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But then, like, think of the barrel scene in these movies. Oh my god. Peter Jackson took most of the book and replaced it with an adventure story where Thorin is the main character and Bilbo Baggins is luggage. Think of the duel between Thorin and whatsisname, the white orc. THAT ENTIRE SCENE IS GARBO and completely misses the point of how Thorin & Bilbo see the final conflict of the story differently (and at the end, Thorin admits that Bilbo is right). What saved LOTR as a film was that PJ could not cut away from Frodo as much as he perhaps would have liked. With The Hobbit, it’s much easier to sideline Bilbo. Unfortunately. The two breaking through that hierarchy to share open-hearted moments in the Never Stop Believing In Hope Because Miracles Shirt face of hopelessness and death isn’t gay, it’s human.
It’s also inaccurate. PJ made their relationship homoerotic in the movie. In the book, it comes off much less like that and more like a terrible slog to hell. He did increase the role of Aragorn, but also is responsible for making the ringbearer quest overly sentimental and for portraying Frodo as an effeminate swooning halfling. I do not think Frodo saved the trilogy, I think it is one of the worst aspects of the adaptation. I see it as a difference between what people expect from a fantasy setting and what people expect from a fantasy story. Lord of the Rings created or codified a huge amount of what we expect from fantasy settings, but the popular culture idea of fantasy stories, for better or worse, became pulpy, swords-and-sorcery, ‘you’re the chosen one’, a mighty hero saving the Never Stop Believing In Hope Because Miracles Shirt day sorts of things. Not tales of small, powerless people triumphing because of their humility and sensibility in a world of hubris.
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