[HCIsland]

Couple of other RoTK comments.<P>I'm very much looking forward to Eowyn and the Nazgul, partially because of the reaction this will get from the non-book audience. They'll be convinced this was a modern add on. In many ways, Tolkien was ahead of his time.<P>Also, it has been mentioned that Jackson has left too much of the content of LoTR for the final movie, but I don't think this is true as I did a little page counting.<P>In FoTR, 368 pages of the book was adapted. This includes all of Fellowship minus chapters 6, 7 and 8 of book one (Tom Bombadil) plus chapter 1 of book three (The Departure of Boromir).<P>In TTT, 235 pages of the book was adapted. This is books three and four (normally published as The Two Towers) minus chapters 8, 10 and 11 of book three (Road to Isengard, Saruman and Palantir) and 8, 9 and 10 of book four (Shelob build up and aftermath).<P>That leaves 335 pages left for RoTK which is less then FoTR even after Tom Bombadil was taken out. As well it is only 273 pages to the actual climax of the action. Of the remaining 82 pages (6 chapters) we know a lot will be gone including The Scouring of the Shire. There is some stuff that has to be dealt with, but I think it can be done fairly quickly with the main emphasis being building up to the scene in Grey Havens.<P>H.C.