[HCIsland]

I gotta agree. I know there was the extra comedy, but any changes to Gimli (good or bad) pale in comparison to Faramir, Aragorn or Frodo.<P>And I liked Treebeard in TTT and likely the thing I'm looking forward to the most with the special edition is seeing more of him and Merry and Pippin in Fangorn. I better not be disappointed on this count. <P>I'm sure you are referring to the result of the entmoot. I think this was a device to get us to see the destruction of the forest and Treebeard's reaction to it. To make it very clear to the viewer that this is the reason the Ents are going to war (which it was). <P>One can certainly make the argument that it would seem odd Treebeard not having known about this before but all in all, in my opinion, it worked.<P>H.C.