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Old 09-21-2007, 09:49 AM   #4
Sir Kohran
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I liked the redesigned ending to FOTR. To this day the book's ending has always been very confusing and a bit unsatisfactory - a lot of dialogue, events taking place 'off screen' and POV changes - and I think Boromir's death should have been put into the first book (I'm guesing a lot of this is down to Tolkien intending to have it as one book).

The movie made the Amon Hen sequence brilliant. The final moment between Aragorn and Frodo, the brutally energetic battle with the Uruk Hai, the sadness and frustration of seeing Boromir slowly going down with the arrows in him whilst he continued to fight, Aragorn's bloody duel with Lurtz, Sam and Frodo departing together and the Three Hunters deciding to save Merry and Pippin are all excellently performed and filmed. Definitely an improvement on the book I'd say.
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