Can the Eagles save the day again? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Sauron the White · 04-30-2008, 06:08 PM

In the film ROTK, hundreds of millions of people have already seen the Eagles come to the rescue of the forces of good and help save the day. In THE HOBBIT, the play much the same role at the end of the Battle of Five Armies. Putting aside the questions of being faithful and purity to the book, does the ending of ROTK render use of the Eagles in HOBBIT as problematic if not unusable? Does a filmmaker not risk hundreds of millions of people leaving the theater muttering that they seen that ending before?

04-30-2008, 06:08 PM	#1
Sauron the White Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 903	Can the Eagles save the day again? In the film ROTK, hundreds of millions of people have already seen the Eagles come to the rescue of the forces of good and help save the day. In THE HOBBIT, the play much the same role at the end of the Battle of Five Armies. Putting aside the questions of being faithful and purity to the book, does the ending of ROTK render use of the Eagles in HOBBIT as problematic if not unusable? Does a filmmaker not risk hundreds of millions of people leaving the theater muttering that they seen that ending before?