The movies were horrid distortions of the ethical center of the books. I hate how many people now think that the movies are even close to representing the books. In several ways the movies reverse the books: the focus on battles, the unscoured Shire, Eowyn’s pursuit of glory in the battlefield, the mercy on Gollum being treated as stupidity—the moviemakers utterly failed at representing almost every single moral point.
And here was my response to his comments.
The movies were horrid distortions of the ethical center of the books. I hate how many people now think that the movies are even close to representing the books. In several ways the movies reverse the books: the focus on battles, the unscoured Shire, Eowyn’s pursuit of glory in the battlefield, the mercy on Gollum being treated as stupidity—the moviemakers utterly failed at representing almost every single moral point.