Lord of the rings movies vs. books

[The Skarzs]

C. S. Lewis (author of the Narnia series, as well as Tolkiens friend) actually thought Tom Bombadil should be removed because he seperated from the main plot. Tolkien insisted on having Bombadil in the books.

Awesome picture, Ize.

[BlueRose]

Omigosh yes! How cute!

[Jukka the Sling]

Revive!

With The Hobbit, I prefer the movies. With LotR (although I'm still reading TRotK), I prefer the books. Mostly. Some things I like better in the movies, like the condensing of timelines, the fact that Sam doesn't call Frodo 'Master,' the fact that Frodo doesn't call Sam 'lad,' and the fact that Sam and Frodo seem to be closer in age.

Also, Tom Bombadil is weird.

[Jetthebinturong]

With the Hobbit, I vastly prefer the book. I also prefer the LotR books to the movies. And yes, Tom Bombadil is weird but anyone powerful enough to consider the One Ring unimportant is awesome in my book

[Izeroth]

 Tom Bombadil is supposed to be wierd. Even the elves don't know what he is.

[The Mask]

Like Ize said, he's considered pretty widely to be an omnipotent god. But he is a pretty funny god.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

Valar of funniness?

[Delthion]

His wife I believe was supposed to represent the changing of the seasons.

[MeadowR]

I do so like the films ... haven't read the books in quite a few years, but books usually are better for being the 'original' and most immersive. I really need to re-read the books. I remember some parts were a bit drag-y, otherwise most readable.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

I liked the appendices in the ROTK book.

[White One6193]

The movies leave out Tom Bombadil too, but I think he's a fairly pointless character anyway  

YOU TAKE THAT BACK.

But seriously, though, I can understand why. He pops out of nowhere, does things with the Ring NODODY should be able to do, and then POOF disappears.

[The Skarzs]

Interesting characters add to the story nonetheless. (It is explained in the book why the ring has no power over him and how he is able to treat it like a normal ring, so I won't go into that here.)
Also, if one may notice, the style of writing has changed significantly over the past century, heck even in the past thirty years, so having someone pop in then out may have been the style.

[White One6193]

Interesting characters add to the story nonetheless. (It is explained in the book why the ring has no power over him and how he is able to treat it like a normal ring, so I won't go into that here.)
Also, if one may notice, the style of writing has changed significantly over the past century, heck even in the past thirty years, so having someone pop in then out may have been the style.

Not uncommon at all, actually. In Romantic era fiction (of which LOTR is arguably the last true example) , having a strange, powerful character show up, help the protagonist(s) and suddenly leave is a common mark of the genre.

[Tungro]

The movies were really cool and I heard the books were cool too.
I tried reading them twice now, but I guess it is just not the writing style I like. Maybe i'll write some big review later
(first try I got up to them lost in the forrest)
(second try I got all the way up the near the end of Bree)

[The Skarzs]

FINISH THEM.