[Kransha]

I feel for you, really. That must have been torture.

I've experienced things mildly like this, but not entirely. My friend had to do a book report (similiar enough to your story), and he picked the Two Towers. He had to write an essay on character and plot. I was, of course, ecstatic, since this was one of my only friends who hadn't actually read the book.

But, he was apparently too lazy to read it anyway. He did his report on the movie. Now, the movie's fine, but the was an Essay on CHARACTER AND PLOT: two things which the movie TTT mangled at least a bit. He gave a great report on the movie, but not on the book, which means; He got Faramir all wrong, he left out Shelob, added the whole Osgiliath bit, and more. It was, as I said, a very well-written report, but his teacher at the time had read the book and seen the movie, so he had a pretty good idea of what had happened.