'An attrocious movie which is a despicable insult to a wonderful book'

[The Saucepan Man]

Well. I would just like to say that I have just played the Lord of the Rings X-Box game, and I am utterly appalled. <P>It was nothing like the book. Many of my favourite scenes were just left out, or changed completely. Aragorn never had to fight any Trolls at Weathertop, so where did that come from? And they had Frodo stealing mushrooms from Farmer Maggot!!! The character development was dreadful and they were nothing like the characters that I had grown to love and cherish. All they ever seemed to do was run around fighting things and picking items up. This game really is attrocious and fails to bring across any of the spirit of the books. It has spoiled the books for me completely, and I can never read them again ...<P>... although I will carry on playing the game ...<P>...