[Arcuwen]

I completely agree with you, Saucepan Man. PJ and company did not try to improve Tolkien's work, they just adjusted it for the silver screen. And yes, everyone has their own opinion's of how the trilogy turned out: what was done well and what could have been done differently. Because if each and every one of us attempted to make a trilogy of movies for LOTR, each and every movie would be different, because when we read the books, the image we see in our mind is the image we think is correct. Whether it is correct or not is something that no one can say; it's like someone saying that having blue as your favorite color is wrong. You may picture the dead from the paths of the dead as gray and ghostly skeletons, whereas Peter Jackson pictures them as green and half decayed. There is no way the movies could be perfect for everyone, but I think PJ and the whole crew that worked on LOTR did their best to make the movies as close to each person's images of the books as possible. And man did they do an amazing job (of couse, that is only my opinion). There are so many bad roads they could have taken on the making of these movies just to be accepted by all the Hollywood hobnobs, but instead of the goal being to be as successful as possible, it was to portray LOTR as close to TOLKIEN as possible without making each movie 10 hours long. In conclusion, if movies about LOTR were to be made, this was the way to make them.