Why LOTR Sucks: Waste Of Time

I’m going to be harping on this theme continuously, but when you are adapting three novels into 10 hours of screen time, you need to be efficient. Things have to be cut out, and in general I won’t complain about what’s been left out. But please, Peter Jackson, stop wasting our time. Do Frodo and Bilbo need to see wood elves leaving for the Gray Havens? Does that help us learn anything about the plot, or develop their characters in any meaningful way? No and no! Besides, it’s high elves that leave for the Gray Havens, so they didn’t even get the details right.

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