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   Troels Forchhammer  spoke these staves:   
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   > The personality of a character can of course be discussed just   
   > fine in an objective discussion, and there is a universal   
   > agreement that the personality of the characters in Jackson's   
   > story is generally very different from the personality of the same   
   > characters in Tolkien's story -- even among the Tolkien scholars   
   > (including the top-rank Tolkien scholar) who have only positive   
   > things to say about Jackson's films.   
      
   I can recommend /Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The   
   Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy/ edited by Janice M. Bogstad and   
   Philip E. Kaveny and with contributions from several leading Tolkien   
   scholars (McFarland 2011) -- I have only skimmed this volume so I   
   might run the risk of being contradicted in one of the essays there   
   -)   This volume is generally considered a Jackson apologia and the   
   second part, "Techniques of Character and Culture" should pertain to   
   the above.   
      
   There is also a book edited by Janet Brennan Croft, /Tolkien on Film:   
   Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings/ which is seen as   
   more critical of Jackson's (and cohorts') work.   
      
   Also Tom Shippey's /The Road to Middle-earth/ contains, in its third   
   edition, an added chapter, 'Peter Jackson's Film Versions' in which   
   Shippey discusses the /LotR/ films and particularly the many changes   
   Jackson made to Tolkien's story. Shippey is rather accepting of these   
   changes, discussing the (possible) reasoning behind them.   
      
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