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Actually the role of Arwen isn't as expanded as most people think it is. If you have the one volume edition of LOTR there is an Appendix that has a little background about the love between Aragorn and Arwen. Glorfindel was not a major character, I don't mind him being replaced. Apparently you must have quit watching after you saw some of Arwen's scenes in FOTR because I thought that Gandalf was quite crotchety (maybe not as crotchety, but still, the essence was captured). Aragorn softspoken? Where? His voice may not be the way you envisioned it, but Viggo Mortensen surely doesn't deliver the lines meekly. Ok, and the too young thing is just dumb, at the time of FOTR in the book, he's supposed to be close to 1,000 years old, how do you make someone look like 1,000 but yet make them a battle leader at the same time, it can't be done! I think the films are brilliantly done, they don't match up to the greatness of the books, but no movie does, or ever will, so just sit back, relax, accept that things will be changed and enjoy the movie.
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