Well, after our chat Saturday, I went to ROTK on Sunday. Except for a few ignorant audience members, the main reason I don't go to concerts or movies anymore, beside being too lazy and too broke :^), I mostly enjoyed it (LOVED finally hearing a proper Nazgûl wail/shriek at Minas Morgul!). I still don't like some deletions (I know some are necessary) and most changes - for example, the pointless dumb bastarding around with Arwen through the 3 movies proved pretty empty and futile in the end, didn't it? If that's a sample of his judgment, then it's a damn good thing Jackson had so many wonderful technicians working for him!
Do you think anyone who hadn't read the books would wonder why a small group of our heroes went to Isengard at the beginning of this one? Surely not to pick up a couple of spare hobbits...