[Lalaith]

This is hard, I kind of agree with everybody...davem, my main criticisms of the films are also yours, I think they are too linear and too much like a computer game. But at the same time, I can see that if you cut out the Old Forest and the Barrow-wights, you can't just have the hobbits leave one jolly, cosy place (the Shire) to go to another jolly, cosy place (Bree). So, I can see why they made Bree rather more sinister than in the book. BUT, the most interesting thing about Bree was the co-existence of men and hobbits. So, I would have liked to have seen Bree hobbits drinking at the Prancing Pony. I know Butterbur seemed familiar with the breed to offer them hobbit beds, but that wasn't enough...