Holy shit, that sounds like an epic story to leave out of the trilogy movies! lol Though of course I understand why they wanted a nice clean happy ending to that tale. Not like Peter et. al. knew it’d blow up so huge and they’d end up able to do far more eventually.
The stated reason for cutting it is that the ring was already destroyed, Sauron already dead, it was somewhat bizarre to have a 2nd, smaller final battle.
Yes it adds to the story and gives Wormtongue/Saruman a sendoff the theatrical release lacked. Its great wordbuilding but just like Tom Bombadil, doesnt add to the overall movie.
There would be continuity issues with Jackson’s adaptation, too—in the films, Saruman and Wormtongue die at Isengard (in the extended edition), Galadriel says Frodo’s dystopian vision of the Shire is what will happen if he fails, Rosie Cotton is a barmaid instead of a fellow member of Sam’s agrarian resistance cell, Odo Proudfoot and the rest of Hobbiton are visibly unchanged when the hobbits arrive, etc.
Holy shit, that sounds like an epic story to leave out of the trilogy movies! lol Though of course I understand why they wanted a nice clean happy ending to that tale. Not like Peter et. al. knew it’d blow up so huge and they’d end up able to do far more eventually.
The stated reason for cutting it is that the ring was already destroyed, Sauron already dead, it was somewhat bizarre to have a 2nd, smaller final battle.
Yes it adds to the story and gives Wormtongue/Saruman a sendoff the theatrical release lacked. Its great wordbuilding but just like Tom Bombadil, doesnt add to the overall movie.
Yea, definitely a story beat that works far better in book form. Or I guess later movies/shows as suggested, too. lol
And in the movies they’d already thrown Saruman off the tower onto the spikey wheel.
There would be continuity issues with Jackson’s adaptation, too—in the films, Saruman and Wormtongue die at Isengard (in the extended edition), Galadriel says Frodo’s dystopian vision of the Shire is what will happen if he fails, Rosie Cotton is a barmaid instead of a fellow member of Sam’s agrarian resistance cell, Odo Proudfoot and the rest of Hobbiton are visibly unchanged when the hobbits arrive, etc.
I agree, but that was Capitalist Owners of Hollywood studios BLANKING everything up.
Ahhhhh yea, great points… I totally forgot about that despite the glorious https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqC5FnvAEc