they gave Arwen one additional scene that in the books went to a rando character (Glorfindel) who only exists for that scene
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and the fans still got so pissed bc Glorfindel is a Hero of the First Age who was reincarnated in a time of great news and
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so to compensate Arwen spends the next two movies in a kind of coma
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I really gotta say - I think Tolkien just having her not be there was better than the movie lovingly watching her slowly die
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funny thing is this isn't a new criticism, contemporary reviews of LotR were savage af
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not in a feminist way but in a 1970s snark way. "This is a story for boys who are still uncomfortable around girls"
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there was one review of LotR when it came out that was unequivocally positive and it was by CS Lewis
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