10) Arwen's part needed to be expanded otherwise no one would know why Aragorn was marrying her rather than Eowyn.
Well, they could, oh, I don't know, read the book?
Only trouble of course is that if the movie were just like the book, it'd be a guys-only movie. Tolkien's female characters were all bit parts and only Eowyn made any real impact on the story. I wouldn't care, myself, but lots of other people would be frothing at the mouth. Of course, myself I could have done without even the minimal romance in the book, let alone the inflated stuff in the movie. (But then, I'm a grinch. *G*) I think Tolkien only stuck in the Aragorn/Arwen marriage as an afterthought because high fantasy traditionally has the hero marrying at the end.
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Date: 2003-12-26 07:29 pm (UTC)Well, they could, oh, I don't know, read the book?
Only trouble of course is that if the movie were just like the book, it'd be a guys-only movie. Tolkien's female characters were all bit parts and only Eowyn made any real impact on the story. I wouldn't care, myself, but lots of other people would be frothing at the mouth. Of course, myself I could have done without even the minimal romance in the book, let alone the inflated stuff in the movie. (But then, I'm a grinch. *G*) I think Tolkien only stuck in the Aragorn/Arwen marriage as an afterthought because high fantasy traditionally has the hero marrying at the end.
/babbling