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Originally Posted by neverending
Good God I couldn't disagree more.
Lird of the Rings is so far from Tolkein it should be renamed Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings.
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i've read lord of the rings several times.
i completely understand every change that was made.
some books cant possibly be filmed verbatim - what may work in print doesn't necessarily work on film.
i feel the same way about Lynch's Dune and the Harry Potter films.
i'm an avid reader ... but i'm also very aware of how films are made and the choices that are taken when converting print to a movie. you cannot make a movie word for word from any book - at least not as large as LOTR or Dune..
They just wouldnt work - they'd be 25 hours long for one thing..