Movie Errors

External Since: Dec 16, 2004 Posts: 38

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 08:21:02 -0500, pmhilton <pmhilton DeleteThis @mfx.net> wrote:
  >>It's an echo of how it is in the book, where Frodo offers Wormtongue a
  >>chance to recover a bit before moving on.
  >>
>Forgive me, but I've been reading the books for 30 years and fail to
>remember where Frodo ever met Wormtongue.

<<several smart-ass responses deleted>>

What Conrad said.

J.

External Since: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 50

oscwr.DeleteThis@netscape.net wrote:

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>The movie doesn't show the slightest motion of Sam trying to
>take the Ring off of Frodo after he was wrapped up by Shelob,
>and it would have required quite a lot of effort by Sam to get it.
>But Sam miraculously produces it in the tower.

Yes, it would have taken a lot of effort to do so but it presumably
provided non-book-readers with a bit of (non-Tolkienian) tension: they
were probably as convinced as Frodo that the Ring had been taken and
sent to Sauron.

>Gollum's fall after the first struggle with Frodo sure looked terminal,
>yet Gollum managed to recover and reappear in Mordor.

Gollum's a terminator. That is why he does not show pain or fear when
he falls into the lava at the end. He always comes back, unless
melted.

>Someone else has already mentioned this, but really, how could
>PJ have thought it was OK to kill the Mouth of Sauron in a parley.
>Everyone in the universe, except Peter Jackson and his writers,
>knows that you don't kill the person you are having a parley with,
>unless of course he strikes first. And even more certainly, not
>honorable men like Aragorn.

Well, there you are: apparently PJ's Aragorn /is not an honorable
man/. What else can we conclude from how PJ has portrayed him?
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