by Scellanis » Monday 11 April 2005 9:08:19pm
You don't get to see any of the personal side of the characters in any of the movies because Peter screwed them up...
for example, Pippin is not a fool of a took...tis Aragorn who lets the nazgul see them on Weathertop not the hobbits, tis Borromir who throws the stone in the pool and wakes up the watcher in the lake....the palantir thing is beyond his control and its Gandalf's fault for ever letting him touch it in the first place and not guarding it properly....also they plotted and planned for ages and knew Frodo was planning to leave, they didn't fall into the quest, they knew all about it and still chose to help him even though they knew what he was planning to do. Pippin and Merry didn't theive from Farmer maggot, that was Frodo stealing mushrooms when he was a kid, also they didn't steal the dragon rocket cos the fireworks went without a hitch in the book.
oh yes, and Gimli is not the light releif, he knew his relatives were mostly likely dead, he never expected them to be alive roasting meat on the bone etc....
Gandalf got most of Legolas's most intelligent lines, Aragorn got most of Gandalf's best lines....Arwen is screwed up because she is just a girl in an elf city, Glorfindel rescues Frodo from the nazgul and Arwen shouldn't aappear in the 2nd movie at all.
So all in all, the characters in the movie bear no resemblence to the characters in the book and the book came first so I know which ones I'll be taking notice of.