[King of the North]

After the first time I saw FotR in the theater I kept going on and on about what was missing, what was added, and how characters were different. But after I watched all the Appendices, I accepted the changes. Primarily because the special features explain the process of translating a work of literature into film. They also show that the writers (PJ, FW, PB), the actors, WETA workshop personnel, and basically anyone with a high position on the film was fanatically loyal to Tolkien. And lastly, we must remember, these films are just a few people's interpretation of LotR. On the RotK Tolkien special feature, one of the biographers said it perfectly (allow me to paraphrase): "Now we have two paths into Middle Earth: Tolkien interpreted by Jackson and Tolkien himself."