[HCIsland]

Definately Fellowship. It was far more even with solid plot and character development that built to a very dramatic and well done conclusion on Amon Hen.<P>Two Towers started in the middle, stayed in the middle and ended in the middle and therefor didn't seem to have the direction that Fellowship had. Of course, as book readers, we know where this is going as it sets up the events and characters for RotK, but as a stand alone movie it came across as more scattered than Fellowship.<P>Two Towers also has my least favourite sequence of the two films. The Elrond-Galadriel conversation that drifts into a Galadriel voice-over right in the middle of the film. Perhaps PJ thought that the non-book audience needed to have this little anchor so they wouldn't get lost, but to me it seemed a useless rehashing of the plot that served no purpose but to get Galadriel into the second film. <P>It is interesting to note though, that the Galadriel voice-over is almost exactly in the middle of the film. Fellowship began with a Galadriel voice-over and, apparently, RotK will end with one, putting this one smack dab in the middle of the trilogy. Maybe PJ was thinking it would make a nice fulcrum for the whole trilogy, I don't know.<P>Both are very good films overall. The changes don't bother me. I think they're pretty minor compared to most book adaptations.<P>H.C.