LotR1-FotR-Seq10

[Essex]

Boromir

It's a look at the movies from the movie perspective

And there's the Rub.....

This is what they are. Movies. Totally different medium to a book. Unless you have a narrator reading out directions / characters thoughts / explaining times when the characters are telling others what has happened.

take for example the council of Elrond - I believe this would take at least half an hour to run through word for word - It can't be done in a 3 hour movie.

now a mini series that has all (or most) of the text could work.

And, as I've stated many times before, LOTR was not made for us geeks who hark on about how different it is to the book or what colour hair legolas has. It was made for the masses. Not us.

Though this is expected from any director who is making a movie.

What. 10 year's worth of effort? I think not!!!!!

Alatar,

Anyway, for example, is it 'piling on' to suggest that PJ diminished the role of Frodo?

Every character will be diminished when you take 54 hours of source material and condense into 8.5 - 11 hours