Hoom.

[elwen]

While reading Fellowship of the Ring, I found the origin of Treebeard's line, that he says to Merry and Pippin in Two Towers when he thinks they're orcs. It's from "In the House of Tom Bombadil":

Tom's words laid bare the hearts of trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and strange, and filled with a hatred of things that go free upon the earth, gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning: destroyers and usurpers.

I didn't really think about it when I heard it in the movie, but now that I think about it, it's rather out of character for Treebeard to grow that angry, especially considering he was made more placating in the movie. Silly Jackson, trying to mix up the Old Forest with the Ents, when it is more akin to the Huorns. All more to make Treebeard look like a senile old tree. *sigh*

Comments

[blackrock.livejournal.com]

It sort of bugged me that they basically gave Treebeard's real lines to others and gave him different ones.

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

They gave Gollum an odd bit of slighty-rewritten verse from the Barrow Wight's curse, too. Quite weird, if you ask me. Like he doesn't have enough sppoky-sounding vrse of his own. It seems as though they still feel badly about cutting Tom Bombadil and they think that adding in random snatches of the narrative and dialogue from those chapters where they don't belong might make things better.

Root and twig, very odd. :)

[ctrl-a.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember reading your entry about the Barrow Wight verses. They bother me every time now. Plus Grima's lines to Eowyn. It's weird especially how he says them in sequence. Going from "caged wild thing" to "so fair" . . . very strange.