Otakuma575 t1_iyckzvj wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:56 AM

Reply to comment by cereal_killerxx in Someone explain me why LOTR movies are so highly regarded by BenefitPale

Each entry would have to be six movies each to be anywhere near the books... They cut entire plot lines.

cereal_killerxx t1_iyclj6n wrote on November 30, 2022 at 12:02 PM

They didn't cut out that much. Tom Bombadil and a few other unnecessary things.

Otakuma575 t1_iycm0vc wrote on November 30, 2022 at 12:07 PM

There's so much more than that, lol. The Barrow Downs, the wild men that Aragorn recruited, about 30 years of stuff in the Shire, meeting the elves in the woods, pretty much all of Aragorn's plot is wrong ( he has Narsil from the beginning, he's supposed to be much older, and he doesn't even use the Palantir to challenge Sauron, etc) the other rangers and the Swan Knights are absent... It's a very long and detailed list of inaccuracies and cut jobs.

BenefitPale OP t1_iycla1x wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:59 AM

So like did they rush the movies. Should they've split into more movies is what are you saying?

Otakuma575 t1_iyclnl3 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 12:03 PM

They did an OK job streamlining the main story for film, but most of the side arcs are completely missing and they made some weird changes with the characters (i.e Frodo is in his 50's in the books, not early 20's). Honestly they did a worse job with The Hobbit, they made a short book into three movies and somehow still missed half the book.

WhyWorryAboutThat t1_iycy0l5 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 2:01 PM

Book fans always have scenes they wish were kept in and which scenes they want varies, but to give you an idea of just how much they cut for the films, in the books Sam and Frodo spend a week at the house of that farmer, who is just a scythe waving above the crops in the movie.