Lawrence of Middle-earth

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Originally Posted by Nerwen

I say this, not because I'm in the anti-movie camp, but because it seems to me that your way of thinking is just as rigid, if not more so, than that of the book purists. Maybe you should accept that some people just don't like the films?

Exactly. This thread is about the merits of PJ's LOtR movies, not about Lawrence of Arabia or the importance of accuracy to source material. I don't think anyone here would suggest that PJ should have made the film using the book as a manuscript with all the dialogue carboncopied and with a narrator for the prose. Of course you have to make changes to adapt a book to a screenplay. And no, a film should not be judged based primarly on how faithful it was to the source material. But undoubtebly this will be important to many hardcore fans of Tolkien as I'm sure it was for the familes of people depicted in LoA too.