'An attrocious movie which is a despicable insult to a wonderful book'

[Frodo Baggins]

Well now,<P><BR> It is very VERY true that the movie could have been a lot better.<P>Fifthy's right, If you can enjoy both, and be able to enjoy them without the two conflicting each other, then you have the best of both worlds.<P>(By the way, Lush, your title "Fair and Cold" always makes me think of Eowyn. Specifically a certain line from TTT, but thats another story.)<P>I was terribly disappointed by Faramir, the young, bright, kind student of Gandalf (Who also was much better than his brother, I don't know what on earth Denethor saw in Boromir!) was kidnapped and exchanged for Boromir's younger evil twin. A power hungry man who keeps hobbits tied up in the basement for kicks!<BR> And now for one of my infamous tangents......<P> Our dear little David Wenham has naturally blonde hair and makes a rather good Faramir. HOWEVER in the books it distinctly describes Faramir with dark hair, Gondorians are Numenorians and thus are predominantly dark haired. Now, Karl Urban, on the other hand actually has dark hair. In my opinion, they should have switched a few things and had a naturally blonde Eomer and a dark haired Faramir! It seems to me that in the movies all humans with the possible exceptions of Aragorn and Wormtongue have blonde hair! Middle-Earth is full of dumb blondes! (well, it seems that Aragorn is the only man that isn't a little on the dippy side.)<P>You say it was better that they cut Glorfindel. EXCUSE ME! In the book, Glrofindel appears at leat two more times than Haldir, and Glorfindel gets totally cut while Haldir gets this HUGE dramatic part!<P>Cazoz, you may have confused Sauron and Saruman but be glad they didn't do like in the Animated version where half the time uts Saruman and the other half its Aruman.<P>Well, the notorious rambling is over, you can un-stop your ears now. Suffice to say, PJ and co. did stray a little too far for my tastes, but I'm still watching the movies, and I'm still here.<p>[ January 29, 2003: Message edited by: Frodo Baggins ]