Christopher Tolkien is not a fan of Peter Jackson
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I actually agree. That whole sequence really wouldn't have translated well into film, but it was very important to Tolkien, and his son clearly didn't like that a lot of the slower, less action-oriented elements of the story were excluded from the films.
How long was the full, uncut trilogy again? 10-11 hours? Even more? I definitely saw that there were lots of other scenes filmed that had the same issue- it didn't progress the story, and whatever character building it did was insignificant. "Acceptable time constraints for an audience" is a real bitch.
Should have been a hexalogy like the books.
They already had the actors, sets, costumes. How much extra would it have cost to sit Gandalf down and have him read some poems and crap on set during lunch? Or improv some Bombadil on a green screen so the banshee and barrow could be filled in later.
I'm sure they knew many of the deleted/director cut scenes were never going to be seen in theater before they filmed them so I feel like there's a lot more they could have done with the intention of it only appearing in the 50 hour paint-drying release.
The extended editions clock in at just over 12 hours for the whole trilogy.
Or maybe its importance flew over your head.