Quiz: Differences in Lord of the Ring Book vs. Movie

[YankeyMCC]

http://www.quizilla.com/users/MayitBe/quizzes/***Differences%20in%20Lord%20of%20the%20Ring%20Book%20vs.%20Movie***/

My Result:

****Wizard****
You have obviously tread the many intricate roads of middle earth and know the differences between the true story and Peter Jackson's adaption

[Book Lover]

1. I got the same result, but

weird that there was no info on what I had gotten right or wrong.

[MonkeyFunk]

4. yeah

I got the same result too, but wanted to see which questions I got right and which ones wrong.

Oddly, I guessed on many of the answers - I read the books once over 30 years ago.

[YankeyMCC]

7. I know that's a bit annoying

[EstimatedProphet]

13. Me too

Weird that it wouldn't be displayed.

[Dukkha]

18. i didn't expect to do that well either

if someone who really knows the answers post them so I can see what I got right and wrong

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. I sense many of us want to know the totally correct answers, so: Spoiler subthread

Like most of us (and those taking the quiz), I got 'wizard'. If we pool our answers, we may get the right ones (if Illuvatar feels like chipping in, that might help ...)

I said:

Which of these is in the movie but not in the book? Farmer Maggot chases hobbits off his land
Which of these eleves is in the book but not the movie? Gildor
When Frodo crosses the ford to escape the nazgul who is he riding with, if anyone (for the book and then for the movie) Book: Frodo - Movie: Arwen
All of these scenes the movie cuts out except for which one? Bilbo's birthday speech
Which of these scenes is implied but not described in the book, but is emphasized in the movie Boromir's death scene
Check all characters missing from movie
Tom Bombadil
Goldberry
Gildor
Mr.Proudfeet
Bill Ferny
Radagast

(ie everyone but Gollum)

I suspect that "Mr. Proudfeet" (sic - the joke is meant to be that he is Mr. Proudfoot, but in the plural they are meant to be called the 'Proudfeet') is the one I've most likely got wrong - I really can't remember if they put that in the film or not.

[IndianaJones]

2. My result: Illuvatar. nt.

[pokerfan]

8. I got Wizard

Illuvatar must be the highest score so I'm wondering what I missed.

[Reciprocity]

3. ****Wizard****

You have obviously tread the many intricate roads of middle earth and know the differences between the true story and Peter Jackson's adaption

[sarge43]

5. Wizard n/t

[ironflange]

6. Wizard!

I'm not even a real LOTR geek; read it twice, seen each movie once.

[Orsino]

9. Wiz!

Piece of cake.

[LaurenG]

10. ****Wizard****

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

I love LOTR

You have obviously tread the many intricate roads of middle earth and know the differences between the true story and Peter Jackson's adaption


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[pokerfan]

11. What was the most jarring change in the films?

No Old Forrest/Bombadil/Barrow Downs
Elves at Helms Deep
No Scouring of the Shire

There are many others but these are the ones that jump out at me.

[YankeyMCC]

12. In terms of Jarring

I would say the Elves at Helms Deep. That was the thing that jumped out. Perhaps because it was something Added instead of absent, the story is a rich and complex one but PJ selected Frodo getting the Ring to the mountain as The Focus so the absence of things like Bombadil and the Scouring didn't detracted from that more limited scope (whereas they do detract from the larger web of story and imagination JRRT created) and the Elves at Helm's Deep for me at least at once reminded me that the story I was seeing in the Movie was different and somewhat disconnected from the larger story of JRRT's mythology because they never would've been there in the context of that literary mythology.

But the absence of the Scouring of the Shire, or perhaps something that wasn't on your list, Sam using the ring, might be 'more significant' in terms of departure from the books but being absences there wasn't that 'jarring' realization while watching the movie that the 'addition' of the Elves had.

[pokerfan]

14. Even the absenses were jarring

When they went straight from the Shire to Bree, that was jarring. When Strider shows up and passes out the blades, I was already wondering what they were going to do with Merry, Eowyn and the Witch King since in the book, the hobbits get their magic "Westernesse" blades Bombadil rescues them from the Barrow-Wight.

Not trying to come down too hard on Peter Jackson here because no film can capture the depth of the novel.

But it's harder to justify leaving out entire segments when other segments are pure invention. The whole attack by the warg riders with Aragorn being swept over the cliff was a complete invention for the film. Never happened in the book.

[Reciprocity]

16. I don't have so much a problem about leaving out Tom Bombadil, as I do leaving out the Barrow Downs.

For those who read the books you may remember that it was in the Barrow Downs that Tom Bombadil gives each hobbit a dagger from the barrow-wight's treasure pile in The Fellowship of the Ring. This is significant because without the dagger Merry would not have broken the spell on the Witch-king of Angmar that allowed Eowyn to destroy him. There was a prophecy that “ not by the hand of Man shall he fall”

From ROTK...
"Out of the wreck rose a Black Rider, tall and threatening, towering above her. With a cry of hatred that stung the very ears like venom he let fall his mace. Her shield was shivered in many pieces, and her arm was broken; she stumbled to her knees. He bent over her like a cloud, and his eyes glittered; he raised his mace to kill.
But suddenly he too stumbled foward with a cry of bitter pain, and his stroke went wide, driving into the ground. Merry's sword had stabbed him from behind, shearing through the black mantle, and passing up beneath the hauberk had pierced the sinew behind the mighty knee.

<Snip>
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So passed the sword of the Barrow-downs, work of Westernesse. But glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago in the North-kingdom when the Dunedain were young, and chief among their foes was the dread realm of Angmar and its sorcerer king. No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will.
LOTR, ROTK chapter 6.


If Merry had not had the blade of Westernesse, the Witch-king would still be with us.
This sword was made specifically to kill the king of Angmar. This was before he became a wraith, I believe. Like Sting, this was a magic sword. His spirit still lived even though his body had long been dead. Only a magic sword was able to destroy the spell that held

The one thing Jackson did that I don't think anyone else could have done, was the environment the story was taken place in. The absolute smartest decision Jackson made in the entire movies was to hire Alan Lee and John Howe. Both have been artist of Tolkien's world for decades. And it was there art on the wall that inspired Jackson and Walsh as they wrote the screenplay for the movies. They were the driving force behind the look and feel of the movies along with of landscape of New Zealand. Because of there work I am able to overlook all changes to the story.

[pokerfan]

20. I guess they could have had the Barrow Downs without Bombadil

but for the sake of the movie, the blades they were given seemed rather ordinary.

As far as Glorfindel's prophecy that no man could ever defeat the Witch King, let us not forget Éowyn, like Merry, also not a man.

I've always interpreted it as Merry's blade of Westernesse breaking the spell, rendering him mortal for at least a time. Long enough for Éowyn to deliver the kill.

In the film, without the prophecy, without the magic blade, it just made the Witch King along with the rest of the Nazgul, rather pathetic.

[LisaM]

15. Not having the Scouring of the Shire SUCKED

I also missed Tom Bombadil, and Glorfindel. And I didn't like all the extra stuff with Saruman and Gandalf.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

21. Shelob's Lair

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the whole Shelob Lair scene in ROTK that was TOTALLY invented with Frodo turning against Sam because of Gollum's machinations, as well as Frodo throwing Gollum off the cliff. That....was....NOT.....in....the....book at all! That scene nearly ruined for me what was otherwise a great movie (the extended cut anyway).

[RevolutionaryActs]

23. The two things that I loathed; one, making Faramir into such an ass

And having him take Frodo and Sam back to Osgiliath. :banghead: That made me so mad, because I love Faramir so much(one of my favorites) and to have him almost take the ring goes against everything he is in the books! :o
And taking out the Scouring of the Shire, because that was so important for the whole story!


Re: the Elves at Helms Deep, at least it was a really cool fight scene! ;)

[pokerfan]

25. The movie wasn't kind to any of the lords of Gondor

Denethor was made loony from the start, with no explanation given. Like the fact that his mind had been poisoned by Sauron via a Palantir? In the book Denethor orders the becons lit, even before Gandalf and Pippin arrive. He also doesn't send Faramir and his company on the suicide mission.

In the TT extended edition there is a scene where Denethor was sent to Rivendell for the Council of Elrond and instructed to seize the ring and bring it to Minas Tirith. None of that happens in the book. It turns Boromir into some kind of double agent within the Fellowship and a much more sinister character.

And of course everything you already said about what was done to Faramir's character.

[Aristus]

17. I'm a wizard.

Funny, I almost got tripped up on the "implied but not seen scene" question. Then I remembered: both The Bakshi LOTR and the Jackson LOTR show Boromir's death scene, which the book only refers to in the past tense.

[Cobalt Violet]

19. Another Wizard checking in. n/t

[RevolutionaryActs]

22. I's a wizard! I's a wizard

go me, go me! :silly:

[Reciprocity]

24. One more quiz.

Who is your Lord of the Rings love match?

http://film.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,855242,00.html

Me.....
Who is your Lord of the Rings love match?
Faramir. You seek a man who is cultured, dutiful, and morally upright. A man who takes the trouble to clean under his fingernails. A perfumed dandy, in short. You're welcome to him

[YankeyMCC]

26. I don't have to take the quiz

Eowyn

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

27. Wizard

i wonder what i got wrong if there's an Illuvatar ranking


What pissed me most of was the the extensive use of of the Dimholt ghosts in the battle of Minas Tirith. In the Books they only seized the Ships and the Armies on the Ships consisted of ex-captives of the corsairs and people they picked up underways.

Also the Elves at Helms Klamm shoot in the same hole...

it shoulda have been the introduction of the age of men but the use of elves instead of the rallied remains of the westfold army and ghosts instead of the Forces of Anduin domains (i fumed) foiled the message.

I'd rather seen the humans fight than some deus ex-machina mop-up-mr. propper ghost army. It made the human effort to rally forces kinda pointless if the ghosts could beat Mordors army free of losses