This is pretty cool, Stephen Colbert, the late night TV host, is an avid Lord of the Rings nerd.
He realised that the film Fellowship of the Ring doesn't adapt chapters 3 to 8 of the original book.
Along with his screenwriting son, they are going to adapt this into a movie to fit in amongst the existing films. Warner Bros and other associated people are all excited and on board.
Tell you what, just watch the announcement I ripped from the other place.
@kianryan *I think I read or saw somewhere that they couldn't make that character fit into the films. So they gave some of his lines and actions to other characters.
* May be misremembered bollox.
@UKFilmNerd It's a massive book, you're going to make compromises. I watched the trilogy when it was released, I watched the extended editions, I'm pretty much burned out on Jackson's Tolkein.
But I'm also pretty much burned out on Tolkein. There was definately an over-exposure in the 2000s, and I wasn't the biggest fan of his writing style then.
Oddly, I quite enjoyed the early chapters, which appears to stand in opposition to most people's opinions. However, when we get to how many pages that man can write about a tree, he can get in a hole.
@kianryan I read about half the book but got really bored of all the poems and songs.
We've also never got around to watching all of the Hobbit trilogy. I bought them all second hand in 3D because we had the TV at the time. Luckily, they all contain standard 2D copies as well. Should try that again.
In one of the forewords Tolkien wrote for a republication of the trilogy, he acknowledged that the sequence with Tom Bombadil evoked the most disparate reactions: on one hand there were many readers who found these were dull and broke the momentum of the narrative; on the other were the readers who find the Tom Bombadil sequence essential to comprehending the context of the entire narrative.
So, Tolkien himself seemed aware that readers skipped these and took it all in stride. It seems in keeping with his concept that the books were just one rendering in one media of a ‘subcreation’, a history that others were welcome to tell in their own way.
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