A mini rant
After watching Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the king” again last night I just needed to vent a bit. It is a beautiful film as were the two previous, and as a Tolkien fan I was willing to forgive him some of the “changes” made to the story in 1 and 2, but in 3 the story is fundamentally altered. It misses what for me was one of the most important parts of the book, but I’ll say no more. If you have read the book you will probably know which part I mean, it isn’t even mentioned in the film and indeed due to the early demise of one of the main characters, could not happen in the film.
I will never understand why film makers feel the need to change things when they make a film “based on” a book. If I was an author I would be insulted.
