That incompetent Tolkien!
Dec. 1st, 2008 11:21 amI've written something along these lines before, but I couldn't resist posting something in a discussion group over on GoodReads. :D
Who does this "J.R.R. Tolkien" (what a fake-sounding name!) think he is, screwing up the novelizations of Peter Jackson's magnificent Lord of the Rings movies? Couldn't they have gotten a decent writer to write the novelizations?
The Tolkien guy got so many things wrong that I can hardly keep track of them all. Who is "Glorfindel", and why does he take so many of Arwen's best lines? Why did he leave out Aragorn having given up the throne in the beginning? What about Aragorn's wild wolf ride? That ride will probably be the basis of a theme-park ride some day, but when children look in the books to find it, it won't be there! Plus the books really aren't written to the appropriate age-level anyway. Everyone knows that novelizations should be aimed at the lowest age-group of the movie audience, in this case teens. Tolkien doesn't seem to have gotten that memo.
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Who does this "J.R.R. Tolkien" (what a fake-sounding name!) think he is, screwing up the novelizations of Peter Jackson's magnificent Lord of the Rings movies? Couldn't they have gotten a decent writer to write the novelizations?
The Tolkien guy got so many things wrong that I can hardly keep track of them all. Who is "Glorfindel", and why does he take so many of Arwen's best lines? Why did he leave out Aragorn having given up the throne in the beginning? What about Aragorn's wild wolf ride? That ride will probably be the basis of a theme-park ride some day, but when children look in the books to find it, it won't be there! Plus the books really aren't written to the appropriate age-level anyway. Everyone knows that novelizations should be aimed at the lowest age-group of the movie audience, in this case teens. Tolkien doesn't seem to have gotten that memo.
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