[The Saucepan Man]

Now don't get me started on those darned Hyena-Lemming hybrids ... <P>Too late!<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> why did this Warg riders look like Hyenas?? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yes, why on earth did they? And not just hyenas (that would have been marginally acceptable), but rather dopey looking boss-eyed hyenas. They looked more like stuffed toys than the cruel, ferocious beasts that I pictured in my mind when I first read the books.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I imagined them to look like large wolves when I was reading The Hobbit. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Absolutely. In fact, I imagined them as huge wolves with enormous jaws jam-packed with cruel and terrible teeth. But you're right. They should at least have looked like wolves.<P>I got really quite excited when I saw from the trailer for TTT that there would be Warg-riders, but seeing them close up in the film came as a complete disppointment. Indeed, for me, this was perhaps the greatest disappointment of the film. A different Faramir I can live with, but the Wargs really ought to have been done properly. After all, the SFX have been a real strength of these films, and one of their best qualities for me has been the way they look, the way they seem to have conjured up images from my imagination all those years ago when I first read the books. But the Wargs just fell flat as far as I was concerned. <P>I told you not to get me started ...