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Apparantly he didn't read the same LOTR that most of us have read. His review shows a complete lack of understanding of the story line. I've read the series every year since I was 10 years old (I'm 45 now). I think he rented one of the older movies that are now on video tape and wrote his review based on that. There's no way he could have read the books that Tolkien wrote, saw the movies that have recently been made and come to the conclusions that he came to in his review. The job(s) that have been done with this set of Ring movies has been as close to exemplary as you can get given the time constraints a file will place on you.

I agree with you, Leatherneck. The thing that is remarkable about the job Peter Jackson and his crew did on these movies (at least FOTR, last year -- haven't seen TTT yet), is that the most devoted fans of Tolkein and the books were the most pleased with the films, almost unanimously. It took a person who loved the books to be able to do what Jackson has done. Ebert's opinion is inconsequential.