Out of his fancy clothes might be nice, too. The Elfin Kree Pieman is A-OK to me…
Yeah, I realized after I posted that the clothes weren’t really necessary.
I don’t mind the way Peter Jackson depicted Radagast. I mind that he depicted him at all. The movies didn’t need him, as evidenced by the fact that the book didn’t, and the fact that the book was split into three movies is clear evidence that filler wasn’t necessary.
Add filler to your original source to expand it out to a couple of hours if necessary: That’s fine. Split up your original source into multiple movies if it’s too long as-is: That’s also fine. But don’t go and do both at once.
Sign me up! I’d love to see the trilogy squeezed down to something much closer to the book. First to be cut: the interminable running around by the Dwarves in Erebor in the second movie, including Thorin running across the jaws of Smaug. :: shudder ::
He’s also said to be interested in a remake of the British WWII RAF drama The Dam Busters, and another Tintin movie.
Agreed. I’d love to see a movie of the rise and fall of Numenor, as well. The last scene, of course, would be Elendil and his sons sailing east to Middle-earth with a seedling of the White Tree.
If not live action, I’ve long thought that all or part of The Silmarillion would lend itself to a Pixar-style animated movie.
Thus Saruman when he had descended far into the Shadow, but that’s not to say his view would be shared by all or even by many. Being held in contempt by Saruman, at that time, was on a par with being held in contempt by Sauron himself. The Wise, and maybe the common folk, saw things a little different.
Considering me and my friend used to call him “Rad! I Gassed! the Brown” when we were getting into the books back in the 80’s, the depiction Jackson uses doesn’t seem too bad.
Every time I start to take the fanboy arguments seriously, I read something like this. Even if I were grant that you are correct in all your observations, the idea that theaters should show a pretty cheap looking Rankin Bass cartoon as a “protest” just cracks me up. You take this stiff far too seriously. Yeah, I know, it’s a “joke” or “hyperbole”, but it really isn’t, is it?
Sauruman, at this point, is a notoriously poor judge of character, and would have regarded any wizard who ‘bothered’ talking to animals as simple and a fool, regardless of their actual merits.
Glad it’s almost over.
I’d like to see a good take on the Kalevala or Norse mythology.
No love for [url=“The Day the Earth Froze (1959) - IMDb”]The Day the Earth Froze[/irl]? 
A true classic, else it would never have been given the MST3K treatment!
I think that by that point, Saruman would have judged anyone who wasn’t Saruman as a simpleton and a fool, regardless of whom they talked to.
Having pushed on to the market the complete contents of his old man’s wastepaper basket Christopher Tolkien has little room to complain of any disservice by Jackson to JRR’s memory.
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I did say good take. 
Though I’ll settle for a Hollywood blockbuster take.