- criitz ( @criitz@reddthat.com ) English41•14 days ago
Looks like they mostly did a good job matching up
- Cochise ( @Cochise@lemmy.eco.br ) English23•14 days ago
The Legolas-Gimli discrepancy is astonishing.
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) English11•14 days ago
Is it, though? Conventionally attractive, blonde dude vs grim, beardy dwarf? I’d rather look at the latter all day but I doubt I’m in the majority there.
- maegul (he/they) ( @maegul@lemmy.ml ) English12•14 days ago
Similarly, heroes are emphasised in the film more and villains under emphasised. Sauron, Saruman and Denethor all having less screen time than mentions.
That Sam is relatively underplayed is interesting also. Pretty sure Tolkien is on record saying Sam is the actual hero of the story. Which is there in the film, but clearly with a preference for focusing on Frodo more.
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.earth ) 7•14 days ago
Honestly surprised Legolas is over represented considering how much of a boner Tolkien had for him. But I guess everyone did, right.
- Deceptichum ( @Deceptichum@quokk.au ) English12•14 days ago
Can’t say no to that face.
- Neuromancer49 ( @Neuromancer49@midwest.social ) English15•14 days ago
Good riddance, Tom Bombadil. I don’t care how merry a fellow he was, those were my least favorite chapters of Fellowship.
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) English3•13 days ago
That’s disrespectful! He also had a bright blue jacket, and his boots were yellow.
- Prandom_returns ( @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ) English13•14 days ago
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English12•14 days ago
Tom Bombadil was my favourite part of the book, and I was so disappointed when I realised that that part had been taken out of the film.
- ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ) English9•14 days ago
The scale is neither linear nor logarithmic. What?
- Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) English1•13 days ago
Because the point isn’t to compare 2 characters, but to see how one character performs in the books and in the movies.
And for that, it doesn’t matter. But they could have used a bar graph instead.
- ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ) English1•13 days ago
Well, I’d like to know if Arwen’s screentime/mention ratio is 2x or 3x that of the Frodo baseline. This arbitrary scale makes it impossible. It would not hurt to add more values to the axes, and perhaps a faint grid.
- morphballganon ( @morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com ) English9•14 days ago
… Glorfindel was in the movies?
- hemko ( @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English15•14 days ago
In The Fellowship of the Ring, Glorfindel’s role in guiding Frodo Baggins to Rivendell is filled by Arwen, though he does appear during the prologue when Sauron is defeated. In The Return of the King, Glorfindel is seen walking next to Arwen as she is having her vision of her son Eldarion during the journey to the Grey Havens. In his last appearance, he is seen at the crowning of King Elessar, behind Legolas and in front of Arwen. In all appearances in the movies he has no speaking lines
- Taako_Tuesday ( @Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca ) English5•14 days ago
Gothmog gets screen time?
Edit: nvm that’s the uruk general. I was thinking of Morgoth
- gasgiant ( @gasgiant@lemmy.ml ) English4•14 days ago
The balance of this doesn’t surprise me. The shift between book and film is quite heavily based on gender.
The books were certainly much more male character based and the films evened it up a bit more. Although obviously still not even.
- Hupf ( @Hupf@feddit.org ) English4•13 days ago
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) English3•13 days ago
I’m actually fairly ok with this, more or less what I would expect from a mainstream movie(s, and the fact that they are good is just a nice bonus).