Lord of the rings

[quattro]

Ive just been to see the final Lord of the Rings film the Return of the King and wondered what happened to the character played by Christopher Lee as he was in the first two films and I can't remember him getting killed was it to do with the plot or was it something more sinister?

[LeMarchand]

Chris Lee's scenes were cut to keep the running time down, but will be in the Extended Edition DVD.

[dog&duck]

is it just me or does anyone else think that the 3rd film was total rubbish?

[Greedyfly]

I thought the third was better than all three - and I hated the first two anyway!

[Caladon]

lotr rubbish? HEATHEN! lol they were very well made films which stuck very closely to the books (am i the only englishman to have read them?!). yes there were errors, like casting a limp actor elijah "cry baby" wood, but not many. unofficially christopher lee's parts were cut from the film because it is alleged he leaked information to the media about the 3rd installment of the trilogy, though his part will be in the extended version

[LeMarchand]

I thought the third film was great!

[andas]

I dont know why Christopher Lee, part was cut, but the trilogy was truly remarkable, and the the return of the king was the crown jewel of all the 3 films !!!!!

[Squirrel]

They were right to cut certain bits out, but I would have much rather seen the lengthy ending cut down than have a significant part of the story omitted. It was still excellent, though.

[gerry]

I thought the 3rd movie was far better than the second 1.

[Caladon]

the ending did have to be the length it was. the last half of the 3rd book consists of ending, family trees, logs, people, events etc. it is most complex, and it does tell of how they all ended up after the ring was destroyed and they rid the shire of saurmon and wormtongue (chapter Scouring of the Shire...not in the film for obvious length reasons). did sam marry the barmaid? what happened to merry and pip, what happened to bilbom, gandalf and the last of the elves etc, all important characters and their fates

[BadBob]

I think I must disagree Caladon, I think it could have been much shorter and most of the end after the ring had been destroyed was not needed, at least not in as much detail, did we need 10 minutes of hobbits hugging and crying before frodo got on the boat. Is it really important to know what happened to these characters, no because unless you keep going on constantly you will never know. For example what happened to sam's children, where was the boat going, what happened when the boat got where it was going etc etc etc. Just think it went on a bit too long (a bit like this). And the bit where they were climbing up the volcano dragged on far too long. Great film none the less.

[incitatus]

caladon must have read a different LOTR to me. The scouring of the shire was an essential part of the intent of the book. But as the intent of the book was sacrificed right from the start in this trilogy of hollywoodised epics, one cant be too surprised. By halfway through the second I was ranting at the screen

[violaine]

The reason Saruman was cut was due to issues of plot and running time of the theatrical release of the film. But Christopher Lee said on live TV back in November that he was shocked at hearing his scenes were all to be cut and sounded a bit upset about it. I guess that's understandable given that it was a life long dream of his to be in a film of the book, and the conclusion of his character arc being cut from the theatrical release was bound to be a bit hurtful. I don't know if things are OK again between him and Peter Jackson; I hope they haven't fallen out over it, that would be such a shame after the work they did together on the film and CL's long term history with LOTR as well. Personally, I would much rather have had the Saruman scenes in the theatrical cut and tied up his character arc, than a few of the scenes which did make it to the final cut, such as most of the elf-centric scenes which I thought were quite poorly put together (I liked the expansion of Arwen's character in FOTR, but the elf scenes in ROTK made me cringe). But overall I thought ROTK was still a very good film, particularly the last hour which was fantastic.

[Tapirman]

I would have preferred they kept Lee's scenes in and trimmed down the slightly dull ending......I remember a lot of the people in the cinema fidgeting during the slow closing scenes.

[bobhopeless]

im in two minds over rotk ive read lotr about 9 times and find the book and the film both have flaws its a hard one to call . i think the cutting of saruman was unforgivable as was the scouring of the shire , but te exclusion of bombadil was a good call and the king of the dead was captured perfectly until it went pear shaped at the great battle at minas tirith sorry mr jackson the dad where left behind and prince Imrahill saved the day with Aragorn ) I suppose you could go on for ever and a day but being a tolkien fan i feel justice was done to the epic scale of the book and that the job of trimming down a book the size and scope of the bible was aalways going to be a tough call .lst comment...bah humbug for Jackson allowing a personal feaud with chris lee to ruin an other wise brilliant film.

[sexy_bef69]

Are you crazy?! Lord of the Rings is the most amazing set of films in the world! Frodo, Aragorn and Faramir are just beautiful.