Book vs. Movie characters

[greyhavener]

In the movies, they left out the part about Gollum betraying Sam and Frodo to Shelob, so he seemed a lot nicer than he was in the book.

In TTT movie Gollum is leaning against a tree having one of his Gollum/Smeagol arguments and says something along the lines of "I could give them to her. I think this is referring to Shelob, which I suspect will show up in the ROTK movie, although it's part of TTT in the books.

I think the movie rendition presents Gollum as the pitable creature Gandalf wants Frodo to perceive him to be. His tortured, conflicted "possession" by the ring brings to the screen a picture of the evil power Tolkien took paragraphs of narrative to convey throughout the story. Movie Gollum works for me.

Just don't get me started on Faramir, Frodo, or Galadriel...