That's the same feeling I was trying to describe in a comment above:
Watching this all, though... what I really feel between this and LOTR is the lack of depth in the cause. Both are very clear-cut good against evil, with a light side and dark side which are each at the extreme. However, in LOTR there was all this middle ground, this gray area. There were the races neither human nor elf, and there were the constant themes of human greed and good-intentions-gone-wrong that undercut the out-and-out heroism stuff. We get some of that with Edmund and Tunmus, but in Middle Earth it's not just a few-- every person has the capacity to be a force of good or ill, and several go back and forth or toe the line.
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Date: 2006-07-28 06:53 pm (UTC)Watching this all, though... what I really feel between this and LOTR is the lack of depth in the cause. Both are very clear-cut good against evil, with a light side and dark side which are each at the extreme. However, in LOTR there was all this middle ground, this gray area. There were the races neither human nor elf, and there were the constant themes of human greed and good-intentions-gone-wrong that undercut the out-and-out heroism stuff. We get some of that with Edmund and Tunmus, but in Middle Earth it's not just a few-- every person has the capacity to be a force of good or ill, and several go back and forth or toe the line.
Everything felt too controlled.