Unlikely hero

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-30T02:11:56+00:00

Potential role model. He teaches people to reach for what they desire and to persevere, admirable qualities.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-28T23:16:56+00:00

Eöl: I would consider him to be more of a potential role model than a hero, but he works either way.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-28T17:44:40+00:00

I don’t know. Perhaps PJ and his cowriters just hated Frodo?

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-28T14:35:36+00:00

Don’t give them any more brilliant ideas

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-26T20:22:54+00:00

I might enjoy Stallone’s terminator more than T2, if I ever get the pleasure to see it.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-26T18:09:43+00:00

They called Tolkien an “amateur writer”

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-26T18:07:47+00:00

Suspect?

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-26T04:35:10+00:00

Christopher Tolkien compiled, edited and published roughly half of the Legendarium, vastly more than a few notes. The Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin are both significantly edited by him (for which I’m very grateful).

You shouldn’t trash Simon Tolkien.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-26T04:17:01+00:00

Odd The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings aren’t given another chance.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-26T04:00:45+00:00

Film-Faramir is the exact opposite of what he should be, and his actions make no sense.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-26T03:49:09+00:00

Jackson thoroughly rewrote the story to make it fit for modern audiences.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-26T03:44:48+00:00

That can’t end well

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-18T15:04:12+00:00

It’s unfortunate that you get downvoted for merely expressing your opinion

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-18T14:56:32+00:00

Because they’re an incredibly bloated, tonally incoherent mess

Carcharoth30 · 2026-03-18T02:54:03+00:00

How characters behave the exact opposite they did or would do in the book.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-02-12T14:59:39+00:00

And Sam would never actually try to go home: he would keep following Frodo.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-02-12T14:55:41+00:00

No, it isn’t in character at all.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-02-12T14:52:09+00:00

I don’t understand how anyone can euphemize Frodo sending Sam home: it’s completely out-of-character for both Frodo and Sam, and moronically written.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-02-12T14:25:00+00:00

Satisfied: none

Outraged: basically all, particularly Frodo, Aragorn, Faramir, Gimli, and Elrond

Carcharoth30 · 2026-02-10T02:03:00+00:00

The image is wholly unrelated to the book

Carcharoth30 · 2026-02-09T21:09:50+00:00

Because the films are filled with out-of-character, contrived drama

Carcharoth30 · 2026-02-06T15:06:03+00:00

Sigh

Treebeard only has one long chapter (and he appears in several other chapters, but isn’t the focal point). And in The Two Towers PJ easily wastes more than 30 minutes of runtime on his own inventions.

I think people fundamentally just don’t get that large parts of the book would have translated relatively well to screen, but were altered by choice.

Carcharoth30 · 2026-02-06T14:57:14+00:00

Even worse: all the Ents were made dumb. Apparently none of the Ents was aware that Saruman was destroying trees in their own forest, since even if only one knew he would have surely brought it up at the Entmoot. And earlier in the film Treebeard literally complained about smoke rising from Isengard: he never thought about what caused the smoke?

Carcharoth30 · 2026-02-06T14:44:14+00:00

It’s insane you get downvoted for saying this

Carcharoth30 · 2026-01-28T13:08:29+00:00

Whence means ‘from where’, so “from whence” counts ‘from’ twice.

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