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<blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 541145" data-attributes="member: 4">And this of course is why making a film of LotR is such a challenge.&nbsp; You literally can't do it all.&nbsp; So you must pick and choose.&nbsp; You decide to simplify Merry &amp; Pippin's relationship/interaction with Treebeard, showing less of them in film 2 and saving them for more screen time in film 3.&nbsp; You decide to use the Faramir encounter not to showcase the Faramir of the book but instead to set up events for film 3 (Frodo's capture and the subsequent Nazgul attack will lead Sauron to believe the ring is on its way to Minas Tirith).&nbsp; You dig the Arwen stuff out of the appendix because it makes Aragorn's journey just that much more meaningful and it also addresses the issues of the passing of the elves.&nbsp; Fortunately for me, I don't go into the theater thinking I can have it all --- I go in thinking I'm going to see something pretty darned close.&nbsp; When I think of all of the terrible choices that could have been made (&quot;let's turn Legolas into a girl elf&quot; or &quot;let's turn Merry into a girl hobbit&quot; or &quot;let's try to squeeze these 3 books into one 2-hour movie&quot;) I feel grateful that such love, such care, such devotion have been poured into this trilogy.&nbsp; I just can't wait to see it all pay off in film 3. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="EricNoah, post: 541145, member: 4"] And this of course is why making a film of LotR is such a challenge. You literally can't do it all. So you must pick and choose. You decide to simplify Merry & Pippin's relationship/interaction with Treebeard, showing less of them in film 2 and saving them for more screen time in film 3. You decide to use the Faramir encounter not to showcase the Faramir of the book but instead to set up events for film 3 (Frodo's capture and the subsequent Nazgul attack will lead Sauron to believe the ring is on its way to Minas Tirith). You dig the Arwen stuff out of the appendix because it makes Aragorn's journey just that much more meaningful and it also addresses the issues of the passing of the elves. Fortunately for me, I don't go into the theater thinking I can have it all --- I go in thinking I'm going to see something pretty darned close. When I think of all of the terrible choices that could have been made ("let's turn Legolas into a girl elf" or "let's turn Merry into a girl hobbit" or "let's try to squeeze these 3 books into one 2-hour movie") I feel grateful that such love, such care, such devotion have been poured into this trilogy. I just can't wait to see it all pay off in film 3. :) [/QUOTE]

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