Lord of the Rings-Return of the King question

[Victarion]

Um, yes, why did Sauron not return to his wicked armored form to fight the King? Also, there was supposedly footage of Aragorn fighting Sauron before the gates of Morannon, but looking at the map of middle eart, Morannon is a long way from Minas Tirith...

-Morzan

 

[Gilpesh]

Cause he didn't in the book and Peter Jackson is not a studio tool.

 

[AhabTheArab]

Cause he didn't in the book and Peter Jackson is not a studio tool.

word. purists rule.

 

[Gilpesh]

word. purists rule.

Besides when the purist makes a movie so long.... it can't even be contained on one dvd... that's annoying.

 

[DorkyFresh]

Um, yes, why did Sauron not return to his wicked armored form to fight the King? Also, there was supposedly footage of Aragorn fighting Sauron before the gates of Morannon, but looking at the map of middle eart, Morannon is a long way from Minas Tirith...

-Morzan

be quiet, it was in the script. t:





that's another way of saying 'suspend your disbelief'

 

[Victarion]

Just wanted to be sure I had those locations down.

 

[04nbod]

the books come with maps! they better get it right

 

[superkong 500]

Jackson himself explained that after they shot the scene they decided to not go that route because it would take the focus away from frodo's(which is really the main character) story and would turn into aragorn being heroic by fighting sauron. So instead they took the footage of aragorn fighting sauron and painted him out and replaced him with a troll and that would be aragorns heroic life throw away fight. Basically by doing this they where telling the audience this is not about aragorn being a hero and fighting sauron but about aragorn making a sacrifice and going against huge odds and confronting sauron's hordes in the Black Gates in order to distract sauron and his army from frodo and the ring.

I still think that having aragorn fighting sauron would have been cool but it would have stolen the spotlight from frodo and the ring. So jackson played it safe and decided to stick to the book. The footage of him fighting sauron looks cool, i would still love to see a future extended edition of the footage re-cut into the film just for the fun of it.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Well seeing has this has been answered, this post is only for +post count

 

[Reek]

why didnt Gandalf fight the Witch king is my question...after the witch king said "i will break him", then nothing. i wanted a badass fight between these too.

 

[Warhammer]

Because Gandalf would've whooped his ass.

 

[GreenKToo]

Because Gandalf would've whooped his ass.

Damn that was funny.t:

 

[Victarion]

Gandalf vs the Witch King was supposed to be a deleted scene on the EE or something.

The Necromancer that Gandalf referred to in The Hobbit was actually Sauron, so would it be safe to assume that during the events of the LOTR trilogy, Sauron had an actual physical body? Or did he possess a humanoid in The Hobbit?

 

[superkong 500]

Gandalf vs the Witch King was supposed to be a deleted scene on the EE or something.

The Necromancer that Gandalf referred to in The Hobbit was actually Sauron, so would it be safe to assume that during the events of the LOTR trilogy, Sauron had an actual physical body? Or did he possess a humanoid in The Hobbit?

I don't know but jackson and co originally planed to have sauron be a disfigured dark suited figure walking inside his tower but then it was left out in a favor of the eye all the time and having him be more of just a presence.

 

[Marvolo]

I don't know but jackson and co originally planed to have sauron be a disfigured dark suited figure walking inside his tower but then it was left out in a favor of the eye all the time and having him be more of just a presence.

I know that would have been a departure from the book, but that would have been awsome.

 

[Untilteld]

"The Lord of the Rings sucked ass, there's only one trilogy you ****ing morons"

 

[Gilpesh]

There is only one trilogy...

The Bourne Trilogy.

 

[Untilteld]

There is only one trilogy...

The Bourne Trilogy.

:escortshome:

 

[GreenKToo]

I love the LOTR trilogy. Its right up there with Star Wars (the original 3) for me.

 

[Victarion]

They're great. Thanks for answering my questions. Now could an afficionado of the books tell me if the Eye in the books was literally the giant eye, or if Sauron was indeed in a broken body and hidden in the tower, just using a method similar to the palantirs to watch the goings of his Ring?

 

[Untilteld]

I love the LOTR trilogy. Its right up there with Star Wars (the original 3) for me.

Phantom, Wars, and Revenge SUCKED

 

[Venomfan]

They're great. Thanks for answering my questions. Now could an afficionado of the books tell me if the Eye in the books was literally the giant eye, or if Sauron was indeed in a broken body and hidden in the tower, just using a method similar to the palantirs to watch the goings of his Ring?

there was no giant eye in the books. the first movie did it really well i thought, by only showing the eye i think when frodo put the ring on.

 

[GreenKToo]

Phantom, Wars, and Revenge SUCKED

I have to agree. Clone wars was the best of that three IMHO.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Revenge was good...the other two sucked.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Um, yes, why did Sauron not return to his wicked armored form to fight the King? Also, there was supposedly footage of Aragorn fighting Sauron before the gates of Morannon, but looking at the map of middle eart, Morannon is a long way from Minas Tirith...

-Morzan

I think it's because his material body was destroyed after the Ring was first cut from his hand. Only his spirit remained in the form of the Eye.