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Movie Specific: The Two Towers. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are scouring the countryside for Merry and Pippin. Aragorn literally has his ear to the ground, Legolas is always sniffing the air for danger. So, why didn't they hear the thousands of Rohirrim--Eomer's bunch..man, he's hot--until they almost ran over them? They jumped behind a rock to avoid being run over, for heaven's sake! This is, we think, the biggest screw-up in all three movies.
Excellent question! Better ask Peter Jackson about that one!
Movie Specific: Why do the characters so often have the wrong reaction to an event? Pippin finds the seeing ball thing. Instead of thanking him profusely for spotting it, Gandalf glares at him and explains nothing. If he'd told him what it was, Pippin probably wouldn't have wanted to take a closer look.
Yeah, in the book, it's made a little more clear... in fact, just about everything regarding the palantir is deleted from the movie but much of it looks like it will show up in the extended version (all three of which, I highly recommend!) Anyhow, in the book Gandalf explains that all his concentration is on Saruman at that point AND that it's not until later when Pippin looks into it that Gandalf is sure of what that shiny pretty sphere actually is :)
When Frodo is distraught because the ring is gone, Sam produces it and Frodo freaks out because Sam had taken the ring. WTF?
Again, it's more clear in the books that the Ring takes over the bearer and that losing the ring or seeing it in possession of another is maddening. In fact, just being in close proximity of the Ring for any length of time is dangerous as Boromir learned the hard way.
For fun, check out The Encylopedia of Arda (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/) sometime :)
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Date: 2004-11-21 07:15 pm (UTC)Movie Specific: The Two Towers. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are scouring the countryside for Merry and Pippin. Aragorn literally has his ear to the ground, Legolas is always sniffing the air for danger. So, why didn't they hear the thousands of Rohirrim--Eomer's bunch..man, he's hot--until they almost ran over them? They jumped behind a rock to avoid being run over, for heaven's sake! This is, we think, the biggest screw-up in all three movies.
Excellent question! Better ask Peter Jackson about that one!
Movie Specific: Why do the characters so often have the wrong reaction to an event? Pippin finds the seeing ball thing. Instead of thanking him profusely for spotting it, Gandalf glares at him and explains nothing. If he'd told him what it was, Pippin probably wouldn't have wanted to take a closer look.
Yeah, in the book, it's made a little more clear... in fact, just about everything regarding the palantir is deleted from the movie but much of it looks like it will show up in the extended version (all three of which, I highly recommend!) Anyhow, in the book Gandalf explains that all his concentration is on Saruman at that point AND that it's not until later when Pippin looks into it that Gandalf is sure of what that shiny pretty sphere actually is :)
When Frodo is distraught because the ring is gone, Sam produces it and Frodo freaks out because Sam had taken the ring. WTF?
Again, it's more clear in the books that the Ring takes over the bearer and that losing the ring or seeing it in possession of another is maddening. In fact, just being in close proximity of the Ring for any length of time is dangerous as Boromir learned the hard way.
For fun, check out The Encylopedia of Arda (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/) sometime :)
Whew! That was fun :)