OT- LOTR fan discussion thread - SPOILER WARNING

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DONT READ THIS THREAD IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE LOTR MOVIES, AND DONT WANT THEM RUINED FOR YOU

As a major Tolkien fan, whilst I thought the movie triology was fantastic, there were quite a few things which rankled with me as being ruinously omitted. Now I appreciate that movies never replicate the books, and that artistic license has to be given when producing the movies, but I wondered what the other Tolkienistas on the forum felt to be their biggest gripes, comments and/or criticisms with the movies!!

Mine (in no particular order of importance), are as follows:

1 missing out Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Downs in Fellowship;

2 Irish music being played in Hobbiton, when they were English (OK OK minor gripe I know)

3 Elves turning up at Helms Deep!!

4 Completely underplaying Faramir, he is one of the most noble and heroic characters in the book, and that suicide charge in ROTK was bloody silly;