More on Tolkien
Dec. 15th, 2002 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosI must admit to a certain prejudice against the adapters and writers of the movie version LotR, but I think it's based in fact. Last year, back before the movie came out, I read an interview in which they said they'd gotten so good at the tone that they couldn't tell which lines were theirs, and which were Tolkien's. I thought: wow, that sounds promising.
Then I saw the movie. And I went: okay, I can tell and I'm not the biggest Tolkien fan by any means. The lines that resonate are Tolkien's. The lines that suck are yours. Case in point: the Arwen/Aragorn goodbye scene.
And then I thought: wow, if they can't tell the difference between "I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel" and "The Shadow does not hold sway yet; not over you, not over me," well, that's a bad sign.
Then I saw the movie. And I went: okay, I can tell and I'm not the biggest Tolkien fan by any means. The lines that resonate are Tolkien's. The lines that suck are yours. Case in point: the Arwen/Aragorn goodbye scene.
And then I thought: wow, if they can't tell the difference between "I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel" and "The Shadow does not hold sway yet; not over you, not over me," well, that's a bad sign.
