[Annantar]

I personaly think that Tolkein would be insulted in many ways (not about everything), but the people that made the movies, in my opinion, made it a little harder to love middle earth, and it's characters. Like in the FotR movie, they replaced Glorfindale with Arwen, and Arwen wasn't even really in the book,it MENTIONS her like 3-4 times. Although the movie did make a beautiful love story out of it. <BR> But, When I 1st read the 2 books (fotr & ttt,) I was only 12, and I didn't quite understand what Middle-Earth was. But when I saw the movie, I understood a little more who each character was and the setting and so on...., and then when I got to the RotK, after I saw the 1st 2 movies, I could easliy understand it more. But If I were to have read the books right after I saw the movies I would have been extra confused because of the many mix-ups that they felt necessary to put in there (like the Arwen/Glorfindale mix-up). So I quess that it made the book easier to understand (in very few ways), but not necessarily better. Reading the books right after seeing the movies, would have gave too many surprises.<BR> Long story short, it's a wonderful movie, but would be better if the book didn't excist. But since the book does, the movie gives mixed feeling and understanding of the 3 books.<BR> Thanx, Annantar.