lord of the rings gollum bites frodo's finger

When you copy a book as slavishly as this it is almost unforgivable to change the piece at Mount Doom as Jackson and his colleages did. This I can forgive and even welcome, most books don't make good films and vica-verca, without adaptions. When you make a film adaption of a book it's usually customary to make a few changes in the deatails and even the emphasis of different parts. Spoilers folks, don't read unless you know either the book or the film. First it was Theoden that tried to talk Aragorn out of taking that path, elrond didn't show up AT ALL, elrond spoon feeds Aragorn with 'you can't lose with them, they're the deadliest force AROUND', way too much dialogue with Aragorn and the king of the dead, all he was supposed to do was say come with me, and walk out, they all followed. Eowen and Farimor's roles are also overly spoon-fed to the audience and then quickly abandoned at the end.

Legolas and Gimli for instance are reduced to comic relief. Again I think the director purposefully kept the focus on the four Hobbits instead of fleshing out the others who were much more interesting. Yeah they were heros BUT there were others in this cast also. If you read the books, you will be muttering to yourself 'that's not right, not here.' Gandalf seems much less effective in this film, no offense to Sir McKellan, not his fault the writing failed. For the sake of movie time, I guess, they compressed the dialogues with the kings and Gandalf/Aragorn to the point of irritation. Spoon feed the audience about the two hobbits' strife.ĭumbing down the Rohan/Gondor kings. of all the things to count on in the book it was their friendship. but the BIG gripe was seeing Gollum successfully turn Frodo against Sam early on. Okay what's the point? they should of resolved the Shelob issue in the second film and had much more thrilling battles in film 3. The Shelob action was in book 2, if you look at the ratio of book pages covering Sam/Frodo and the rest of the Fellowship in Book 3, it's like 1 to 10 respectively. Way too much Sam and Frodo at the cost of everyone else in the book. Okay no joke the graphics are kick ass, they religiously follow the book in copying the architecture, scenary, royal crests, Nazgul are cool, etc. Okay here's a place where you're actually asking for spoilers.

Lord of the rings gollum bites frodo's finger