Changes that you weren't bothered by.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Morgul Queen

But Faramir taking the Ring to osgiliath...it's not so much that fact that the Ring is in Osgiliath, it's that the Nazgul are there, they know Frodo's got the Ring and is in Osgiliath, which, incidentally, is also where they are...and they don't do anything about it. The book!Nazgul and Book!Sauron would have Frodo surrounded, killed and the Ring taken before the Great Eye could Blink.

I have no problem with Faramir taking the Hobbits to Osgiliath. As has been said, he does let them go - only a little later than in the book. The omission of (most of) the wonderful conversation between Frodo and Faramir at Henneth Annun is regrettable but understandable. And I don't share Morgul Queen's reasons for disliking the scene. It is quite credible that two Hobbits (and one Gollum) could slip away before the Nazgul could summon sufficient aid to attack. Although I did think that it might have been rather good to have Faramir shoot down the Ringwraith's Fell Beast (in place of Legolas at Parth Galen), so as to explain why he (the Ringwraith) didn't press the attack on his own.

But my one gripe with this scene is: why on earth would seeing a seriously unstable Hobbit almost hand the Ring over to the Enemy's servant make Faramir change his mind and make him think it would be a good idea to send that very Hobbit into the Enemy's territory with the Ring? I believe that the film-makers' intention was to have Faramir realise the danger of the Ring - that it could bring Frodo to the point of almost handing it over. But it just doesn't ring (*groan*) true for me.

Btw, I realise that most of my comments here concern the scenes that I was bothered by - but they are much fewer than those that I wasn't bothered by. In fact, Saruman's "exorcism", Frodo and the Nazgul in Osgiliath and the gratuitous "Is Aragorn dead?" scenes were the only ones that really bothered me.