Quote Originally Posted by boozeboxer View Post
So I finished watching the trilogy tonight, and I thought it drug on a bit. It could have been summed up in two movies.
And I thought the blond chic (the king that died in the last battles daughter) would have been a better fit for Viggo than LIv Tyler.

And why the hell did frodo drag up and go on a boat ride at the end? and why didn't they take Bilbo Baggins on the eternal boat ride before he was an old crusty fucker?

Any thoughts?
It is not that clear in the book but if I got it well, the boats loaded with elven all go within a couple of months, by this time, Bilbo is already old. In the book though, they do not depict him as somebody senile or anything and in the movie he looks a bit coo-coo at the end. As for Frodo, they do bring him as a gift for the very dangerous mission he got stuck with (the ring) and because after the wound he received, he would be stuck forever with a part of "mordor" in him, which doesn't belong to the mortal world at all.

My question toward the lord of the ring has always been this: WHY ohhh why dince the beginning they didn,t think about loading the eagle king with Frodo, Sam, the ring and a huge keg of booze, make him ride the sky escorted by the other eagles speedlight and drop the stupid ring from the airs in the volcano? Sounds easier than cross the whole world, including the MOria, by feet and that to have to fight armies of evil men, orcs, storms, devils etc, no? Plus it is much faster

Still, Tolkien did the hell of a job with this literature masterpiece, I just always wondered about that very question.