The Council of Elrond

[Boo Radley]

Originally Posted by Sauron the White

Much of the news that was imparted in the book version was imparted in other places such as the prologue of the Last Alliance. There is no way that any filmmaker could have sustained audience interest for the length of time it would have taken for all the various talking heads to tell their story and their contributions to the history of the ring had the book been "faithfully" translated to the screen. 25 minutes or more of narrative exposition woud have killed the film dead in its tracks.

Yeah. I have to agree with you on this one.
Of course the scene won't sit well with many Tolkien-o-philes, and yes, we all have our own ideas of how we could have made this scene better or explained this segment of the story more fully, but bottom line -- I think PJ did an outstanding job, putting the story on film.
And I also liked the part when they all began shouting and arguing over one another and then Frodo, the one person who saw what needed to be done and chose to do it, stepped forward.
To me, that was a wonderful moment in the film.