<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> (FOTR) seemed to me to take the least liberties with the text <I>(particularly with the dialogue)</I> (my italics)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>My immediate impression of FotR the first time I saw it was that the dialogue was a crazy mishmash of chapter titles and random bits of narrative from all over the place, and the only dialogue which was written by JRRT as dialogue had been transposed from one scene to another.<P>Though I don't s'pose any of the other movies were much better, so I guess your 'least liberties' idea holds... <P>I also thought the overall pacing of FotR was significantly changed by PJ&co, which gave it quite a different feel to the book, regardless of which events were (not) included.<P>That said, I'm not sure any one movie was closer than any of the others to the books. They all suffer from major worldview shifts, if nothing else. (though that's a whole new topic...)
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