• AFK BRB Chocolate
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      Yeah, I saw the image and thought it was going to be bad, but it’s not like you’d expect any of them to be exactly on the line. They all generally track - I don’t see any giant outliers.

      • @IMALlama
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        Tom Bombadil is probably the biggest omission - both the character and all tge activities that take place around their house. I remembered that sticking out to me when I watched the films for the first time, but at that point I last read the trilogy at least five years prior.

        • AFK BRB Chocolate
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          714 days ago

          Understood, but if you did this same graph for most books made into movies, they’d look vastly different. I mean, think of The Shining.

    • @MoonManKipper
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      Gimli was turned into the comic relief dwarf, which was a bit sad

    • metaStatic
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      Honestly surprised Legolas is over represented considering how much of a boner Tolkien had for him. But I guess everyone did, right.

  • @[email protected]
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    2614 days ago

    Good riddance, Tom Bombadil. I don’t care how merry a fellow he was, those were my least favorite chapters of Fellowship.

  • JackGreenEarth
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    Tom Bombadil was my favourite part of the book, and I was so disappointed when I realised that that part had been taken out of the film.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      This got me confused

      Why didn’t just Tom wear the Ring as he makes passionate love with his wife, so he can force Sauron to watch.

      Sauron, who is a virgin, who never had a gf and was dismembered and reduced to a giant eye by a fucking human would realize he is nothing compared to Tom, whose girth is beyond even Eru Ilúvatar’s comprehension.

      Wishing to die but unable to kill himself as he doesn’t even have a fucking hand to pull the trigger, he would order his orc armies to piss on him, so that the flames of his eye can be extinguished and his mind can be set free of Tom’s all encompassing girth. His spirit would be released to the boundless void that ripples and contorts with Tom’s mighty thrusts and he would find no solace.

      Edit: When Tom thrusts his final thrust and shoots a billion Bombadillos deep into Goldberry’s loins, the impact would shatter Sauron’s soul into a billion Saurodillos and he would be free. When this happens, not even the wisest can tell.

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      Was there a point to Tom Bombadil? All I really remember was that he helped the hobbits escape the. And I’m not even 100% sure about that. Also that Gandolf said he might go visit him at the end of the book. Was there some important part about it I missed?

      • RuBisCO
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        He could wear the one ring and remain unaffected by it, laughed at it even. Then he could make the ring vanish and bring it back at will.

        He seemed unconcerned by the war, almost as if he knew of and had seen wars greater and far more terrible. Yet he had chosen a side and was willing to provide what aid he could.

        He was Doolittle to all lifeforms, his songs tranquilized ancient evils, and he could be called upon at long range to swiftly respond.

        His very existence suggested fundamental mysteries about the world; old and powerful.

        Bombadil, moreso than Strider, was the embodiment of strong, old roots not withering, remaining out of reach of the frost. Old roots that could reason with willows and wights.

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          Thanks for the response. I remembered that he was older than time it seemed.

      • @IMALlama
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        Not that I remember, which is probably the reason why it was cut from the film. There is a lot of activity around him and the area around his house in the books, but it’s more side quest than main quest.

      • JackGreenEarth
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        It was just a relaxing, peaceful section of the narrative, which the film could have done with more of.

    • @adj16
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      The duality of fan

      • @shalafi
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        “I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of fan, sir. The Jungian thing, sir.”

    • @bramkaandorp
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      How else can you make it look like a linear grouping?

      • @[email protected]
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        214 days ago

        make it look like

        Data processing isn’t about making it look like something unless you are purposefully manipulating it.

        • @bramkaandorp
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          But that’s what happened here. The x-axis has been unevenly distributed.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because the point isn’t to compare 2 characters, but to see how one character performs in the books and in the movies.

      And for that, it doesn’t matter. But they could have used a bar graph instead.

      • @[email protected]
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        Well, I’d like to know if Arwen’s screentime/mention ratio is 2x or 3x that of the Frodo baseline. This arbitrary scale makes it impossible. It would not hurt to add more values to the axes, and perhaps a faint grid.

  • @BowtiesAreCool
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    I wonder if this is off the theatrical or extended and what the other might show.

  • Repple (she/her)
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    Biggest surprise to me is that Faramir has more mentions in the books than Boromir.

    • @trolololol
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      Are you saying Boromir should have died earlier? Dude!

      • Repple (she/her)
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        Not at all, I really like Boromir’s story, but that’s why I’m surprised. I feel like his development got a lot of attention, and even though Faramir was around for longer in the story, he never seemed quite as prominent to me. I guess that duration made up for the attention boromir got early on, though.

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    Gothmog gets screen time?

    Edit: nvm that’s the uruk general. I was thinking of Morgoth

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    I’m actually fairly ok with this, more or less what I would expect from a mainstream movie(s, and the fact that they are good is just a nice bonus).

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    A mention is not the same as an appearance, so the discrepancy for some characters could be even greater if you take that into account.

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    The balance of this doesn’t surprise me. The shift between book and film is quite heavily based on gender.

    The books were certainly much more male character based and the films evened it up a bit more. Although obviously still not even.