Subject: Ugh, The Two Towers.
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Posted on: 2015-12-08 07:26:00 UTC

I agree that Fellowship has always been pretty good. Even though the Usual Suspects got cut (Bombadil, Glorfindel), it managed to convey the sense of wonder that we ought to get from Middle-earth. Rivendell is completely wrong (Tolkien repeatedly drew it as a single Swiss cottage), but it's very elvish.

But TTT-M... ugh. Flip Faramir's character motivation entirely on its head, flip Theoden's character motivation entirely on its head (people notice this one less, because it leads to the same results), randomly chuck Aragorn off a cliff, randomly kill Haldir, spend - per P@L's graphs - as much of the film on the battle that Tolkien once said could be cut as on the Ringbearer, ruin Gimli, ruin Treebeard... it just feels like they wrote an entirely different movie and then spliced the LotR stuff in.

RotK... yeah, you've said it already. Frodo - what have they done to you?

hS is going to have to archive the Arthedain Annex sooner or later...

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