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If I may point out that PJ is getting a 5% share of profits (roughly 100 million if the other two do as well). On the other hand, with regards to the movie and comparison with the book, they cannot be directly compared, due to the differences in medium. The main problem kensei has, I think, is that the medium of film has great shortcomings with regards to visualisation, i.e, that we are watching one person's interpretation of the book. Also, I'm sure that PJ would have done the whole thing if it had been possible. However, the movie would have been about seven hours long if they had put in sufficient material to develop characters etc. That means that the audience would have had to watch a seven hour film (because it would be very difficult to break up and still make it interesting enough to persevere watching). <BR>With respect to Arwen/ Aragorn, this is a great love story, but is not included in the main storyline (see appendix A). In order to make the love story (crucial to a story with few heroines) relevant, the film would have had to explain things in flashback or something.<BR>What I am trying to say is, films are never better that the book if the book came first (e.g. Jurrasic park, Pride and Prejudice) and that is a truth that is set in stone (for me). It is something that we just have to deal with. The film was great, but the book will always be better for me (14 times and counting), and the film has to cater for a market that has a short attention span.<P>P.S. I liked the interpretation of the awesome power of the ring at the start, well done. A good way of showing how Sauron, in full power, was overcome, but I would have liked to have seen Elendil and Gil Galad fighting Sauron rather than them just getting blown away.