Did your View of the Characters change after seeing the films?

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Laliath, re your point about Merry

I can't put my finger on it, but I found film-Merry slightly seedy, somehow, and not noble enough.

I stated earlier in the post that I have issues with the Merry character. I said he was too 'street wise'. To add to this, I believe we do not see the innocence of his character in the film as we get in the books. Like you, I can't really put my finger on it, it's just not quite right.

Lobelia, re

I think that there's a lot more fighting between Aragorn and Boromir in the film than the book.

I'll try to fish out some quotes from the books to explain my point that there was a fair bit of infighting between A and B in the book, as much as in the film.