What change in the movies ticks you off the most?

[Moriarty]

They are in the tape / audio book section of every Borders and most other bookshops I have been in .....especially now the film is out. Online ..... Amazon have them.
Go for the cd's if you can afford to ......sadly the BBC only very slowly puts things out on cd well after tape .... but these are both available on cd.
Just make sure you get the BBC drama versions and not any other or a talking book ( read ) version!
Nobody does radio plays better than the BBC!
The BBC LOTR is brilliant.

 

[Moriarty]

With regard to the Americanization ( if there is such a word ) or simplifying of any language or dialect for the so called wider audience I think we all hate it and think it unnecessary, but someone out there .... producers etc...... think it is necessary unfortunately! It's a kind of extension of what I liker to call the McDonalds effect ( or if you like the buzzword 'Globalization' )which if were not careful will mean that everywhere will one day be the same.
I don't like hearing fake American accents and don't like to hear fake British accents ( or American accents in Period English drama for that matter ). If it doesn't belong it shouldn't be forced.
I hear people in the states using British slang because of popular British authors books like the Harry Potter series......and American slang is popular in the UK also. If we all spoke the same way wouldn't it be boring!
People generally are interested in finding out what something means .... particularly local phrases.
So I hope not too much of the language has been changed in LOTR ..... because the poetry and language used by the characters and narrative in the books is what conveys the different characters and the entire world that Tolkien created. And that is it's lasting appeal.

 

[ReadWryt]

Well I will give P.J. credit for ONE thing, he has Elves speaking Elvish with subtitles...that's worth SOME merit!

 

[Elanor]

It's all too much. My head is spinning and Thorin is scaring me. I want to see the movie first and make any judgements after. After the movie is released the we can lynch P.J. if thats what he deserves.

 

[Lord Snotty]

Originally posted by Talierin
Here is picture proof that the orcs are hatching from pods in the movies:

http://www.numenoreen.com/images.php3

This is really disturbing me, because PJ is sick enough to put something like this in LOTR. Tolkien would probably have a heart attack if he could see this stuff being done to his wonderful book.

i'm gonna throw up

 

[Lord Snotty]

note

it is note just Peter Jackson's fault, it is also the script writers fault, which i just realised

 

[Greymantle]

He was one of the three writers, was he not? Or was it two?

 

[Rosie Cotton]

Yes, PJ was a script writer. It was PJ, Phillipa Boyns (sp?), and some other guy.

 

[Moonbeams]

Let's see, which of the changes ticks me off the most? Hard to decide, there are sooooo many... Concider me a very conservative person who does not like any changes on her favorite book, EVERYTHING about the movie, every change is very annoying to me. But I'd say, if any roumor about how Gandalf shreiks and yells like a scared boy is true, how he doesn't appear like the Gandalf who is always in control, who always has another solution up his sleeve, if they indeed have changed Gandalf, that will be the thing that will give me a heart attack right there in the movie theatre.

 

[Elbereth547]

yeah! I was in this LOTR chat room thing and all these people were ganging up on me because I was worried about the movie coming out (because of stuff being changed). but I mean, the books are so awesome how can you not be nervous that they'll screw it up?

 

[Moriarty]

Moonbeams,
Gandalf seems to shreik and yell even in the trailer which I thought a bit odd when I saw it. He does seem a bit of a scaredy cat in the clips. Well if it's any consolation he will die before the end You might be wishing for that bit to come quick though.
I think it will be a great movie .... lets face it it can't fail to be even if you had half the storyline .... BUT it won't be a movie of the book .... well we already know this from scenes missing and added, and characters not acting in the same way.

Peter Jackson has already set himself up as a sort of George Lucas by doing it...... I feel he intends this as his legacy ....... and is milking it for every bit of publicity it's worth.
I mean no-one had heard of him before this! ( how the hell did he manage to get to be the one to do it I wonder )!
I suppose if he deosn't make changes he doesn't put his mark on the movie.
Think maybe he should have made The Hobbit and worked up to the big one ?

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

Gandalf a shrieking school boy?

NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,And NO!! what the hell is this? I loved gandalf and would hate to see him crushed!!

But i am glad to see tom b. out of the movie.

He was the biggest fag.

 

[Greymantle]

Watch it, mister.
That isn't going to make you terribly popular around here.

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

sorry,

 

[Moonbeams]

Honestly, I've watched the trailer about two times, first time I couldn't belive my eyes, secont time I was just totaly #%@"#$, and so every time after that, I'd just switch to another channel. So, I kind of forgot how it looks like (represion... one day I'll pay my shrink a lot of money because of it... )... I just keep hoping it's a figment of my imagination... or too much beer...

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

sorry,

In the book I found him to be extremly...um.... different yea, diferent. I mean we have no clue were he came from or what he is. It is not the coolest thing ether when a huge mm... what do ya call em' whiets? well any way this huge monster is going to kill the hobbits and tom starts singing at it. I love all of the songs and poetry, but when i find a person i really like in the begining and then end up not likeing them it gets me mad.


I didn't mean to start calling names but you have to admit that he is just the slitest bit queer...................

 

[Moonbeams]

Well, singing has actualy been very important in some mithologies... Orpheus could control wild beasts and the master of darkness, Had himself, with just a song.
And the song of Ainu has been the creation of the whole world. Music and song is a very powerful tool in Tolkiens world.
(pardon my misspeling of words, I've never read the book in english).

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

Yea thats what i mean.

I love all the songs in mytholagy but for some reason or anouther all or tom's songs just ticked me off. I stoped reading the book, i wouldn't eat, wouldn't sleep, i would just stare at my walls just to realise that sometimes a person like that is needed in a book to lighten the hart and to make all merry. (joke )

 

[Eomer Dinmention]

I think this whole thing is stupid what there putting in and leaving out but all there trying to do is make it more exciting so the can make more big buck why do you need to make it more exciting when it already is i tell ya i'm going to go an complain and if he doesn't change them i will RIP OF HIS THROAT AND $#!+ DOWN IT AND THEN I SHALL CRUSH HIM WITH MY DRAGON BLUDRAG

 

[DGoeij]

Tom is weird allright, but cool too. To bad they left him out, but I can handle the truth. Too much time for to little addition to the story.
The Arwen-incident is still the thing I reject at firsthand. But I have to see the movie first.