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Could Sean Bean have played both Boromir and Faramir? They were brothers, after all. And he could have made himself look different enough as Faramir by wearing a different wig and giving himself a clean shave. That would have solved the problem of the Bean-vacuum in movies 2 and 3. However it...

I think Sauron's appearance in the prologue of FOTR doesn't diminish his evil mystique. For one thing, he looks awesome. That armor they designed for him is so menacing. Extremely intricate, etched with ancient runes, a helmet like a ox's skull -- I think it really conveys Sauron's essence...

Dee, what you call "character continuity" is not something that Tolkien tried to maintain in his story. He was perfectly happy to introduce characters, have them perform their function in the story, and then never revisit them again. There's Glorfindel, Radagast, Tom Bombadil, Erkenbrand, The...

I think that in Star Wars we had a greater sense of danger to the characters, even if we were pretty sure that they wouldn't die, for the simple fact that we didn't know the story before seeing the movie. In LOTR, many of us have read the books so we know who lives and who dies. That doesn't...

Dee, Tolkien wrote about things that interested him, and those things were not the same as what interests the writers and readers of modern novels. But to say that it's not good writing because of that is unfair. I find myself more emotionally drawn into the world of Tolkien than I do the worlds...

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In TTT the movie, the fell beast may have had a hand in the wraith's decision to fly away, but the wraith surely could have compelled it to stay there if he really wanted to. The arrow hurt the beast, but it wasn't so wounded that it had to fly away in terror. After Sam tackles Frodo and they...

The fell beast in TTT was not killed by the arrow. It just retreated after being hit, and because the Nazgul no longer sensed the ring and felt no need to stick around.

Yeah, Liv crying was an extremely unflattering look for her. Very shocking considering that in the previous shot she looked gorgeous. She's definitely got some of her dad in her. I would lose that!

The Easterlings' uniforms do look very impressive. Their marching chant is also very distinctive and exotic-sounding. It was a great job by the art department. The Haradrim look like a bunch of goofballs in comparison. :)

The context of Sam's speech in the book is not that similar to context of his speech in the movie. In the book, Frodo is willing to keep going even before Sam makes he speech, saying "I don't like anything here at all. Step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so...

I could have done without Sam's speech, but it doesn't bother me too much. It is in the book (with the exception of the George Bush line), but it occurs after Frodo, Sam, and Gollum have climbed the stairs to Cirth Ungol and are about to cross into Mordor. It comes off more as folk wisdom from...

Pete, I believe that "The White Rider" is the music that gets played when Gandalf rides away on Shadowfax before the battle. The music for the final charge is actually "Forth Eorlingas." The last minute or so, specifically, is the music of Gandalf / Eomer's charge down the hill. It really is...

Novelist might not be an accurate description of Tolkien altogether. He did not consider LOTR a novel, but a romance.

Andy, Like Philip said, Grond is definitely going to be in ROTK. There's even a picture of it online somewhere. The passage that you quoted is from ROTK, so there was no reason to have a battering ram like that in TTT. :) Seth, I'm 90% sure that Gollum says something about the rope being...

About the Gollum / rope thing: Gollum does say something about the rope being twisted by the elves, so adept viewers can assume that Sam got the rope from the elves in Lothlorien. And as for Merry and Pippen knowing about the trees on the South end of Fangorn being chopped down -- they did...

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If Faramir really needs to redeem himself, he does it by releasing Frodo, which warrants execution according the laws of Gondor's military. It's the equivalent of releasing spies back to the enemy -- treason. And from the sound of it Faramir fully expects to by killed for his crime. So he, in...