There was a longer stay and big feast at Rivendell..
Arwen at the River, I think was Glorifindel in the book..
There was a 'special' relationship between Galadriel and Gimli..
They left out Bombadil and GOLDBERRY...
Gimli was made a comic character...
Legolas is the son of a King, but in the film takes on the aspect of 'an archer'...
The idea of the burial mound(barrow) is important in European History...
They never mentioned The Elessar, which Galadriel used to grow Lorien and which Arwen uses as an ornament...
The idea of the White Tree is treated in passing, as if it had only a vague significance. In the end, Gandalf takes Aragorn into a mountain and shows him the young sappling which is the hope of Middle Earth in the Fourth Age...
In the book, Eomer becomes King of Rohan, Eowyn marries Faramir who becomes Prince of Ithilien...
They left out the scouring of the Shire where the Hobbits become heroes and Wormtongue kills Saruman(Very important part)...
But Most importantly: Except for the little ditty Gandalf croaks in the first Shire scene, there isn't a single song or poem sung or recited all the way through until Aragorn in the final scene, which I don't remember in the book. The Poetry means so much, both as an inspiration and to the story line and spirit of Middle Earth because it had been a special gift of the Noldor..
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