February 18, 2002

Questions That Need Answers
Jobu

I've got a couple of points that I know some knowledgeable people out there could respond to:

1. The river is flowing the wrong way. They are obviously on the west bank and yet the river flows from right to left on the screen. Isn't the Anduin a south flowing river?

2. I heard there's a car in the movie - where?

3. When will the Petty Dwarves make their appearance in the movies?

4. Some people have claimed FOTR is racist because there are no minorities represented. Does every movie have to have some contrived mix of races to avoid this stigma?

5. I thought all the actors in the movie were great, expecially Sean Bean and Ian McKellan, except Christopher Lee. He's too old and he looks too evil. Saruman was supposed to be charasmatic ...

6. In TTT the book, there are some interesting verbal exchanges between Saruman's orcs, the Mordor orcs and the Moria orcs. The orcs that were represented in the FOTR could barely manage to grunt - especially the fabricated Lurtz. I think PJ needs to add more 'personality' to the orcs...

That is all.