InklingStar wrote:
Set Harth wrote:
InklingStar wrote:
Very few scenes that are straight from the books failed, while very few scenes that were added by Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens really worked. (With notable exceptions - Boromir's death, for example.)
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That was in the books. |
The battle that killed Boromir was offscreen, so to speak, in the books. |
Set Harth wrote:
But Boromir's death wasn't.
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But the battle itself wasn't depicted is what I think is the point here. Obviously it happened, but it wasn't depicted. Just like in The Hobbit, Gandalf going off to fight The Necromancer wasn't depicted, but it was still said to have happened. By that logic Jackson isn't making anything out of thin air, he's elaborating on the details.