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Originally Posted by Suzerain of Sheol

It's called an opinion. And mine is so far from yours, there probably isn't much point in us even discussing it. I honestly think they completely fail as adaptations and should be called "Peter Jackson's: The Lord of the Rings, (loosely) inspired by the work of J.R.R. Tolkien".

I agree with most of Eldorion's points here, if you want a run-down of the problems I have with it, though I don't consider myself a purist. I just feel like the story Jackson told is inferior in almost every way to the story Tolkien told.

If he'd told a better story than Tolkien, I wouldn't complain.

Edit:

I just think there is no way to get the book into a movie without those changes.
It wouldn't work, no matter WHO tried it.

I wouldn't want to watch a 20 hour movie, personally.
That's what the book is for. Books and movies are just SO different that you can never compare them without being disappointed.

I think there would have been no way to make it better without making it boring as a movie.
Probably because I like slow and descriptive books but I would fall asleep if a movie was like that.

But to each their own. *shrug*

I just hope The Hobbit is better than the book. Because the style of the book was so childish, I just don't like it at all. :<