And he's still going at it.

http://youtu.be/p6ANfJskbmY

To be fair, those were two story parts you could cut without much impact on the rest of the story. And the Scouring of the Shire wouldn't really worked in the movie. Maybe as an extra (Which I thought they did for the extended version ?)

They did some screen testing for Tom Bombadil however, I wonder how it would have worked out in the movies.

+1

I was also looking forward to see the barrow-wights, although judging by the cheesy scene when Galadriel freaked out and was meant to be threatening, I can't be sure whether I'd have liked them. I guess this scene was my biggest problem with the movies. ;)

I think the Tom Bombadil story was one of the few parts that were more similar to the fairy-tale writing of The Hobbit and that might have been another reason to leave them out of the epic. Incidentally, all the parts that could also have been in The Hobbit are my favorites from the LotR books. :)

Its like wtf... lol

The Scouring is one of the most important parts of the entire book, though, for several reasons. While the hobbits were off gallivanting around, evil came to roost at home, which is sort of a mortal fear for adventuring types. Also, it's the first time that the hobbits do any real fighting (Shelob aside) without any big folk present. Plus they finally get to take command of a situation all by themselves. In a sense, it's when they finally finish growing up. So having them just come home and have a drink in the pub in the movies was saddening, especially since the movies were pretty decent in most other respects.

Downrepped? Hell no! :-D

Hehe, I sent it to one of my colleagues about a year and a half ago, and it suddenly caught on big time at work. We've been listening to it every friday since. Three of the guys at the office even have Trololo T-shirts.

If that was the screen testing, I'm glad he didn't make it into the movie. ;)

Indeed. Otherwise, I think they are actually great adaptations of the books, although I do disagree with quite a few of the decisions made. But the removal of the scouring of the Shire (which is pretty much the moral climax of the story, showing that the Hobbits can take care of themselves without the help of others), and the ridiculous "Hollywood Love Story" expansion of Arwen's character really piss me off.

I don't mind that Tom Bombadil is gone. He never had anything to do with the story anyway. I do mind that Merry and Pippin have had their back story pretty much butchered. They've gone from being intelligent, well educated, brave Hobbits who know exactly what they're getting themselves into, to a couple of ignorant hillbillies who stumble into the story completely by accident.

There is a bright side to it, you can clearly see hollywood trends there if you ever needed to write a paper or something on that :D

How come one can spend hours and hours watching this kinda stuff on Youtube, while the stuff one actually wants to see, never loads?

Up-repped because I've been trying to find that video!

I've never raged so hard at a Rick Roll before.

I only did it because Parvateshwar called it. I missed the whole Rickrolling thing when it was hip, so I have to make up ;-P.

Thanks to Vevo pre-roll adverts, I never even saw it.