Tid, pacing och berättande fokus
Citera från en 2000-ish intervju med Är det inte coolt nyheter 1 :
"Also, will you be including Tom Bombadil? The Ralph Bakshi production cut it out, as did the BBC radio drama.”
PJ: At this point in time Bombadil is out. The main reason is not just time or pace, but one of simple narrative focus ... the Bombadil sequence has so little to do with Sauron or the Ring, it is difficult to justify the screen time. It simply doesn't give us any vital new information. A very simplest rule of thumb that I use in movie storytelling is to try and further the story with each new scene.
I'm flicking through our Fellowship script ... it is 138 pages long. The Hobbits leave Hobbiton on page 30, and arrive at Rivendell on page 63. Even that 33 pages on the road feels a little long and will probably get trimmed in our next draft.
Jackson trodde i grund och botten inte att Bombadil avancerade berättelsen nog för att motivera att spendera ytterligare 30 minuter till en timme på honom, vilket är en rättvis bedömning . En del av Bombadil-kapitlen överlevde emellertid, även om de infördes mycket senare i berättelsen och avlägsnades från den teatraliska upplagan. en scen helt klart baserat på mötet med Old Man Willow filmade och inkluderades i den utökade upplagan av The Two Towers , men med Frodo och Sam uppenbarligen frånvarande och Treebeard räddade:
EndelavTreebeardsdialoghärtasdirektfrånBombadilidenursprungligascenen(betonarmin):
Setting down his lilies carefully on the grass, he ran to the tree. There he saw Merry’s feet still sticking out - the rest had already been drawn further inside. Tom put his mouth to the crack and began singing into it in a low voice. They could not catch the words, but evidently Merry was aroused. His legs began to kick. Tom sprang away, and breaking off a hanging branch smote the side of the willow with it. 'You let them out again, Old Man Willow!' he said. 'What be you a-thinking of? You should not be waking. Eat earth! Dig deep! Drink water! Go to sleep! Bombadil is talking!' He then seized Merry's feet and drew him out of the suddenly widening crack.
The Fellowship of the Ring Book I Chapter 6: "The Old Forest"
IntressantvarBombadilmedidetfilmlicensieradetradingkortspelet:
MentaintedettaförattbetydaattdetfinnsnågrahemligaTomBombadil-bildersomliggerrunt;enligt en artikel publicerad på Deciphers hemsida (som producerade spelet), Bombadil är en original bild- och karaktärsdesign skapad av Weta Workshop, speciellt för handelskortet:
Decipher announced today that Weta Workshop, the Academy Award-winning special effects studio responsible for creating many props and special effects used in New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings films, will create unique photographic images that will be featured on cards in The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game.
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The first four cards to feature Weta's original images are bonus premium cards from The Countdown Collection: Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, Radagast2, and Glorfindel.
1 Med stor tacksamhet till Wayback Machine
2 Spelas inte av Sylvester McCoy, alarmerande prescient som det skulle ha varit