Why?? Special effects and CGI in LOTR

[King of the North]

I agree and disagree with some of wat Celebuial said. Given the quality of the visual effects done by WETA, the more the better. In my opinion, the more PJ used special effects the more of Middle Earth came to life. Looked real. But i would have to agree that the armored trolls looked very CGish, especially the one fighting Aragorn at the end. Celebuial said that

orcs don't simply look like orcs

. Well if ur comparing the RotK orcs to orcs in TT or FotR then no they don't look like orcs. And that was delliberate, because PJ wanted the Mordor Orcs to be a different breed almost. Strong more intimidating. Personally i did not like the appearance of the RotK orcs, and prefer those from TT and FotR. This is because new orcs look more human than elven, and we must remember: orcs are mutilated elves. I would have to say though that I thought Shelob was very well done. Everything about her including all the graphics and also her sound effects. I don't really understand where u are coming from saying that it was not true to Tolkien description. I too agree that Saruman's death scene could have been done better.

You did make some pretty good points