My Big Beef With the LOTR movies

[David Howery]

I think this is really something that can be attributed to Tolkien. They're even more badass in the book. It comes from Tolkien's love of Anglo-Saxon culture, which was a big influence on the Rohirrim, they're basically like Beowulf on horses. PJ had to leave some of that in so as to avoid completely butchering the story. But the movie Rohirrim come off as wimps compared to their counterparts in the book.

Wimps?! For Christ's sake, they charge 200,000 orcs at the Pelennor and rout them, and then take on a bunch of gigantic elephants hand to hand, getting stomped and gored in the process! How much more manly do you want them to be?