[Estella Brandybuck]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>As for the Arwen issue, are those protesting her prominence in the movie seriously suggesting she just appear out of nowhere in ROTK and marry Aragorn with nary a word of explanation like she does in the book? I don't think so!<P>In fact Arwen's invisibility is one of the flaws of the book. I mean *one* glimpse of her at Rivendell and nary a hint she and Aragorn are anything but good friends until all of a sudden she rides in to become queen?? I don't know about anybody else but personally I despised Arwen for *years* because she 'stole' Aragorn from Eowyn. <BR><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a bad idea to give Arwen a more prominent role in the movies, I just don't like how they've put so much of her in. I enjoyed her in FotR, but then again, I hadn't read the books when I first saw it, so I didn't know hardly anything about what I was seeing. And I understand why they put her in TTT even though she wasn't mentioned in the book at all - the regular movie-goers would have probably been very confused with the disappearance of all these characters. But I felt that it took up too much space when the film could have shown more of what actually happened. It was just something that I personally wasn't fond of. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Movie Faramir is distrustful of the Hobbits, (with good reason) and determined to find out what they are up to. Not only is Movie Frodo far less forthcoming than his Book alter-ego, he makes the serious mistake of telling Faramir an out and out lie. I can't think of anything more likely to prejudice any honorable Dunedain against the Hobbits.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That's a good point, I never thought about it that way. So when you think about it. . . it wasn't just Faramir's characterization that messed things up in the whole Ithilien/Osgiliath plot, it was also Frodo's (or something like that. . . ). But there was one thing in particular about movie Faramir that really irked me for some reason. . . okay, in the books, we hear Faramir's men talking about how he tells them not to harm living things (can't remember the exact words). But in the movie, he lets his men drag Gollum all the way to Osgiliath on a leash? It was just things like that that got to me. . . probably just me, though. But like I said, I've gotten to where I can tolerate the changes. David Wenham's performance made it all worthwhile, in my opinion.