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Originally Posted by davem
The whole story could have been told via dialogue - and you'd have a radio play. Its a film & the central philosophy of film is 'Show, don't tell'. I've been one of the biggest critics of the LotR films on this forum, but frankly I've mellowed - its a film & as long as the books are still going to be around I'm not too bothered what they put in the film - either they'll work as films & be entertaining in their own right, or they won't & a lot of people will lose both face & money, but either way the books will still be there & say what they always have - apart from whatever changes/amendments Christopher Tolkien decides to introduce  Whatever PJ has changed in the film version, only CT has introduced posthumous alterations to the text of the book ( 300-400 changes in the 50th Anniversary edition of LotR)- which has annoyed me far more than anything PJ has done.
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What changes did CR introduce to the 50th anniversary edition?