May 4, 2002

Some More Things
Diana

Here are some things I just forgot to mention. First, from that website, I read that Faramir's gentle nature is ruined. Then there are some changes that "look cheesy." From "The Two Towers" preview, I already noticed some changes, such as Galadriel's appearance and Gandalf the White talking about the "union between the two towers, Orthanc and Barad-dur." Gandalf also mentions about Aragorn being the King of Gondor. These were not in the book. I also learned that the fight with Shelob is moved to "The Return of the King," and I saw that some scenes in TTT preview seem to be from RotK.

Lem and DracOn1us, the Lothlorien scenes were also an example of scenes being too dark. They looked scary. You also provided the support for my comments about making the hobbits and Gimli useless. What you mentioned was also what I felt. The movie really ruined a lot of the character images.