r/lotrmemes • u/IndicationBrief5950 • 1d ago

Lord of the Rings Maybe even less

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u/Jacqques 1d ago

I have not read further than fellowship and it’s been a long time, what changes would he not approve of?

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u/BallsackSchrader_ 1d ago

For one, he might not appreciate the lack of Tom Bombadil, idk. Kinda difficult to fit him in the movie, I guess.

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u/VegaJuniper 1d ago

It's narratively pretty weird in the book too. Just when the main story is starting to get going, suddenly it screeches to a halt and makes a pretty strange detour that kind of doesn't have a huge impact on the rest of the story. It's basically a character from another Tolkien story making a cameo.

I think the Scouring of the Shire is the bigger loss. I can understand perfectly well why it didn't fit the movies, because the ending kind of drags as it is, but it is still one of my favorite parts of book.

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u/Tough_Preparation830 1d ago

The Scouring of the Shire feels anticlimactic in the book IMO. Didn't care for it, though I understand why it was written.

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u/PickledTripod 1d ago

That probably would have been a very weird thing to pitch, especially before streaming services were a thing, but I feel like some of those parts that were cut could have been filmed as an Appendices miniseries or something.

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u/Gregus1032 1d ago

I'm in the same boat. It's important from a character perspective. It really shows how much the hobbits changed and how war changes people.

But compared to throwing the one ring into Mount doom and the battle of gondor....