the hobbit

Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro have decided to write the screenplay for The Hobbit with Fran Walsh (not frank as the article names her) and Philippa Boyens, who adapted LOTRs with Peter Jackson. Yay! This is very good news.

I really really really hope that they don't make as many changes to The Hobbit as they made to LOTRs. I love the movies, but I still can't help but watch them thinking "Why did they change that???" so many of the changes they made were unnecessary and completely opposite of what happened in the book. I understand making changes to make the story fit into a movie time-limit, but come on. Frodo did not need to send Sam away in ROTK. There was no need for them to go to Osgilith with Faramir. Faking Aragorn's death in Two Towers was just silly. I understand they needed a way to let Theoden know that the Uruk-hai army was coming to attack Helm's Deep, but a scout could have given them that news. Tolkien was a very deliberate writer, his Frodo would never have sent Sam away. His Faramir would not have been so easily swayed by his father's wishes to bring the ring back to Minas Tirith. Aragorn, while mortal, would not so easily be killed by a stupid orc on a warg.

ok, enough nerding out for today.