Gandalf Vs. The Witch King

[Guinevere]

first posted by Nafforc:
I cannot believe that Jackson put this in for the benefit of us true fans, so what motivated him to think he could better the works of Tolkien.

I don't think PJ thought or even knew so much about all these things you all write about! He probably looked at it from quite a different point of view. After all he isn't a Tolkien scholar, but a moviemaker. Consider what he said at one place in the commentaries to RotK:

" my memory is just so muddy about all this stuff because I hadn't obviously picked up the book and actually read the book for years I only read little bits and pieces of it. Just reading sections of it, you loose the experience of the book as a whole..."