• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    No it wouldn’t, you just need to cut out the stuff Jackson added to make the movie more mainstream.

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      8 months ago

      Movie adaptations need filler, the books themselves would be the length of the Jackson movies but wouldn’t play well to audiences. That’s just how it works it’s why you have to look at movies separately from their books.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Oh sure, I’m only saying if the movies followed the books, the movie wouldn’t be ridiculously long. It’s only long because Jackson added extra stuff that wasn’t in the books.