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<blockquote data-quote="KearaMedici" data-source="post: 369890" data-attributes="member: 918">In reply to the discussions of Sam, Merry and Pippin's stupidity in lighting a fire on Weathertop in the film, it is only what happened in the book...&quot;Down in the lowest sheltered corner of the dell they (Frodo,Sam,Merry, Pippin AND Strider) lit a fire, and prepared a meal.&quot;and later :&quot;As night fell and the light of the fire began to shine out brightly he (Strider) began to tell them tales to keep their minds from fear&quot;Not much earlier there is a passage discussing the fact that the Black Riders cannot actually see (though their steeds can) and of course they are repelled by fire as a manifestation of nature, so either could explain why Strider thought it okay to light a fire (albeit in a more hidden place than the movie, which could have been on the opposite side of the hill to the road?)So in essence the film does not really deviate too far from the book...Also in Moria (direct quote) :Gandalf : &quot;A Balrog. Now I understand. What evil fortune! And I am already weary!&quot;This pretty much says that Gandalf didn't know that Durin's Bane was a Balrog. Perhaps no-one did since any who saw it may have been annihilated, or perhaps the dwarves, as such an insular race, did not tell outsiders of the beast that brought the jewel of their labours into darkness.Next :The 'ham-fisted' procession of the Fellowship. I just saw some of Saving Private Ryan, which has two similar scenes - if it's good enough for Speilberg, then why not PJ ? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="KearaMedici, post: 369890, member: 918"] In reply to the discussions of Sam, Merry and Pippin's stupidity in lighting a fire on Weathertop in the film, it is only what happened in the book... "Down in the lowest sheltered corner of the dell they (Frodo,Sam,Merry, Pippin AND Strider) lit a fire, and prepared a meal." and later : "As night fell and the light of the fire began to shine out brightly he (Strider) began to tell them tales to keep their minds from fear" Not much earlier there is a passage discussing the fact that the Black Riders cannot actually see (though their steeds can) and of course they are repelled by fire as a manifestation of nature, so either could explain why Strider thought it okay to light a fire (albeit in a more hidden place than the movie, which could have been on the opposite side of the hill to the road?) So in essence the film does not really deviate too far from the book... Also in Moria (direct quote) : Gandalf : "A Balrog. Now I understand. What evil fortune! And I am already weary!" This pretty much says that Gandalf didn't know that Durin's Bane was a Balrog. Perhaps no-one did since any who saw it may have been annihilated, or perhaps the dwarves, as such an insular race, did not tell outsiders of the beast that brought the jewel of their labours into darkness. Next : The 'ham-fisted' procession of the Fellowship. I just saw some of Saving Private Ryan, which has two similar scenes - if it's good enough for Speilberg, then why not PJ ? ;) [/QUOTE]

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