23 December 2021

Following my last blog of the 5 December 2021, where I talked about the mighty elf Glorfindel, I have had several people contact me to ask about other changes in the excellet Peter Jackson trilogy.

There are many and I am not going to go into them all here. The first was at the very beginning of the film, during the introduction where Sauron, with his ring, was defected by Isildur by cutting the ring from his hand. It was not like that in the books. The siege of Barad-dur lasted years and at the very end Sauron came onto the battlefield. He was engaged by two mighty warriors, the elf king Gil-Galad and the king of men Elendil (father of Isildur). These two heroes died in the conflict, but they greatly weakened Sauron to the point where we was close death (or as close to death that he could be). It was then that Isildur cut the ring from Sauron.

There were other changes, such as the removal of Tom Bombadil that I guess was made due to the already long film length. I would have been great to see the battle between Gandalf and the Nine on Weathertop, but again this was removed. Also Saruman's attack on the Shire!

In terms of what the film got right. For me they were absolutely spot on with Gandalf, Galadriel and Elrond. I also though they did a great job on the relationship between Legolas and Gimli, although it would have been even better if they had shown a little of their travels after the defeat of Sauron.

The Peter Jackson trilogy remains one of my favourite fantasy films.