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So once again, the ugly and smug head of superiority and purity raises its head in these discussions. Once again the Enlightened Gaurdians of the true themes and spirt of JRTT look down their aristocratic noses upon the great unwashed and pronounce them as sad and pathetic creatures beneath contempt for their ignorance and intellectual poverty.
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I'm afraid that there's quite a bit of snobbery from many Tolkien fans where the movies are concerned; their constant statements that their interpretations of the story are 'right' and PJ's and the rest of the world's are 'wrong' are annoying - for instance, in the book the hobbits' room in The Prancing Pony is attacked and vandalised. The book leaves the incident unclear - we don't know if it was the Wraiths' agents or the Riders themselves that attacked. PJ chose the latter option. Anything wrong with that? No, he just chose one of two perfectly possible options. However, one raving book fan on a different site said that having Mordor agents in Bree being mentioned in the previous chapter was 'undoubtedly' foreshading to the attack and therefore PJ was 'wrong' to have the Riders do it.
