[AlterEgo]

Пейн рассказал про их работу с TE. Он описывал им необходимость ужать временные рамки. И что же они ему ответили? Что это естественно для адаптации. Пуристам на заметку.

We took some events that happened over here, and some events that happened over here, and some events that happened over here, and sort of compressed them all in the timeline [gestures moving hands together]. And we worked very closely with the Tolkien Estate from the beginning, and said "Are you guys comfortable with us, you know, compressing this that much?" and they said "No we think it's essential that you guys do that". So that was a license we took that we, you know, we felt that some fans—superfans—might say, like "why did you do that?" And I'll say, you know, whenever goin' to do an adaptation, some things will be lost, but some things will also be gained. People'll always have the books, and you can always go back to the books and read the books, and enjoy and experience Tolkien in that way. And this is just another medium, one of many in which people have experienced Tolkien. And we see ourselves in a continuum of artists who've been adapting Tolkien for decades now.