In your opinion, which one of the movies followed the book the closet

[Beanamir of Gondor]

I am an absolute firm believer in the fact that FOTR was the movie that stuck best to the book [and Elusive Spirit, don't even start about You Only Like It Cause Boromir Was In It]. About the only huge happening PJ totally left out was Tom Bombadil and [how's this for irony] the Barrowdowns. In TTT, Eomer wasn't at Helm's Deep, Grima came to Isengard before the flood, and Faramir was a jerk in the non-EE. ROTK was great, but they left out the scouring of the Shire [as mentioned], Eowyn and Faramir's wedding, Eomer's crowning as king, and the Houses of Healing. Oh yes, and all of those special adorable parts with Merry and Theoden.<BR>Oh but I must admit, FOTR definitely and totally forgot about Glorfindel. And there was too much Arwen.