Amazon to make new Tolkien series...

[HareBrain]

nor made some aspects of Pelenor Fields cartoon-like in tone

And made the Pelennor Fields themselves a huge grassy plain. Sure, that's going to feed a city. Or were the Gondorians a species of horse that had the ability to take on human form, like the one in Monkey?

It might seem a trivial point, but it added to several others to give a sense that Jackson didn't really care about realism. It goes along with something else in modern cinema: violence is made much more spectacular, but hits less hard because it obviously couldn't happen like that. And no one cares but me. But when I'm God-Emperor, they'll care. Oh yes, they'll care...

 

[BAYLOR]

And made the Pelennor Fields themselves a huge grassy plain. Sure, that's going to feed a city. Or were the Gondorians a species of horse that had the ability to take on human form, like the one in Monkey?

It might seem a trivial point, but it added to several others to give a sense that Jackson didn't really care about realism. It goes along with something else in modern cinema: violence is made much more spectacular, but hits less hard because it obviously couldn't happen like that. And no one cares but me. But when I'm God-Emperor, they'll care. Oh yes, they'll care...

Yes, but your not God-Emperor yet young Padawan .

 

[paranoid marvin]

I agree that the omission of the Scourging is my greatest disappointment with LOTR movies. But if Jackson had included it (and done it justice) he would have needed another 30 minutes of movie. Not only that but it would have left the majority of the theatre going audience baffled as to why the climax of the movie was a minor skirmish with Saruman and not the defeat of Sarurman. Those who are not familiar with the books would just end up confused with such a situation. It makes for a great book, but (imho) for the vast majority of the cinema audience not a great movie.

As for Pelennor Fields, I think that Jackson was trying to show an unearthly force that was invincible. And whilst they did look like a bunch of sugar-hyped dudes that had overdone it on the Reddy Brek, he did a good job in getting that across.

I agree about Faramir though, totally unnecessary and pointless change in the character. And as for Aragorn apparently falling to his death over a cliff. That trope has been used so many times, and was an unworthy addition - especially after Last Crusade did it so splendidly well.

I hope one day that we will see a serialised LOTR, done properly with a big budget for every episode.

 

[Extollager]

It would be great if discussion of the TV series were located in the Chrons section for discussion of television, and not here in the section for Tolkien.

 

[Brian G Turner]

It's fine here for the time being - there is no TV series yet to discuss.