May 11, 2002

Re: Arwen vs. Glorfindel
Cathrine

Well i agree they shouldn't have cut Glorfindel out of the movie, there are a few reasons they did.

One: in today's society they needed to enhance Arwen's role in the movie. I think the makers thought that some women would think that the movie had been sexist if they didn't enhance her role. I know if people had read the book they would know that's how it was written, but many people didn't even know that there was a LOTR book series until the movie came out.

Two: The makers were forced to cut out much of the happenings in the book because of length. The time it would have taken to introduce Glorfindel's character so that the hobbit's would have been walking down the road with him would have taken not very long but a kind of long amount of time. Most people that i've talked to that have seen the movie, complained that the movie was already too long.

Well this was a disapointing cut from the movie, some would say it was neccesary.