The real creative test in adapting a masterpiece isn't craft—it's humility. The voice that whispers 'now it's mine, now the world needs to hear from me' is the one that ruins most adaptations. Jackson's team resisted it deliberately, with writers describing how every draft drifted closer to Tolkien, not further, and how copies of the books lay scattered across the set through production. Great source material deserves a servant, not an author.
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