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Date: 2003-12-18 14:42:33

Comment:

Hey, I agree. You can't be a Tolkien Fascist here. The books are masterpieces, but there is just too much detail in them for them to be translated accurately onto the screen. If that's what you wanted, you shouldn't have gone to see the movies. Think of it this way - could you have done it any better? The simple answer, mate, is NO. There's no way those movies could have been made any better than they were, and they've generated a load of interest in the actual books since their release as well. They might not stick as closely to canon as we'd like (with, notably, with Aragorn/Arwen thread) but such deviations are needed for a cinematic audience, some of whom will not have the time or patience to ever read the books at all. The films are works of art, and in my opinion, they stand alone as absolute prodigies. Nothing can beat them. They mark the turning point in cinematography of the twenty-first century. The character of Gollum is proof enough of that. See them for what they are, not for what you wish they could have been.