[Sauron 666]

Examples of dumbing down:<P>The Exorcism scene; i half expected Bernard Hill's head to do a 360 and for him to start vomiting pea soup<P>Saruman's role as a pawn of Sauron, as opposed to envying him and trying to outmanover him <P>the wizard fight, even the psychadelic light show in the animated LOTR was better than this. <P>The romance/dream scenes with Arwen in TTT <P>Galadriel's monolgue in TTT seems to be there for exposition but I'm not sure if its necessary <P>whenever dialogue in the book is substituted for drivel like "even the smallest person can change the course of the future" <P>the scriptwriters getting their geography wrong (in TTT, easterlings are coming from the west, Uruk's turning northeast which would take them towards Ruhn we're told takes them towardsd Isengard) <P>How Gimli is nothing more than comic relief (and Gimli's my fav Fellowship member) <P>Overall I understand that film and literature are two different forms with their own seperate rules and its irrealistic to expent them to film LOTR word for word, I think even I wouldn't like it. I don't care what anyone says, I would get very annoyed very quickly if they had let Tom Bombadil in the movie. Still, it could've been a lot worse, can you imagine if they had let someone like jerry brunkheimer produce it? *shudders violently*.<P>my major complain is arwen, but once i get the TTT DVD i can easily skip those scenes . The rest are minor complaints.