[HCIsland]

I think the ending may have been too reminiscent of The Empire Strikes Back as well. One has to be aware of the movies that came before it.<P>I also think that the argument that Frodo and Sam do not have enough to do in RotK is a valid one as well. I don't see why we need to be locked into ending as the books ended. Tolkien always imagined LoTR as one book, not three. Jackson's Fellowship didn't end in the same place either. We actually got the first chapter of TTT with Boromir's death.<P>He want's each movie to have the sense of having an ending even though they each continue one into the other. I think that is a good decision.<P>H.C.