Kulturkampf

[PhoenixDark]

not from a lore standpoint but a moviemaking/storytelling standpoint, her scenes in TTT and ROTK do bring the story to a screeching halt when we really want to see what's going on with literally anyone else

if you're gonna have her marry aragorn at the end it's important to remind the audience she exists from time to time, but I feel like there could've been a better way

doesn't have anything to do with "omg a stupid female in my fantasy epic" and everything to do with wispy ethereal slo-mo for someone who is a hundred miles away not involved with the main quest, would be just as jarring if aragorn was gay and his gay lover Arwang was slowly dying

I definitely agree with this but my point is that Neckbeard Lore Guy doesn't care whether a scene worked from a moviemaking perspective or not. He's mad about any deviation. The recent LOTR stuff has kind of erased the fact that there were definitely hardcore book fans who didn't fuck with Peter Jackson at the time. First and foremost Christopher Tolkien but I definitely remember people on OneRing and other forums being mad about various stuff in each film. I know I clenched my first when Aragorn fell off that cliff in TTT. That shit was corny as fuck but audiences loved the drama lol.

It's funny that all this stuff gets historically erased to make way for either "woke" framing or "things used to be awesome when I was a child and are terrible now that I'm a man-child" framing. I remember plenty of ASOIAF fans hating on Game Of Thrones, even at the height of the show's quality and popularity. Today, the accepted framing is that GoT used to be amazing until Benioff and Weiss ruined it in the last 2-3 seasons. Yet I remember when book fans shitted on nearly every scene that wasn't in the books and enjoyed telling everyone how everything was more detailed in the books. Hell look at Star Wars and the way those loser nerds are trying to pretend like the prequels weren't universally panned and disliked by fans at the time (although the third movie got decent reception).