Two Frodos

[Naaramare]

I was disappointed in the Lorien of the movie because it should be a place that embodies sunlight and they chose to show it at night, but I thought that they just misjudged the importance of light and golden-leaved trees rather than that they were unable to do goodness.

Actually, PJ did film quite a bit of footage in Lorien in the sunlight, but it was cut in favour of time limits, focusing on what was necessary solely for plot. Supposedly, the special edition DVD will have that footage put back.

I will admit that was the one place I was disappointed with the movie, but I understood the change. At one point, I saw an interview which pointed out that no sane screenwriter would put the Lorien sequence where it was in trying to make an individual movie.

I don't think PJ was unable to show "goodness", whatever your definition of that may be. Not with a stubbornly determined Sam, who knew very well he couldn't swim and was absolutely terrified of running water, wading right out into the middle of a river (guess what Naaramare's favourite scene was? ^~). Nor with the before-mentioned Shire sequences.

One must also take into account the fact that PJ was trying to make a movie even the uninitiated could enjoy, and the uninitiated would expect someone in Frodo's position to be terrified, unbalanced and so forth.