[HCIsland]

I find the comments that Fellowship was more true to the book interesting. <P>Acelerated exiting from Hobbiton, no Crickhollow, no Gildor, no Bombadil, changed encounter at Weathertop, Arwen instead of Glorfindel, quick assembly of the Fellowship, extended troll battle, changes at Amon Hen. Two Towers certainly had it's share of changes, but I think it's tough to argue there were more of them or they were larger.<P>Perhaps people just found the changes in Fellowship more digestable - or, perhaps, they have had longer to get used to them - or, perhaps, we have a lot of people that have read (and reread) the book between the two movies and are thus noticing the changes more in the second film.<P>H.C.