Why LOTR Sucks: Gandalf Loses Hope

Gandalf has always been the wisest and most hopeful. But Peter Jackson’s Gandalf suddenly loses hope at the exact moment when it seems like Frodo might actually succeed. The screenplay is horribly inconsistent in the way it treats the characters (unless they are women, in which case they are treated consistently poorly).

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