[Morgul Queen]

Main thing with me is the reduction of good characters into comic relief.<BR>By the Fangorn bit Merry and Pippin have matured alot, although pippin still has his occasional moments on the whole they have grown up extremely fast so their little comic relief thing dosent seem quite right to me but I suspect I am alone on that one.<P>Gimli does NOT suit being comic relief, somehow I feel that the real Gimli would attack anyone who made him the butt of a 'short joke'.<P>Osgiliath(sp?) is also a disaster because it is stated in FotR (movie) that the wraiths "feel at all times the presence of the ring" so by the point Frodo is on top of the rubble all 9 should rightfully be swarming around him.<P>Faramir also holds no water in being redeemed and able to let the ring go. If we remember the first movie, Bilbo was the first person to give up the ring of his free will and after not seeing or hearing of it for 18 years has a little insane moment of ring lust (for lack of better name as of this moment) and Gollum still wants it after 80 years. Bilbo had extreme diffuculty in giving it up and gollum lost it yet "faramir" faced no such hardships or difficultys in the losing of it.<P>Gollum seems somehow overly happy and before you all start pointing your barrow-blades at me because he does seem to cheer up slightly in the book and i agree that he is very (over) eager to please in both movie and book, he does not strike me as a happy and cheerful person, hobbit-thing, whatever-you-want-to-call-him. basically what I am trying to say is the elements of his personality(s) are seperated and some are enlarged while others are shrunk leaving us with a gollum *clone* NOT the real thing!<P>WOW, my longest post yet (to my memory, feel free to correct me if need be) free easter eggs for everyone!!! <p>[ April 26, 2003: Message edited by: Morgul Queen ]