As a fan of the novels for more years than many of you have been breathing, let me say that while if I tried hard I could quibble with certain additions and subtractions from the text, overall the movies have so far been a splendid effort that has captured the spirit of Tolkien's masterpiece.<P>The Arwen/Aragorn/Elrond scenes were fine with me. Some of you might look into the appended material at the end of ROTK (the book) and will find that Jackson took much of that straight from Tolkien. It maintains the romantic interest through the second part, which would have been difficult to do without the flashback to Elrond's prophecy. It was a very clever use of Tolkien's extra material.<P>Even so, I do expect that the Extended TTT will be a much better motion picture than the cinematic release.<P>I have heard that the Extended Versions of FOTR and TTT will be released in the theatres prior to ROTK...
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