@JediMB I'm a game devoloper @Jennaralize , and i think you're wrong. This genre has never been as successful and many others, and yes in many opportunities they've tried to expand their audience, very few times successfully (recently The Walking Dead achieve it). Nevertheless, it has its niche and it's content working for it. The adventure genre is in fact a niche genre, and games like The Longest Journey has made it in the past with it's small public. Not everything has to be super sensational.
@Rat_King I was probably more annoyed with the couldn't get to see the Scoulding of the Shire, which was a marvelous way of depicting that the tragedies of war didn't end with the war itself. Plus, it changed Saruman's death to a far cheesier one. But again, The Return of The King was far too long already and i understand there was no time left
@Rat_King The books and films have totally different audiences. There is a lot that needs to be added or changed cause of production and marketing reasons, yes.You say that your list is just some of the things, i'm aware of that. I'm aware of how many licenses the movies took. I'm asking you for what you consider the biggest changes, the ones that make the movie not faithful (In your opinion). I still fail to consider them of extreme importance. They were all in there for the dramatic purposes of storytelling in film, which is totally different that the one in novels."Then convey the exact OPPOSITE of what was happening in the books" How so?The themes of nature vs industrialism, of power and war, the purpose behind every character, AND the key plot points are there. I do agree about the portrayal of Denethor, plus Gollum protoganism in the films was greatly expanded. I'm not gonna discuss with you the fact that you to discredit the fact i've read the books, nor i wont enter in a competition with you about who is the greatest fan or who has read the books more times. I prefer arguments and logic rather than showing off. I have no reason not to believe you've read the books more times that you can count, we simply disagree. I think the list of things he was faithful to is far more relevant.
@Gojomez They are just not your type of game Gojomez. I feel the opposite, and the moments i was having less fun on Heavy Rain were the same fight scenes :S I hope you're wrong about the genre not longer giving what people needs from a game. I hope there's at least an important niche that find what they want in them
@Rat_King That's because no one has missed out anything Rat King . The thing is you're overlooking how the process of adapting a book to a movie is. To say that they were not faithful AT ALL is an exaggeration considering the scope of the series. None of the things you mentioned are essential neither to the spirit of the story nor to the development of the blog.Is like the freaking constant point that Tom Bombadil didn't appear. It doesn't matter, the movies were long enough and that didn't change the core themes or events.I disagree. Peter Jackson did one extraordinary job of adaptation, and i think its fair to say no other director, with such a huge and complex material in his hands, has done such a great job understanding and sticking to the concept.In my opinion, it's far more what he was faithful to that what he wasn't.
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