[Lord of Angmar]

I agree that Liv Tyler's being maligned is extremely regrettable and just plain igorant and malicious on the part of her slanderers. To me, it does not matter who was cast for the part. I am not sexist, nor do I find Liv Tyler to be anything less or more than a decent actress. I would say in defense of some of the people who wanted Arwen's part reduced (not including those that attacked Ms. Tyler personally, who I adamantly refuse to defend) that I think most people have a problem with Arwen's inflated role because her character was meant to be mysterious, subtle and unobtrusive pacing-wise to the plot of J.R.R. Tolkien's <I>The Lord of the Rings</I>. Unlike other minor characters, her role was limited for reasons of subtlety and poignance by Professor Tolkien, not because he believed that she did not deserve a bigger role. Some protesters of her role in the movies feel that her role was expanded in a way that Tolkien would not have wanted - as a means of turning <I>The Lord of the Rings</I> into a more traditional romantic epic and to combat any feminist complaints. <P>-Angmar