[GreatWarg]

Well, it's PJ's interpretation of the book as he sees it, and all of what he considers the most important points. But he does leave out all fo the feeling in it that it has in the books. For example, the great friendship between Legolas and Gimli. He totally leaves that part out, and it just seems like they're on neutral grounding. It would seem different to a person who has read LotR than opposed to a person who has never read the books.<P>The love story behind it plays a far greater role than it did in the book, and in the movie Elrond seems more opposed to Men than he did in the book. Aragorn was trusted by Elrond more in the book, and very dear to him, almost like a son, but in the movie they don't even mention anything about Aragorn's past. <P>The way the Council of Elrond worked was not very true either. PJ failed to tell the coincidence in which all of the people arrived at the same time, and PJ seemed to make it look as if they were purposely called there. Boromir's attitude was different in the movie also. In the book, Boromir is of noble heart and is forever faithful to his people, but in the movie, they make him seem selfish and greedy for power.<P>In Lorien, PJ never wholly mentioned the way the power of the Ring that Galadriel help kept Lorien in its majesty of the Eldar Days, and never fully created the picture of how important celeborn was. Celeborn's role was so small in fact, that he wasn't even in the movie for more than 3 minutes! According to the book, Celeborn helped plot a route for the Fellowship.<P>And the Fellowship itself was ill-described in the movie as well. Gimli and Legolas are just pretty-boy backgounds, Boromir is corrupted totally by desire for the Ring according the PJ, Aragorn doesn't even seem totally endeavoured to the Ring or the Quest or seem to play any part in the leadership of it, and Gandalf seems to be the complete skeleton of the Fellowship. The hobbits are even lesser than their book counterparts in that Sam, merry, and Pippin seem to be nothing at all concerned to the Fellowship. The friendship between the hobbits are ill represented.<P>In final words, the PJ may have done the best he could, but there were necessary parts that he had overlooked or failed to fully paint.