But Pippin’s like, Hi, how are ya?’ when most people would be surprised or shocked. According to Billy Boyd, “Merry and Pippin meet in a field way out of Hobbiton, which would be like Dom and I meeting up in Paris. Pro: Perhaps this is to better acquaint the audience with their characters early on in the films. Merry does not rejoin with the other three hobbits until Farmer Maggot drives them to the ferry, after their encounter with a Black Rider. No mention is made of other hobbits stealing any of Maggot’s crops. Farmer Maggot is known for growing mushrooms, which Frodo, while a young boy, stole from him. The three hobbits who are walking to Hobbiton do stop at Farmer Maggot’s farm along the way, who welcomes them and treats them to a meal. The two vegetable thieves decide to join up with Frodo and Sam as a way of escaping Maggot’s wrath.īook: Frodo, Sam and Pippin leave the Shire together, while Merry rides off in a wagon to set up Frodo’s home in Crickhollow. “you’ve been into farmer maggot’s crop! ”įilm: As Frodo and Sam leave the Shire, they run into Merry and Pippin, who have stolen carrots and vegetables and are being chased by Farmer Maggot. He never appeared to be so bedraggled and panicky. For the movies, we will have to make motivations a little tighter and more urgent.”Ĭon: Gandalf was a being of great dignity and composure. Pro: According to Peter Jackson, “one of the biggest problems with adapting the books – Tolkien gave his characters a fairly leisurely journey – I don’t mean the length of the journey, but rather the lack of dramatic tension, especially pre-Rivendell. He puts off the discussion of the Ring until later, after a pleasant breakfast the next morning. When Frodo arrives home, the wizard startles him by reaching out of the darkness and grabbing Frodo by the shoulder, urgently asking, “Is it secret? Is it safe?” Gandalf looks haggard and alarmed.īook: Gandalf knocks at Frodo’s front door and finds the hobbit at home. “ Film: After reaching the conclusion that Frodo’s ring is indeed the One Ring, Gandalf returns to Hobbiton but finds Frodo is away. Note: Both the BBC radio production and Ralph Bakshi’s animated adaption began with a similar prologue. Ĭon: According to Ian McKellen, the filmmakers decided at one point to do away with the prologue because, to Sir Ian’s relief, a “prologue, with its stash of names and facts, can unnerve audiences.” Prod: The story needs to relate a lot of background information, and the filmmakers decided that the prologue could do that in a quicker and more exciting way than the various conversations between characters scattered throughout Fellowship of the Ring. Galadriel’s voice-over dialog was written for the films and does not appear in Tolkien’s writing. (This prologue was originally to have been narrated by Frodo, until the filmmaker’s realized that the hobbit would know too much about the ring too soon in the story.)īook: These events, most occurring some 3000 years before the main story of The Lord of the Rings, are merely discussed by the books’ characters. Film: The film opens with a prologue, narrated by Galadriel, showing the forging of the rings of power and the One Ring, the Battle of Last Alliance of Elves and Men, Isildur taking the Ring from the fallen Sauron, Isildur rejecting Elrond’s demand that he destroy the Ring, Isildur’s death and losing the Ring in the Anduin, Gollum finding the Ring, which is later found by Bilbo.
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