[Vardadurwen]

I would most definitely say that The Fellowship of the Ring was the best movie. Someone mentioned being star-struck by that film, and I would agree that that is how I felt. Alas, that star-struckness had worn off by the third film. I am still in awe by these great works, but not as much as when I was first introduced to them.<P> I think that FOTR was the smoothest in its storyline. ROTR jumped around a lot; like they were trying to cram everything into a very, very long three and a half hours. Also, there were way too many loose ends in ROTR (Eowyn and Faramir huh??) and the ending was just all mushed together. There were too many too long battle scenes...well I've posted my qualms about the movie in another section so I won't get started again. TTT deviated far too much from the book for me to even consider it being my favorite; although I did enjoy the Ents!<P> Someone also mentioned that Gandalf seemed different in the other two movies after he became Gandalf the White. I would whole-heartedly agree. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it, but he wasn't quite so...friendly perhaps?? Oh well.<P> I do agree that perhaps one should base their opinion of a movie on how that movie affected them and not of how well it is done relative to the book it is based on. However, how can you not make that comparison? You know the real thing in your head, yet when you see it on screen being torn apart, it's kind of like you begin to dislike it because of the fact that they are straying so far from that reality in your mind....make sense?<P> Well anyways, my favorite book is probably ROTK or TTT. I love Denethor as a character, and thought he was fantastic in the movies. The last two books are just full of great action. I get super excited when I read them, but I feel the movies leave something to be desired. The book FOTR is a little slow to me, but the movie makes up for it. Oh well, you gotta take what you can get eh?