[Kalimac]

Actually, if the cuts are skilfully done it could (heresy though it is to say ) end up making it less confusing in terms of the timeline. While reading the books I always have to take a moment to piece things together when I read that, say, Pippin was thinking something at the exact same moment that Frodo and Sam were looking on the ruined head of the stone king. Especially since, as was pointed out, TTT goes a little further with Frodo and Sam than with the rest.<P>Remember that scene in LOTR where we see a scene with Gandalf on the top of Orthanc? It ends with a shriek, and then the camera wipes away really quickly and seems to swoop far away until we see Sam and Frodo walking through a field. It's a nice way to establish that these two things are happening at the same moment; if PJ does a few more tricks like this in TTT, keeping time straight shouldn't be a problem.