WI: Tolkien lives longer?
- Thread starter mikegold
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Don't want to sound snobbish but not exactly on par with say Gabriel Garcia Marquez in term of what is usualy rewarded by one.
Most probably not.
If the matter had been still in his hands and if he had looked at the synopsis and concept art, he just wouldn't have allowed Peter Jackson to make it (as he didn't allow a cartoon adaptation in the fifties).
Alex Richards
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Although if somebody like Jackson who really loves the books and wants to make the films as much as for the sake of trying to create an in-depth visual of the world of LOTR ends up in charge of making them he might voluntarily approach Tolkein for a bit of imput regarding the script.
What about the Balrog, do you think Tolkien would appreciate the Jackson interpretation?
there dosent seem to be anything exceptionally wrong with the balrogs; tolkien described them as, in essence, looking like devils. horns? check. fire? check. shadow? check. whip? check. the only thing that he didnt include, iirc, were thee wings. the fell-beasts, in contrast, were specifically described as looking like featherless birds with bat-wings, and when asked about it later, tolkien admitted that they were very pterosaur-like even though he hadnt had pterosaurs in mind when he created them; iirc, he even offered the supposition afterwards that the fell-beasts may be the descendants of a relict population of pterosaurs