[Diamond18]

Like I said in my last post, you have the huge battle of Helm's Deep, and that's a big climax. To have the audience settle back down and get geared up for another plotline would be impossible. I'm actually rather thankful that Shelob is in RotK, now that I've seen TTT, because I fear her episode would have been as rushed and hectic as Faramir's was. I'd rather wait a year and let PJ take time for that scene in the beginning of the movie rather than watch it crammed onto the end of an already crowded picture.<P>I know where you're coming from, Doug, with the Choices of Master Samwise being a good end. I was literally bleary eyed because I tried to read through the first half of RotK really fast so that I could finally read about Frodo and Sam. And I was reading a one volume edition. I can only imagine the plight of 50's era readers.<P>But I think the only way to do TTT complete justice would have been to make it two movies: one centering around Rohan, Helm's Deep, Fangorn, and Isengard, and then another about Frodo and Sam. But since that didn't happen, the movie turned out...well, you know how it went. A bit haphazard and "hashed". I think the relocation of Shelob was rather inevitable, in this case, because Frodo's journey has to share screen time with Aragorn's.<P>So look at it this way. Instead of them doing a sub-par, rushed version of Shelob at the end of TTT, they will perhaps put lots more time and work into leading Frodo and Sam from Ithilien to Her Lair this way. They'll still have to cut back to Aragorn and Co., but this will be in the beginning while the audience is fresh, not at the end when they're "worn out" by Helm's Deep.<P>That's my hope, anyway.<p>[ January 04, 2003: Message edited by: Diamond18 ]