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REVIEW: Lord of the Rings | by Illiad | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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by boldgeek |
2001-12-24 05:44:47 |
Well I have to disagree with most of what I've read here.
Merry and Pippin ARE the comic relief in the early part of the book. Yes, later they do grow up, but they were always the "young Hobbits" and this came across very well.
Love scene: It was fine and I have no quibble with it. It added depth to the sterile Aragorn/Arwen relationship in the book. JRRT had no understanding of women so didn't include them in his book. No I didn't miss Glorfindel in the slightest, he was a spare wheel at the best of times and it was obvious that Arwen would take his role to give the character something to actually DO rather than moon around in the background.
Tom Bombadil: What a relief that whole Old FOrest section was dropped! Phew, that is unbelivably tedious in the book - except the Barrow Downs section, but well, I am happy they cut Bombadil out. Now if they'd brought Tim Benzedrine and Hashberry in... :)
Legolas is awesome - and did anyone else spot the very subtle "walking on the surface of the snow while the rest plough through it" bit while battling Caradras? Fantastic :-)
Rope: Oh come on, its a pathetic joke anyway, who cares that they dropped it.
Cloaks and pins: again, what the hell is wrong? Its NOT a bit issue - you see the oak leaf pins plenty of times later, and it is not very important until the second/third books anyway so they have plenty of tiem to explain it.
Moria: Truly impressive apart from a couple of places where less that top quality cgi showed through (ie you can tell it was cgi). Fave bits: Gimli: "Nobody THROWS a Dwarf" and "Not the beard not the beard!" (BTW why are Dwarves Scottish???? :-) ) The Balrog was superb.
Elves: now here I was truly impressed - they all had that "Look" know what I mean? And the subtle difference in Elrond, showing his part human ancestry in the way he looked a little less "etherial" than the pureblood elves, very nicely done.
Battle scenes, yes I agree they were very impressive not to say jaw-dropping. I love the story I read from the programmers who gave each figure an AI to control them in battle and then discovered that a whole load of them "ran away" instead of fighting :-)
Anyway ratings out of 5 are too coarse a judgement - I'll give it 9.5 out of 10 simply because the Hobbit children were just TOO DAMN CUTE ;-)
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Good points | by RobF | 2001-12-26 06:29:27 |
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About Elrond | by sherim | 2001-12-28 09:06:46 |
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Elrond and Matrix | by LeiraHoward | 2001-12-28 20:53:36 |
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Thanks | by RobF | 2001-12-31 06:24:17 |
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Heh. | by bladedancer | 2002-01-04 11:12:56 |
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"Yes!" | by hpeg | 2002-01-14 09:47:27 |
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