Are the movies a good or bad thing?

[Inziladun]

<BR><br><br> Well, Salabel covered most of what I would say about this.<br> There will,of course be many changes from the book. These are made to an extent due to the time constraints when trying to reproduce books on film. But the enhancement of Arwen's role seems a calculated attempt to broaden the audience by modernizing the story. It will probably work,and I do think the movies will be a financial success.<br> The only good I can see in them though,is that many people may be moved to buy and read the books. I know of no movies based on books by <i> any</i> author that are as good as the works that inspired them. I won't see the movies. Reason being that seeing Middle Earth in cold,hard reality on the big screen would utterly ruin the experience of the books for me. Instead of my imagination,I would have the movie images in my head when reading. And wouldn't that defeat the purpose of opening a book to begin with? <p></p>