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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-01-04 02:18 pm

[ SECRET POST #6574 ]


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Re: Adaptations you never want to see again

(Anonymous) 2025-01-05 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty much everything, yes. I've read and loved the books so many times, and I grew up a few miles from where Tolkien did and even Hobbiton looked wrong. So I got off on the wrong foot right away.

Then there were the alterations they made to the plot which didn't add up, and to the characters and their motivations (Gimli and Denethor were just the tip of a very large iceberg.) Sets were wrong - Rohan a blasted heath, more or less, and where were Minas Tirith's farmlands? Small details like that, easily fixed if they could be bothered. The seeming three months they spent on Cirith Ungol and the afternoon they spent crossing Mordor...

Some of the scenery was nice, and I'm not just talking about Sean Bean.

But Tolkien sold the rights, etc etc, and Disney will be kept at bay for a while, so that's good.
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Re: Adaptations you never want to see again

[personal profile] philstar22 2025-01-05 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I totally, totally get this. I feel like I should be this way. And I do go through times where I nitpick and get annoyed at little things. And there are adaptions where I feel this way (Wizard of Oz). And yet, as many issues as they have, when it comes to Tolkien Adaptions, I just want to be in Middle Earth. Even a really distorted version still makes me happy.

But I totally get you OP, and they do get so much wrong.