Reply To: LotR revisited – what Peter Jackson got right and what he didn't

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@onlyonepinman – The impossible ‘romance’ is by no means the only – nor even the main – thing I hate about PJ’s evisceration of The Hobbit.

It looks like we live in completely different universes in regards to ‘dating’, women or related subjects, I suspect I know why but let’s not go there, this is not the forum for that kind of discussion. Let’s just agree to strongly disagree, otherwise, we’ll just endlessly accuse each other of living in a fantasy world…..

@limburger – Maybe the reason why race mixing in fantasy games, novels and movies always seems to have a Human element is because all the authors are, of course, Human, and only very, VERY few of said authors have shown any kind of talent in regards to writing from a non-Human perspective. I can remember maybe a small handful of times I actually felt I was reading or viewing something from the viewpoint of an Elf, Dwarf or other non-Human character. In the hugely overwhelming majority of cases, it all reads Human…… For example, the Elf girl (whose name escapes me) in Dragons of Autumn Twilight (book 1 of the Dragonlance saga) talks and acts like a Human teenager, not a centuries old Elf. You could say the exact same thing about the Elf girl in PJ’s movies.

I cannot see an Elf/Orc pairing at all, but I’m sure onlyonepinman can.

 

@grantinvanman – I could tell you many things about ‘Captain Kirk’ and his ‘guide to women’, but this forum is, again, not the place for discussions regarding the agenda behind the TV- and movie industry.