Book vs. Movie characters

[Duncariel]

I was not at all happy at first with the way that Arwen was portrayed in the movies, but now that I think of it, it was almost necessary. How else would they have introduced her? In the books, Arwen is introduced at the banquet in Imladris, and that part was not put into the movie.

Glorfindel was one of my favorite characters in the book, and I was upset when they left him out. But I did come up with a reason for that too. Seeing as how the movie was super long anyway, and how difficult it was to get the characters developed, the extraction of Glorfindel gave them more time to dwell on the much more important original characters from the books.

I thought that Elijah Wood did an excelent job portraying Frodo, but the fact that I didn't like him in the first place didn't help much. Did you ever notice how his voice gets steadily higher the tenser the movie got?

I was reasonably happy with the portrayal of Merry and Pippin in the movie. I had always wondered how PJ was going to mature them enough for fighting, and I'm happy with it so far. Especially with Pippin ~ "Don't encourage it Merry!" ~ to ~ "The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm." ~ He matured rather quickly.