[Malsua]

As I have read LOTR at least 10 times in the past 25 years, I have to comment if for nothing else than to feed my own solidarity with the movies.

The movies are GREAT. The extended DVDs actually mimic the book much closer. I will forgive Jackson for Arwin. Glorfindel would have been better placed.

Tom Bombadil is also conspicuously missing. Other than these few issues, the movies are resonably close enough I can forgive the differences. I never envisioned a movie could show what I had read when I was a child in the 70s. The movies have come as close as I feel it could have come.

I will see ROTK this weekend. I know the story, I know what happens, I simply can't wait to view it.

[Arkinsaw]

I will see ROTK this weekend. I know the story, I know what happens, I simply can't wait to view it.

I saw it tonight. I think you will be astonished. Having this book made into these films during these three years is providence. They have a lot to say to the people of America in 2003 if they care to listen.

Sean Astin's performance in this one is twice as good as the previous two I think.

[Fledermaus]

Tom Bombadil is also conspicuously missing. Other than these few issues, the movies are resonably close enough I can forgive the differences.

Yeah, minor differences. Like Galadriel being more of disturbing witch than Tolkien's model of devotional reverence for the Blessed Virgin. Treebeard coming off a little more buffoonish and Faramir is almost the exact opposite on screen as written in the book.

Again, minor differences that Jackson took in his view.