I agree that the movie pretty much nailed it, but it was only possible because of the depth of the author. Tolkien was a master of description and even though everyone paints their own vision of characters and places, the depth and precision of the descriptions kept us all close to the same page.
(Although I must add the Lorien was much different than I had pictured and feel it could have been better)
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If anyone is interested in listening to clips from the soundtrack, Amazon has some
here.
Does anyone have the soundtrack? I'm going to get it right now! The music in this movie is spectacular.