Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.
Physicist: inelastic scattering event.
Oh, I think it’s pretty elastic.
If it were elastic, there wouldn’t be a baby! Elastic scattering is said to be the greatest source of infertility in the US.
Ooh, this could be a fun game. Tax advisor: capital gains, to be offset by future deduction opportunities. (But I am not a tax advisor).
The geologist’s explanation sounds like Michelangelo’s technique for carving David: “I just chipped away everything that didn’t look like David.”
IT Tech Support: a one-off unexplained glitch. Try turning it off and back on.
Say what? As I recall, Jackson had not even read the book when he started the film project. He said he tried to but found the book “boring”. I think he read it later. (To me, his contempt for the book is vividly evident in the film.)
That is absolutely not true.
The factual bit. I’ll allow your opinion, of course, even if it’s wrong. 
I stand corrected. Jackson says he did read the book, but was not an “avid fan”, contrary to Chronos’s statement.
“I read ‘Lord of the Rings’ first as a 17-year-old,” Jackson told Variety . “I wasn’t one of those avid fans who read it every year.
Chronos just said he was a fan, which it sounds like he was if he read the books as a teenager.
Philippa Boyens was the über-fan in the LOTR writer’s room (not sure about Fran Walsh) and even she was only an every-few-years reader. Jackson’s talking about your Qadgop-level fanperson, there.
I take a slight quibble here - he’s clearly only talking about sedimentologists and geomorphologists as though they were all geologists. Other flavours of geologists might favour differential fractionation and aggregation in a confined chamber or … something about two large tectonic bodies colliding but make it sound lewd… I don’t know, I’m not a writer.
On set, when he was there, Christopher Lee was their go-to guy, having read the trilogy almost every year since it was published.. I doubt even he was a QtM-level scholar, though.
In a world where movie makers slap on a title stolen from a book when their lawyers realize that their creative new project is a little too close to a classic (or their marketers realize that they could have a hook for their ads), I think “contempt” is a bit strong to attribute to someone who actually intended from the beginning to film “The Lord of the Rings.” But this is a matter of opinion of course
Prolix horny outdoorsy couple:
“MOIST GROUND LEVEL TURBULENT MIXING”
This.
If Peter Jackson truly had contempt for the books he would’ve accepted the proposals to do the whole thing in only one or two movies and not invested the effort he invested in getting it right.
What is true is that sometimes the effort was not enough because PJ missed some things about the books, he seems to me be a bit of a surface thinker, some deeper themes and subtleties completely pass him by.
There is this:
Some say that fans that suction you “down” (even if down is above you) are kind of cheating and that only spoiler downdraft should count. I personally don’t mind fans.
Here’s the thread about the attempt I mentioned, and a bit of poking around doesn’t show any updates since a year and a half ago. It looks like the big expense that’s catching them isn’t the car itself; it’s building the track.
Rule 34