's a supernatural element to it, thing of Shelob as sort of a half-fiend huge monstrous spider or something.

I can see it, but I think the morgul blade and the whole "Frodo of the Nine Fingers" stuff was enough.

 

[barsoomcore]

I think the morgul blade and the whole "Frodo of the Nine Fingers" stuff was enough.

Presumably, so did Frodo.

 

[Camarath]

It's like Harold Bloom says about Hamlet: interpretations of the work do not in any way limit the work. They merely reveal the limitations of the interpreter.

I hope you don't mind me pulling this quote from the A Critique of the LotR BOOKS thread. I thought it was a very good quote and might perhapse help me better illustrate the what is in my opinion the difference between the books and the movies. I have seen quite a few versions of Hamlet some of which I thought were good and some I thought were bad. What makes a particular versions of Hamlet either good or bad usally has little to do with how the version changed the story but much to do with how the story is presented. I feel that the presentation of the story was very different in the books and in the movies. I personally would have preferred that the movies had strayed farther from the story of the book if they had stayed closer to the presentation and feel of the books.