From: mike.scott.rohan@asgardpublishing.co.uk   
      
   On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 8:35:55 AM UTC, Sandman wrote:   
      
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   > According to the general and vast majority of the audience, the best    
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   > "remake" has already been done. Apart from a incredibly small minority,    
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   > people love the movies and hail it as one of the best trilogies ever made,    
   >    
   > up there with Star Wars. So basically, when millions upon millions cheer    
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   > the movies, the ten people whining in a corner isn't really being heard    
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   > that much :)   
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   > Sandman[.net]   
      
   Millions upon millions of people can still be wrong. A majority can believe in   
   alien abductions or "the Jewish conspiracy" without making them one iota more   
   true. There was a time when the majority wouldn't bother to read a book about   
   hobbits and elves,    
   until it was reduced to a comic-strip extravanganza for them.   The truth is   
   that the majority of the audience enjoys the spectacle in the most vapid   
   possible way, without understanding where it came from, and would enjoy, say,   
   a film of Terry Brooks or    
   Lin Carter's infantile Thongor books on the same basis. A somewhat smaller   
   section of it does appreciate the original, but enjoys  -- or tolerates -- the   
   films for the few aspects they get more or less right. And another section,   
   while acknowledging    
   those few things, is irritated beyond endurance by the stupidities,   
   coarsenings, reductions to teen moron level and blatant insertions for video   
   game's sake (the fight in Moria, the river run in the new Hobbit) that they   
   embody, far beyond what's    
   necessary for cinema adaptation. They can perhaps, for example, accept   
   building up Arwen, but not the nonsense with Aragorn in Two Towers; or the   
   idiotic "possession" of Theoden; or the complete mess of the Ents; or the   
   complete travesty of Denethor's    
   character...the list's endless. That minority might not be as tiny as you   
   suggest -- and what if it includes people who know and value the book better   
   than anyone else? Such as Christopher Tolkien himself; and even other Tolkien   
   experts who actually    
   worked on the films. Their views outweigh the majority any day.   
      
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