Yeah, I ended up getting to a bad place emotionally during the course of the movie. And I agree, part of this is a lack of agency pet peeve, but that's only part of this, and not really the major part. As I perceived it subjectively, the morality and anti-industrialism were what really upset me, although that may be shaped by annoyance about the rest.
It's hard to tell what the timing was. Prince Caspian was published in 1951, a few years before The Two Towers (1954), but of course the Lord of the Rings was developed over an extended period of time before its publication. So it is difficult, without a lot more research, to figure out how the cross-polination of ideas worked. Still, I think that my end conclusion is that the scenes in the movie version of the Lord of the Rings are cooler and work better for me than the similar scenes in the movie version of Prince Caspian. I haven't read the book of Prince Caspian in too long to comment on the written forms, and based on Orichalcum's assessment of the movie's honesty to the book, I don't much want to.
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It's hard to tell what the timing was. Prince Caspian was published in 1951, a few years before The Two Towers (1954), but of course the Lord of the Rings was developed over an extended period of time before its publication. So it is difficult, without a lot more research, to figure out how the cross-polination of ideas worked. Still, I think that my end conclusion is that the scenes in the movie version of the Lord of the Rings are cooler and work better for me than the similar scenes in the movie version of Prince Caspian. I haven't read the book of Prince Caspian in too long to comment on the written forms, and based on Orichalcum's assessment of the movie's honesty to the book, I don't much want to.