One Hobbit Good, Two Hobbits Bad

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Or would it be the change in a character like taking Boromir of the books who many say is a rather unsympathetic character who borders on arrogance and haughtiness but in the films Jackson gave him a soul and feelings that touched audience members. Is that what you mean?~Sauron the White

Boromir unsympathetic in the books? I think not. And what's wrong with Tolkien deciding to make a conflicted character? A character who's pride (and yes arrogance) is in a constant struggle with his desire to do the right and honourable thing? What's wrong with Tolkien creating a layered character who is personally in conflict with himself?

And if you are interested, I actually think that besides a little moment in TTT EE Boromir was a character Jackson got right! Sure one could say Jackson probably made Boromir a little more likeable, but Tolkien's Boromir was far from unsympathetic:

'...and Pippin gazing at him saw how closely he resembled his brother Boromir - whom Pippin had liked from the first, admiring the great man's lordly but kindly manner.~The Siege of Gondor

Jackson simply smoothed out some of the rough edges in Boromir, I would hardly call that a "change" or "invention."

When I think of change, I'm talking about something that is completely invented (Elves showing up at Helm's Deep) or something that is contradicts what we know about a character. For an example, in TTT Aragorn stops Theoden from killing Grima in a fit of rage, yet in ROTK Aragorn, in a fit of rage, decapitates the Mouth of Sauron.

Am I 100% positive the 2nd film is going to be a bust? No, but I would bet on it, and as I talked about before I think we are going to see a lot of inconsistancies (since there is going to have to be a lot of "invented" material). Rather ironic if you think about it. I mean the desire to bridge TH and LOTR may actually may lead to making a mess causing even more unanswered questions that were caused by some of Jackson's tweaking.

Look what happened to the Star Wars franchise and all the "spin off" novels. Everyone wanting to get a slice of the pie, just inventing a bunch of tales and using some of the same names from the original so they could slap on the Star Wars title and suck out as much money as they can.