[Iarwain]

I agree with you completely Túroch. If you don't make a book into a movie for its fans, you must have a very twisted mind. This reminds me (though it is <I>utterly</I> incomprable to TTT) of another book/film: The Count of Monte Cristo. If anyone here has read it, they will understand the unbearable nature of the film, as opposed to the book. And while they are completely different, TTT and Monte Cristo were both butchered almost beyond recognition. <P>TTT, unlike Monte Cristo, did however have a few enjoyable moments. The ents (exempting Entmoot) were fairly well presented, and the opening seqence was quite exceptional. <P>HOWEVER, though my ranting is over, I still find it hard to believe that they cut the movie off half way through each Book (by books I mean III and IV). I was looking forward to an amazing scene including Torech Ungol and Sam's fight with Shelob. The issue of the Palantir of Orthanc was never touched because instead of fetching Treebeard to help at Helm's Deep, Gandalf went to Eomer (who was already supposed to be there, and should have been fighting throughout the entire movie)! Merry and Pippin are left waiting at Isengard, when I was SO looking forward to a closing scene with Gandalf and Pippin riding Shadowfax to Minas Tirith at dawn. Oh well, I suppose all we can do is wait and hope that this disaster is fixed, and the third is as good as the first.<P>-Waiting within my bounds for the world to change,<BR>Iarwain<P>[ December 18, 2002: Message edited by: Iarwain ]<p>[ December 18, 2002: Message edited by: Iarwain ]