The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim producer Philippa Boyens attempted to defend her desecration of Tolkien’s lore in the film by claiming she and the people who worked on the film “can’t ruin” Tolkien’s books.Fandom Pulse is a reader-supported publication.
100000% correct about the damage done by Jackson's films. I saw each of them the day they were released in theaters but have not watched them since despite having read LOTR at least 50 times over the years(to say I'm a LOTR fanatic is understating my love of these books). Jackson completely destroyed Faramir's character by having him choose to take the ring from Frodo thus negating the differences between Faramir and Boromir, the battle between Gandalf and Sauruman was just a disgrace, and Jackson made Frodo into nothing more than a whiny bitch of a hobbit. Jackson also did not include the man who was responsible for the death of the Witch King during the Battle of the Pellenor Fields, Tom Bombadil. How? Bombadil, during his rescue of the hobbits from the Barrow Wights, gives Merry a sword he found in the barrows, the same sword that Merry uses to pierce the hauberk of the Witch King's knee thus allowing Eowyn to cut his head off. People always dismiss the character of Bombadil as childish but he plays a very significant role in the downfall of Sauron.
The only 2 characters who, IMO, actually represented Tolkien's characters were Gandalf, Gollum, and Sam, everyone else was just awful(especially Orlando Bloom as Legolas, ugh, he was epically awful in all the movies). I typically love Viggo Mortenson's acting but he had zero charisma as Aragorn, felt he was almost as whiny and useless as Frodo was.
How is it possible that there has been such a failure of succession?
You can, and you did. Thanks for ruining another IP, lady.
100000% correct about the damage done by Jackson's films. I saw each of them the day they were released in theaters but have not watched them since despite having read LOTR at least 50 times over the years(to say I'm a LOTR fanatic is understating my love of these books). Jackson completely destroyed Faramir's character by having him choose to take the ring from Frodo thus negating the differences between Faramir and Boromir, the battle between Gandalf and Sauruman was just a disgrace, and Jackson made Frodo into nothing more than a whiny bitch of a hobbit. Jackson also did not include the man who was responsible for the death of the Witch King during the Battle of the Pellenor Fields, Tom Bombadil. How? Bombadil, during his rescue of the hobbits from the Barrow Wights, gives Merry a sword he found in the barrows, the same sword that Merry uses to pierce the hauberk of the Witch King's knee thus allowing Eowyn to cut his head off. People always dismiss the character of Bombadil as childish but he plays a very significant role in the downfall of Sauron.
That was a fantastic article, thanks for the link.
The only 2 characters who, IMO, actually represented Tolkien's characters were Gandalf, Gollum, and Sam, everyone else was just awful(especially Orlando Bloom as Legolas, ugh, he was epically awful in all the movies). I typically love Viggo Mortenson's acting but he had zero charisma as Aragorn, felt he was almost as whiny and useless as Frodo was.