j_nobodyMar 11
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Lord of the Rings characters: screen time vs mentions in the book.

The further from the dotted line, the further off trend.

By reddit user austinw-8 https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/Dw7XqDxyEB

Mar 10 at 7:55pmWeb
Show threadWintergreenMar 10

@infobeautiful

Tom Bombadil should be off the the bottom of the chart.

Show threadChipotle Axolotl (aka Julian)Mar 10
@Wintergr33n @infobeautiful Tom bombadil is the jar jar binks of LOTR
Show threadWintergreenMar 10

@julianlawson @infobeautiful

Whelp, Jar Jar made it into the movie.

Tom is like Yoda's drunk uncle.

Show threadGilesMar 10
@Wintergr33n @infobeautiful I feel like The Rings Of Power TV series more than made up for the Bombadil deficit.
Show threadFrank SkorniaMar 10

@infobeautiful I love Legolas and Gimli being almost the same in number of mentions, but largely divergent in screen time.

Justice for dwarves!

Show threadSimon ZerafaMar 10

@infobeautiful

Leaving out Glorfindal out of the movies was a shame 🥺

Show threadÆ Sea F.Mar 10
@infobeautiful what does the dotted line represent? What are its slope and intercept?
Show threadArmchair EpistemologistMar 11
@hcf @infobeautiful I suspect that frodo defines the slope
Show threadÆ Sea F.Mar 11

@rcriii @infobeautiful yeah, ok, Frodo is the main character so it makes sense, I agree.

But the line doesn't touch the origin. I wonder why.

Show threadArmchair EpistemologistMar 11

@hcf @infobeautiful I missed that! So maybe the line is a best fit forced through Frodo, i.e a kind of average?

Since the graph seems to only include characters appearing the books and no movie only characters,, it makes sense that the y intercept >0.

Show threadMortenMar 10
@infobeautiful How can Radagast and Tom Bombadil have the same screen time when Tom wasn't in the movies at all and Radagast had a fair bit of time? Or was he only in the Hobbit?
Show threadJanek @ IndieDev.siteMar 10
@drgroftehauge @infobeautiful Radagast was in Hobbit only
Show threadFrançois·6poMar 11
@drgroftehauge @infobeautiful
Radagast doesn't appear in the Lord of the Rings movies, only the Hobbit movies
On the other hand he appear in the Lord of the Rings books, but not in the Hobbit books
Show threadMortenMar 11
@francois6po @infobeautiful I feel like that deserves a special version of his data point
😜
Show threadbabblingMar 10

@infobeautiful

asking as someone who isn't much versed in lord of the rings either books or films, does it make sense to juxtapose minutes to mentions?