Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
by barrysteve on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:49AM
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His central idea is that living like Tom Bombadill is the joyous, uncomplicated foil to Sauron's world conquering evil. He was writing about a fantasy world 8000 years ago that was particularly dark and had yet to see 'the light'.
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
by rob74 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:06AM
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How fitting then that Tom Bombadil was completely and utterly cut from the movies...
Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
by photochemsyn on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:34AM
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THe movies were mostly Disney-field twaddle that ignored or overwrote many of the central themes and characters in the Lord of the Rings. Their only redeeming feature was that some of the actors delivered excellent performances, within the limited scope created by the director and screenwriter, and the landscape was kind of pretty.
The list of atrocities is long - the entire character of the Ents, the entire character of Faramir, the conversion of Saruman from a master propagandist and manipulator to a cartoon villain... Then there was the addition of unnecessary comic and action scenes, and the exclusion of critical scenes (Scouring of the Shire).
Read the books, ignore the Hollywood adaptations.