[The Only Real Estel]

I even might appreciate this part more, it stuck with Saruman trying to be able to persuade Gandalf. He couldn't do it, so he imprisons him. Tolkien never talked about being the "battle between the wizards," but I enjoyed this scene from the film

Also, in the books it just says that Saruman took him & set him on top of Orthanc. Now how is PJ to show that in the movie? Techinically, he never showed how Gandalf got up on top of Orthanc, but he showed a little more than Saruman just 'taking' him. I liked it.

I didn't mind it in the very least that Bombadil was left out. I think I would have feared for my sanity if I had to sit through Derry-dolling in the theater

Good one. I had forgotten about that one(shows how much it bothered me, huh?), though it's kinda a big one. No worries about it on my part, Bombadil is better left to the reader's imaginations, and the movie could've hit a big lull right when the tension was building.