Whoooaaa, hold on a sec there, Sparky

[serai]

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Here's something interesting.

Deadline issued to produce documents for LOTR trial

The whole thing's proceeding as trials do, but here is the part that caught my eye:


Trust attorneys maintain "The Two Towers" incorporates portions and scenes taken from other Tolkien books. The film company lawyers maintain they need to know how that claim is supported so they can prepare their defense.


Wait...WHAT?? Scenes from other Tolkien books? What scenes from other Tolkien books? Sure, PJ & Co. moved things around and added here and there in order to shape the story to the ends of their film, but...WHAT??

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty damn familiar with the legendarium, and I didn't recognize anything from other books in there. In fact, as I understand it, they bent over backwards not to include stuff from any of the other books, since they already knew going in what pricks the Tokien Trust are about this stuff.

Also, I heard just about EVERY DAMN ARGUMENT from the most purist, obsessed fans about every single frame of film in 2T, and this is one criticism I never heard. And if there's a group of people who would definitely know if something had been imported from another book, it's that bunch of sphincterheads.


So, let's hear it. Looking back on The Two Towers, do any of you recognize anything from any other Tolkien book in it? Something that's not from either the main text or the appendices to LOTR?

Comments

[serai1.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. And the things they made up - the Elves at Helm's Deep, Aragorn's falling off the cliff, etc. - don't appear in any way in Tolkien's other books. Hell, that's WHY the purists were so pissed off! If it had been a matter of "we took this from the other book and put it in here because it helps us out", the purists wouldn't have been nearly so up in arms. (As a TORn alumni, you were there and saw all these discussions.)

Personally, I think they're just whoring after more money. But you know, trying to pull one over on the court is really the wrong way to go about it. What, the $150M they're asking for isn't enough, that they have to make shit up to get more?

(I actually hope they press this, and get proven wrong. It'll put the rest of their case in a bad light if they keep pushing it.)

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Kinda makes you wonder if the people running the Tolkien Trust have ever actually read all his books, doesn't it?