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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That does tend to be the case with books adapted to TV/film. Looking at you, Eragon and ATLA.

Tangent: LOTR is the exception imo, Peter Jackson and crew did a great job in adapting a fictional history tome into a movie. Getting rid of Tom Bombadil was a good move, despite him being so cool in the book.

I'll have to pick the books up and give them a read, I liked what little I saw in Wikipedia. Thank you!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No need for Tom in the movie, the movie viewer take his place as the out of time, out of place witness to the world.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When we watch the trilogy, we are all Tom Bombadil hehe

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

exactly ๐Ÿ˜Š