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Post #617633

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Akwat Kbrana
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The OT.com J. R. R. Tolkien & Middle Earth Discussion Thread
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Date created
4-Jan-2013, 9:38 AM

@ Akwat. I've always wanted to do an edit that follows the book chronology of events. Did you do that in yours?

Naw, I considered doing something like that but it's already been done (by Kerr), with mixed results IMO. Some of the installments work well, but others just drag (especially the Frodo-Sam stuff after the breaking of the fellowship). So I stuck with the narrative flow established by Jackson & Co. as a base, and edited it as necessary. Certainly not as novel an approach, but more watchable I think. (No disrespect intended toward Kerr, BTW. He's an extremely gifted faneditor and as a book fan I thoroughly enjoyed watching his edits...I just don't think, cinematically speaking, that particular approach works.)