[Popman]

I hope they haven't screwed this up as they did the Lord of The Rings.

Having read the LOTR probably six times over the last 35 years...I thought the movies were very well done

I think Jackson did a outstanding job taking the book form into a movie format

Granted he left many important details out of the movies, but you are talking probably six movies to put everything in...

My biggest beef was he left out the the most important moral aspect of the story..

"The Scouring of the Shire"

[ClearCase_guy]

I enjoyed Jackson's LOTR trilogy. Very hard book to film, and he did a pretty admirable job. Sure, I missed Tom Bombadil, but I can see what that character was left out. I wasn't thrilled by Arwen's expanded role, but I could see why that decision was made. There were certain scenes that I thought might have been done better, but isn't that true of any movie?

No, I don't really feel I have grounds for complaining about Jackson's LOTR. But if I were to say one thing -- I would say that the character of Aragorn was too conflicted, too unsure of himself, and not nearly committed enough to Arwen. The whole point of the story of Aragorn and Arwen -- and the story of Beren and Luthien -- is that real love allows mortal men to achieve greatness beyond anything that might be reasonably expected of them. I think Jackson felt compelled to show "character growth and evolution" of Aragorn across 3 movies, and I think that this was regrettable.

[HangnJudge]

My biggest beef was he left out the
the most important moral aspect of the story..

“The Scouring of the Shire”

Or the Tom Bombadil / Withywindle / Goldberry sequence

But I guess, it just didn't fit.

The LOTR movie was a rare instance where, to some degree, the Movie was better done than the Book
Tolkien really didn't do female characters well
The Movie fixed this without doing violence to the books

[LegendHasIt]

""The Scouring of the Shire"

Ditto. While I loved the movies, that omission was a big disappointment.

[BenLurkin]

I realized that I was not the only person to whom Return of the King seemed interminable when...about the time Bilbo was setting for Gray Havens..a young man off to my right shouted “End Already!”