So I finally finish my J. R. R. Tolkien re read...
I've done it! Read The Hobbit, LOTR and The Silmarillion in a row.
Reviews (ish) under cut link (well these are re-reads):
( The Hobbit )
Reviews (ish) under cut link (well these are re-reads):
( The Hobbit )
No, I don't think it is. I write fanfiction about 'missing scenes' or, in the case of TV, meta fic about the lack of coherence, but I don't like fanfic writers who 'reboot' the canon, like they understood what the writer meant and the writer, stupid as he/she is, didn't. I'm not saying Jackson rebooted the canon here, but he forced his interpretation on the viewer. Which is great if you share his interpretation, but as I don't like the way he did it, it annoys me.
In the case of adaptation, I don't like it when screenwriters/directors specify an interpretation of the original text, because the readers who didn't see the same things are denied their interpretation in the adaptation. That's why I'm for adaptations that stick to canon as much as possible, so that everybody can still interprete the story in their own way.
I disliked Tolkien's deliberate footnoting of women in LOTR.
I don't think Eowyn or Galadriel are footnotes... Maybe Arwen is a small character in LotR because that's what she was meant to be. I don't know, tbh I think I'm biased because I don't like the way Jackson did it and I don't like Liv Tyler. Take a different actress and write the scenes differently and maybe I'd be in love with this storyline, so 'joker' on that. I don't give as strong opinions as I used to, because now I find that small details can change your whole perception or something. I was probably annoyed by Tyler and Weaving more than anything else. That and the fact that I felt it was done for a commercial purpose: let's show more of the pretty lady/actress of the moment. I was equally annoyed at the scene in HP6 when they burned the Burrow just to show Bellatrix. I like HBC, but it wasn't in the book!
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