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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1233351" data-attributes="member: 5171">JRRNeiklot: All I have to offer is my own opinion, just as all you have to offer is yours.  As long as we both realize that that's all it is, we can all get along just peachy.My opinion is that leaving everything as it was would have slowed the movie down and made for some fairly flat characters.  I'm not saying that they're flat in the book, but that certain elements of them would not have translated well to the screen -- if only because on the screen, you can't stop the for half a page and give the viewer direct exposition on what this all means.  On the screen, character is defined by action, and in order to present a more consistent message, PJ made the decision to change things.I know it offends you, because you are, from what I understand, a purist.  You would have loved it if everything in the book was included in the movie, am I right?  Every line as it was, every action in place, nothing added, nothing removed.  Is this correct?  This is not a leading question.  I honestly want to know.It's fine for you to say that you would have loved a movie like that.  I, personally, would have been bored by it, I suspect -- it would most likely have been far too long, and it would have felt dragged-out and unwieldy and flat in many areas.So, you're a movie producer, trying to make a great movie out of a series of books that you love.  You are faced with a question: Do you make changes as you feel it necessary, knowing that you might irk some purists, or do you keep it utterly faithful to the book, creating a movie that, most likely, only the purists would love?PJ chose the former.  From a marketing perspective, it was the right choice -- many people saw the movie who never read the book.  From an artistic perspective, it was the right choice in my opinion -- I'd rather see a movie that does its best to be a movie, not a movie that does its best to be a line-by-line retread of a book that I could just go read instead.  From the purity-of-Tolkien perspective, it was the wrong choice.</blockquote>

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