Re: LoTR Dialogue: Book vs. Movie

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> >Surely it could just be that Elrond's opinion is 180 degrees away from
> >Boromir's, and as events unfold is an inaccurate opinion?

> Except that's an inversion of Elrond's character. It's an inverted line
> transferred to an inverted character.

At least in the film(s), Elrond *has* a character... In the books, he
comes across to me as aloof and detached and (in the nicest possible
way) inhuman - which is absolutely right in the context of what Tolkien
was seeking to achieve. Elrond is living history - more than that,
living *mythology* - in a dwindling world rapidly forgetting its past
glories.

What Tolkien was seeking to, and did, achieve is magnificent. It's also
unfilmable. It'd be like trying to film the Bible and the Koran and the
Zend Avesta. What impresses me about Jackson's work is not how much he
cut or changed, but how much he managed to keep, and still produce
outstanding cinema.