[Lalaith]

Do I like Arwen's role? In FotR, yes. In TTT, not particularly. <BR>I also think that way, way, too much sound and fury has been vented on the Arwen/Glorfindel substitution. It was a plot change, more than a character change, and it really wasn't such a sacrilege compared to the radical character overhauls we've seen. (And Tolkien himself said messing about with people's characters would upset him more than plot changes.)<BR>I think it was Diamond who suggested, in another thread, that a lot of the over-the-top ranting against Arwen, to the exclusion of other things, is down to sexism, and I would tend to agree with her. <BR>Btw why doesn't Durelin like Gandalf 'killing the Balrog all by himself' in the film? <BR>That's what he did in the book...