I just want to see the sailboat!

[Gorwingel]

Perhaps I should reiterate. This thread is not designed for flaws and mistakes in the films. It is for things that just didn't feel right to you

Well those are things that don't feel right to me

I don't find them to be flawed, it is just that I wish they would have done it differently. Like for example the Grey Havens were beautiful, but they just didn't seem right in my opinion

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Please Gorwingel, take no offence. The comment was not aimed at you.

[radagastly]

I must say that I, too, expected more from the Grey Havens. They kind of worked, and were really beautiful, but I think I imagined them broader and sunnier, more like a vast seaport city. They just seemed so small compared to what I was expecting.

But then, so was all of Mordor. I realize why Peter Jackson filmed it the way he did, the focus needing to shift from the Black Tower to Mount Doom to the Black Gate etc., but it still seemed at times that you could fit the whole country into my backyard.

[Sapphire_Flame]

the orc head on the stake when the three hunters go to the orc pile

I think that was because PJ always has to have *something* being impaled in his movies. It's like his trademark.

I would have to watch all the movies again to point out things I was uneasy about, as I can't think of anything at the moment. Some people, though, *coughmydadcough* could post a list a mile long with what bothered them about the films.

Eomer, I would love to know what you did picture the Phial being like. I always pictured a bottle shaped like a lightbulb, but... *sheepish grin*

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy ~

[Morsul the Dark]

The white orcs...not sure why I assume orcs could be purple for all i know but for the first two movies throughout the books I pictured dark sinister creatures the orcs in ROTK threw me off I was like woag white orcs

[The Saucepan Man]

... that's the ornament that's sitting in my living room right now!

Yes, but haven't you sometimes wondered why your living room is so blissfully free of elephant-sized spiders?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

The sailboat, eh, Eomer? I thought that felt a bit odd... always did think there should have been a nice modern-day sailboat floating down the Anduin. And I HAD always wondered why my house lacked oversized arachnids... The small ones we have aplenty (they abound in old houses), but Shelob sized? God bless my various vials.

Honestly though, I don't much like Galadriel's phial either. I have no idea why, as I didn't really have much of a mental image to contrast it with. It's not wrong exactly... just not right.

Another thing that didn't feel quite right to me was the staircase up to Celeborn and Galadriel's in Lothlorien. I'd always seen it as more of an elaborately carved ladder, with many wellplaced rest stops, not a big spiral staircase. It just tweaks a nerve every time I see it, as pretty and logical as it is.

Fea

[The Only Real Estel]

Another thing that didn't feel quite right to me was the staircase up to Celeborn and Galadriel's in Lothlorien. I'd always seen it as more of an elaborately carved ladder, with many wellplaced rest stops, not a big spiral staircase. It just tweaks a nerve every time I see it, as pretty and logical as it is.

It reminds me to much of the Ewok's many spiral staircases in Star Wars...

I've got one foot on each side of the line on the phial issue. While I thought it was a little wierd/iffy feeling at first, I quickly warmed up to it & now it's pretty close to just fine for me. Or at least until the elephant-sized spiders come back .