I thought that there was a little too much humor in the second two movies. For example, in the fight at the Black Gate, after they talked with the "ambassador" Gimli makes a smart remark like he had a hundred times throught the movie. This kind of ruined the scene because you had just started to feel sad and worried but then he lightened it all up. This is kind of off subject, but I like in the books how he has that part before it tells that Frodo got away from the tower. In the books, the last you hear of Frodo is that he had been carried away by the orcs, which fit with the mouth of souron telling them that he was captured. However, in the movie he gets away before that so that takes a lot of the sadness out. I would almost say there is too much humor and misplaced scenes in the last two. I know its hard because of the way the books were written, but I still think that you shouldn't have known Frodo had escaped till after the conversation with the mouth of sauron
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