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Sometimes the ways the director deviated from the books is truly mystifying.  They seem unnecessary.

I quite agree. Even though it's been quite some time since I read the book (though I'm rereading it now, I'm on The Two Towers, finished ch. 1 before I saw the movie), I noticed a few things that didn't really make sense as to why they were changed... Faramir's character for one.

But all in all, I think it was done quite well.

Yep.

And I know my youth group's resident Lord of the Rings fan would agree with you, too... seeing as how we were giving him a hard time for seeing the movie 4 times in 6 days! Speaking of which, how many times has everyone seen it?

My only problem with the movies is that for the most part the dialog is just getting shuffled around.  In the book Frodo will say the line but in the movie they passed it off to Gandalf for reasons unknown.  And I just read the book version of the whole Ent business and the movie completely jumpled the whole thing around.  At first when Treebeard gets all riled up immediately I had thought the "it's not our business" thing was strictly made up, but then it seems the big differences come later in the chapter.

I like the books sticking with one frame of reference at a time.  The whole four plot thing was a little bothersome at times, but that's how you have to do it in a movie I suppose because all this stuff was happening at the same time.  And the movie folk really went off on minor tangents in order to actually give some characters defintion.  Reading along Sauraman is nothing but hearsay until the near end of TTT.

what the heck is "l337n335" or whatever? What's going on here? Is the language-filter on the forums acting up?

You know 1337speak and |_4|v|3speak?  People that think they are cool use their keyboard in imaginative ways to form words withought using the proper letters or retaining some shred of legebility.

I'm a big fan of Tolkien, and I have read the books and still like the movies-- too many of you people are getting caught up in the discrepancies between the two. The movie isn't SUPPOSED to be exactly the same, it would be like 14 hours long for one, so its just impractical. The storylines are generally the same with only minor deviations, maybe some characters says others' lines, but the line is still said, appreciate it for what it is and don't worry about the comparisons.  The books and movies are awesome, each in their own rights.

It's a different medium.  It's like translating between two different languages.  The mean stays the same, the wordiing is different.

jkahless, yes, it should be. Selective l337n355 is something that I do best.

I don't, I don't know if you have seen this thread.  That pretty mich summs it up.

what the heck is "l337n335" or whatever? What's going on here? Is the language-filter on the forums acting up?

You know 1337speak and |_4|v|3speak?  People that think they are cool use their keyboard in imaginative ways to form words withought using the proper letters or retaining some shred of legebility.

Or intelligence.