The only scene they restored that I think should have stayed out of the extended version was the Saruman/Wormtongue scene. It was just horribly out of place where it was, and it should have been much later (in the Scouring Of The Shire, which should have been in there, as it's not being in there seriously lessens the meaning of the end of the story, since The Shire is never effected in any way by the war, and the whole meaning of the ending was about how war changes things, and how people cope and grow from the experience, but that is a whole nother argument).
I felt just about the same with the Saruman/Wormtongue as I did when Sam and Frodo were taken to Osgiliath(?) by Faramir and Sam said "We never should have come here, Mr. Frodo" and I wanted to shout out "Of course you shouldn't have! You didn't in the book!" :) The scene with Saruman and Wormtongue should not have happened there and then, it was badly out of place. I know concessions need to be made to transfer books to film, and I grumblingly accepted the changes to the Hobbits leaving the shire, the removal of Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Wights (where they get the ancient magical weapons that allows Merry to effect the Lord Of The Nazgul at all, allowing Eowyn to rally and strike him down,), um, sigh... Ok, I did love the movies, and I hate to sound like a fanboy purist, but there were just some changes that Hollywood insists on that really bugged me, and I will now stop wasting space in your journal and leave you to your enjoyment. Maybe I will waste some space in my own journal to list all my gripes about the changes.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2004-12-26 04:26 pm (UTC)I felt just about the same with the Saruman/Wormtongue as I did when Sam and Frodo were taken to Osgiliath(?) by Faramir and Sam said "We never should have come here, Mr. Frodo" and I wanted to shout out "Of course you shouldn't have! You didn't in the book!" :) The scene with Saruman and Wormtongue should not have happened there and then, it was badly out of place. I know concessions need to be made to transfer books to film, and I grumblingly accepted the changes to the Hobbits leaving the shire, the removal of Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Wights (where they get the ancient magical weapons that allows Merry to effect the Lord Of The Nazgul at all, allowing Eowyn to rally and strike him down,), um, sigh... Ok, I did love the movies, and I hate to sound like a fanboy purist, but there were just some changes that Hollywood insists on that really bugged me, and I will now stop wasting space in your journal and leave you to your enjoyment. Maybe I will waste some space in my own journal to list all my gripes about the changes.
Enjoy the films :)