[Gryphon Hall]

Up until the time he died, even J.R.R. Tolkien himself was not sure how to 'unify' (for lack of a better word) the 'continuity' (someone please invent some better words) of the Lord of the Rings. So PJ didn't make the movie exactly like the way the books came out. Big deal! Tolkien's final LotR was very different from the way he originally envisioned it, too. I mean, there wasn't even supposed to be a Strider originally, among other things (like there was no Legolas nor Gimli at Balin's tomb).<P>The fact that Anduril was nowhere to be seen in FotR and TTT, as well as having Elves in Helm's Deep, héck! even the fact that there was no Dunharrow, and a lot of other stuff I am so tempted to mention but I am not, hrrrmmmm, all of these are considerably minor to the stuff I have been reading in Lost Tales, HoME, and Unfinished tales. I mean, whoah! where did all THAT come from.<P>I mean, give PJ a break! He has to fit all of this in to a movie barely three hours long. I am actually surprised that he got Appendix A and some of the Lay of Leithian into the film.<P>Gaaahhhh, gaaahhhh, *heeeeek*, haaaaah... sorry, got carried away there. Sorry, didn't mean to be rude or anything. Can't we get any of the Japanese to make a faithful anime series rendition of the LotR, so we can have <I>everything</I>. *Sob-sob* Sorry, PJ; didn't mean to doubt you...