[at-l] LOTR The Movie: The bad news.....

[The Lehmkuhl Family" <lehmkuhl@gte.net (The Lehmkuhl Family)]

oh that does make me feel better. And I agree I am torn but I will have to
go...movies generally do not live up to a really great book but have to go
anyway.  I will have to check out the website...where are you all going to
get this info?

vera
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nina Baxley" <infpeace@yahoo.com>
To: "The Lehmkuhl Family" <lehmkuhl@gte.net>; "Orange Bug"
<orangebug74@yahoo.com>; <DaRedhead@aol.com>; <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 6:34 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] LOTR The Movie: The bad news.....


> --- The Lehmkuhl Family <lehmkuhl@gte.net> wrote:
> > I agree since, and please correct me here, begging
> > someone to correct me...I
> > heard that they have written a female into the
> > fellowship....please let it
> > not be true...
>
> Actually I'm pretty sure that is a big fat ugly
> stinkin' rumor. There were rumors that Arwen in
> particular was added to the fellowship. What I heard
> (I've become a bit of a LoTR movie website junkie) was
> that Peter Jackson had planned to take more liberties
> with the story than he did; the Tolkien fans were
> practically up in arms and there was a lot of pressure
> from the fandom to stick more to the actual text. From
> what I have heard, he has made an effort to do that.
>
> I can totally understand Kahley not wanting to see
> it--I am torn myself between not wanting the movie to
> mar my own imaginative interpretation after many
> readings, and curiosity to see how it is. I have only
> seen one movie (the Russian version of "War and
> Peace") in which the cast looked amazingly like I had
> imagined the characters. The LoTR characters have been
> pretty well picked, I think. I wasn't crazy about Liv
> Tyler playing Arwen either, but who knows, maybe she
> will surprise everyone.
>
> Waterfall
>
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