Joe

It's certainly an aquired taste. Same with Tom Bombadil. But I'm thinking more about Faramir. He resisted temptation in the books, let Frodo leave without dragging him all the way to Osgiliath. Of course, Jackson couldn't go straight from Helm's Deep to Cirith Ungol. Tolkien never interwove the two plots, we had half a book's worth of buildup to Shelob. So I suppose what I'm asking is, why he saw the need to interweave them so much?

Enigma X I agree with you too. Also, as a writer myself, I understand the appeal of trying something new, changing something to fit the new vision. But at the same time, I just don't enjoy Jackson's LOTR or Game of Thrones, though I love the books. I feel that something has been lost in the making.

TheGongOfDoom I take your point about adaptions, but a lot of the time I find that things have gone downhill. It was better in the original text. If you can't bring things to the same level, or even improve them, I have to ask why bother doing it in the first place?

Hi, all. I'm FoolishWanderer over on TWOP, but I came to really dislike that name. I go by Joe in real life, it's good enough for online. I fully expect to post here as often as I ever did over there. :) And it's good to see some familiar names.

Yes, she really got the worst sendoff. Really, what was RTD thinking? Oh, let's undo all her character development.