Also, no Hey dol! Merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!

:(

Yeah. Old Tommy was a real loss. And I would have liked to see the tree eat the Hobbits...

The director could have given them cloths. No real reason to cut Bombadil.

Adding Bombadhil would have added an extra hour on to the film to do him any justice at all, I'd rather they left him out completely (especially as that part is pretty much seperate from the rest of the story) than did him too quick or badly, and the film was long enough as it was... I think the films were as good as they could be, but then I don't go to watch a film adapted from a book (especially such a long and complex one) expecting it to be an exact replica of the book. The same goes for the latest Harry Potter movies, you can't expect a 500+ page book to fit into a 2 hour film without there being some cuts, and I honestly think the LoTR was pretty good considering the complexity of the task. Maybe if Tolkien had thought it would be made into a film some day, or if he had been here to oversee the adaptation, he would have written some things differently, who knows !

But this is a whole big discussion and nothing to do with greeting newbits, can we steer back to the main subject please ?

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?

The Watch(with Wizards close second) are my favourite group of characters in the series.

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)

Male. Over which there is no confusion at all :P

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?

23. Living in London, England.

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)

Faith? No. A lot of hope though.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?

My cousin showed me the Light Fantastic and Colour of Magic graphic novels when I was about 12 I think it was.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?

SQUEAK

SQUEAK* to you too Watchman !

*Welcome !

1) What formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
My surname's Stubbs. I threw the "y" on to look exciting...

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)
Hold on, I'll check.... Yep Definitely female

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
I'm 20, 21 on 12th April! And I am in *lovely* :? Kent, Medway to be specific. I'm not big enough to come from the whole of Kent :p

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)
I do think it could be done well, with the right choices, direction etc..

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
It was either my father or my uncle that recommended them to me. Can't remember which...

6) what's your personal quote of the day?

If at first you don't succeed, sky-diving's not for you

Yo Stubbsy.

I went to school in Medway. >ahem< Less said about that the better, i think

Hello Stubbsy.

Welcome, Stubbsy!

Hallo, Stubbsy! Love the quote.

Welcome, Watchman!

Hi, I'm Jennifer and I'm in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. I found TPratchett in my early 20's and have been rabidly collecting the books since :prayer: . As for Tolkien, I found his books in highschool I found with any kind of translation of medium there are always going to be problems....but Jackson, Walsh and Boyen(?) took the books and I think made the best possible movies with them. You have to admit that Tolkien gets ingredibly wordy, but that is his pervue as not only a writer but also a professor of languages at Oxford. His styles of writting are not suited for modern day screenplays....otherwise the movies just may have wound up being something close to 20 hours and be dead boring to boot. Right now my interest is seeing what they may have done to Beowulf and Grendel....... :?

Hello Watchman, Stubbsy and Jennifer!

Hi Jennifer/redjj ! I do hope you're not thinking of watching the beowulf movie that has Christophe Lambert in it, 'cos that film is probably the worst film ever !!!! If you like Beowulf... hell, if you like decent ACTING, do NOT watch it, or your eyes and ears will hate you forever !!!

ok here goes!

1: screenname is a play on a certain river which also shares a name with the production company that produced the alien movies.

2: Bloke

3: thirtysomething an' ah bide in Scotland

4: dont see why not - there are a lot of talented people out there who 'get' PTerry. [of course there are a lot of pondscum as well...]

5: in 1987 a mate gave me mort...still got it (the book that is) bought the rest

6: "I'll write it for 200 quid up front"

anyhoo this is my first post.
Cheers

Hi redjj and randywine!