Posted: January 27, 2000 at 09:35:26: by shadowfax
Xenite.org's movie information site (which is well worth visiting, so drop by if you haven't done so already!!) saya it is rumoured that Eowyn's encounter with the Lord of the Nazgul may be left out. Grima would kill Theoden. At first, this may seem a sad loss. Eowyn's encounter with the Lord of the Nazgul is, in my opinion, one of the highlights of the book.On the other hand, having thought this over, Jackson may be right. My justification is this. The scene would be very difficult to portray without making it pathetic. The beauty of the scene lies in Tolkien's writing. On screen, it might just look like a cheap Wagner cliche. This is also a cliche to Macbeth, with the prophesy that no man can kill the Lord of the Nazgul in direct comparison to Macduff not being "born of woman" because he was born by caesarian. According to Shippey, this cliche was intended by Tolkien, who also felt he could make better use of Macbeth's "till great Burnham Wood to Dunsinane shall come against thee", and introduced the Ents, which put Shakespear's men carrying branches to shame. Tolkien never had special liking for Shakespeare, and was trying to do undo some of the wrongs which had been done. Sorry for the rant, but the point I am trying to make, is that it's pretty close to impossible to get this message across in a movie. Maybe Jackson is right in not burning his fingers?
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