Gollum...lembas?

[Kath]

But the aversion wasn't meaningless! Gollum is supposed to be this creature that while once good is now intrinsically evil. As elves are meant to be like the embodiment of all things good then Gollum being unable to touch things made by them would actually be a good way to show his nature.

[Guinevere]

why should he further go into Gollum avoiding the touch of the leaf wrappings? Besides, I don't think PJ went with Tolkien's concept of 'leaf wrappings',

In the book it says (as Sharku quoted above) :
"Frodo broke off a portion of a wafer and handed it to him on its leaf-wrapping"
where as in the sequence on the DVD, Frodo broke off a tiny bit and flung it (without leaf wrapper) in Gollum's direction, so he had to pick it up from the ground.
This seems perhaps a small change, but it annoys me because it shows such a different attitude! In the movie Frodo shows contempt and disgust of Gollum ("Don't touch me!") but Book- Frodo showed pity and the real wish to help Gollum:

"I'm sorry," said Frodo; "but I can't help you, I'm afraid. I think this food would do you good, if you would try. But perhaps you can't even try, not yet anyway."

[The Only Real Estel]

But the aversion wasn't meaningless! Gollum is supposed to be this creature that while once good is now intrinsically evil. As elves are meant to be like the embodiment of all things good then Gollum being unable to touch things made by them would actually be a good way to show his nature.

That's true, but the aversion is not needed to further the plot, perhaps I should've put it that way.

This seems perhaps a small change, but it annoys me because it shows such a different attitude! In the movie Frodo shows contempt and disgust of Gollum ("Don't touch me!") but Book- Frodo showed pity and the real wish to help Gollum:

Movie Frodo is certainly different from book Frodo in many ways, & you pointing out the lembas sequence is one that I really hadn't noticed before. Although Frodo treats Gollum with enough pity at times ("I want to help him Sam."), he seems to have mood swings on the issue. Although I think the "Don't touch me" was perhaps directed to Gollum more out of fear of him touching his Ring than anything.

[Kath]

Hmm, I suppose thats a good reason for it to be left out, though it would have made Gollums character more layered. I think thats why it really bothers me, that its supposed to be evil gollum and good smeagol. But in this scene he is smeagol still, and yet he's evil. Ooh then thats actually really good. Ignore all previous statements as I have just got where PJ was heading with this!