OT- LOTR fan discussion thread - SPOILER WARNING

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Growltigger:
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;

Actually Old Bombadillo is my least favorite character in the trilogy, so no great loss for me.

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

At least the Irish have music, unlike the English (what was PJ supposed to do, put Hobbiton to the tune of "Eleanor Rigby"? )

3 Elves turning up at Helms Deep!!

No big deal - they all died anyways...

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;

OK, here I'll agree with you, at least as far as Faramir's treatment in TTT goes (the extended edition repaired the damage somewhat), but the suicide charge (other than giving Minas Tirith cavalry, which they really didn't have in the books) is pretty faithful to the spirit of the Faramir/Denethor relationship (such as it was).

Just don't get me started on the Ents...