*TTT - Faramir (David Wenham)*

[maiden of the Shire]

I too came away from The Two Towers feeling a bit confused about the changing of Faramir's character...but the movies are just an interpretation of the book. You may feel it is a bad interpretation, but that's all it is. That being said, I can overlook the changing of Faramir, it works for the movie. They had to move the Shelob stuff to Return of the King since Frodo and Sam don't really have enough to do without it (for a film), and without something threatening Frodo and Sam's journey in the Two Towers their part of the story may have seemed dull on screen especially with Helm's Deep and such being interwoven between their scenes. In a perfect world the film would have been solely made for the fans of the books and therefore Peter would not had to have changed a thing. <P>Fact is, people who have no knowledge of Faramir and know nothing else of Middle Earth save what Peter has given them may not have understood how the entire time during Fellowship they were trying to convey how the ring is so powerful, and (almost) no one can resist it, then all of a sudden here's a man with no will to have the ring whatsoever.<P>Cheers!