Why all the anger?

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Originally Posted by Guinevere

When watching the movies I sometimes feel like I am surrounded by dear old friends affected by schizophrenia : they look so familiar and "right" but sometimes they suddenly talk and behave not like themselves at all.

Did anyone else hear voices in his/her head when first watching the movies? No, not like that...I mean that as I had all of the dialogue from the books up in my head that when I saw the movies, I would either be (1) expecting specific dialogue or (2) expecting specific dialogue from a specific character. Constantly I would be thinking, "But he said that, not him..."

Luckily TTT started to diverge from the books, and I gave up hope by ROTK, and so there were less voices. My wife (who never read the books) and I would discuss the movies after our annual 'date,' and on the way home I would be ranting about how PJ had changed who said what.

And PJ said time and again that he might change the story (just a little?!?), but the Tolkien world would look right.