[Lord of Angmar]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>In TTT, I think the flash forward to the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen from the Appendix was an excellent idea.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yes, that is one of my favorite scenes, and one of the most true to the book (in substance, not in its placement in the story, obviously).<P>I agree about Minas Tirith (and Rohan in <I>The Two Towers</I>). Both were able to depict a level of human suffering that made their respective conflicts with Sauron and Saruman all the more intense. While J.R.R. Tolkien certainly (to my mind) did a good job in conveying the sense of decline, despair and foreboding in Minas Tirith, I never fully received this same sense from Rohan until the movies. Perhaps it was the excellent violin score, as well as the addition of dialogue between Eomer, Wormtongue and Eowyn. The death of Theodred son of Theoden was also handled better in the movie, since Tolkien never really touched upon it at all, and it left me puzzled as to why the King would never address in any great detail or with any real sorrow the issue of his son's passing.