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heh. what I really find annoying about the Jackson transition of book-to-film is that while he could make a full tranition (not easily, nor cheaply, nor a short movie - think 6 hours per part), he could have done it. in his cuts, though, he changes the story - for the worse - such as the modified relationship between aragorn and arwen. As such, people that watch the movie before reading the book (some of them) think that the books should be changed to reflect the movie. Others thought that FOTR sucked, because it "ended" the way it did, and gave no thought to the book. Yet others watch the movies, and think that they're knowledgable about everything tolkien, yet they've never heard of the Histories, nor even the Silmarillion. As to what Jackson's done to ROTK, I've heard it's a better transition than TT was (side note: some people were campaigning to change the name of the movie Two Towers, because they thought it referred to the World Trade Center). Shelob and the major fights are in, last I heard. I don't know about the Scouring, but I'd hope that's in the Extended.
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