[DarkRose]

I beg to differ, <B>keverzwijn</B>.<P>There are scenes that I feel would not effect the understanding of the FOTR plot if they were removed. <P>(I know these scenes happened in the book, but if the movie had to be made shorter, they could have been taken out.) The watcher of the water in front of Moria could have been taken out of the movie, and I bet people would've still understood the plot. The giant octopus thing just adds a bit to the danger of the quest. Its an added action scene that could have been removed.<P>Also, the scene of the Fellowship journeying over Cahadras (the blizzard-whipping mountain) could have been removed. As I see it, it did nothing to add to the vital points of the plot. Sure, it did show that the company had to journey under the mountain instead of over it. However - earlier, when Gimli tried to persuade Gandalf to go through the Mines of Moria, they could have done the whole "let the Ring Bearer decide" thing then.<P>See what I'm getting at? Not every scene in the movie, to me, was truly necessary.