But he certainly wouldn't be able to say the film treated his work carelessly, recklessly or "with no evident signs of any appreciation of what it is all about." Quite the opposite. Thankfully, to his great credit, director Peter Jackson delivered something akin to a miracle: a near-reverential adaptation anchored to the heart and spirit of Tolkien's tale and a dazzling fantasy film in its own right, willing to part ways with the original text when it became, as Tolkien dubbed his saga, "unfilmable." Were he still alive, the late author would have no doubt taken issue with some of the particular decisions Jackson and co-writers Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens made in the course of their adaptation.
(Ralph Bakshi's incomplete animated adaptation notwithstanding.) And so it was that, in December of 2001, literary purists, Tolkien devotees, movie critics and cinephiles of all stripes filed into director Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring with bated breath, wondering if the film they were about to see would cause Tolkien irritation or resentment, or if it would even work as a film at all.Ĭut "upon which characteristic and peculiar tone principally depends" In fact, it would be another forty-four years - some twenty-eight years after Tolkien's death - that the complete "Lord of the Rings" saga would be fully realized on the big screen. Just changes that affected elements "upon which its characteristic and peculiar tone principally depends." Tolkien defended the integrity of his work with voracity, and put a stop to anything that undermined that integrity. "I would ask them," Tolkien wrote, "to make an effort of imagination sufficient to understand the irritation, and on occasion the resentment, of an author who finds, increasingly as he proceeds, his work treated as it would seem carelessly in general, in places recklessly, and with no evident signs of any appreciation of what it is all about." He wasn't opposed to changes to his text, though. But Tolkien, despite his satisfaction with early concept art and designwork, was furious with Zimmerman's script. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" for the silver screen. In 1957, Morton Grady Zimmerman tried his hand at adapting J.R.R. It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Blu-ray Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Blu-ray
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