[Suzerain of Sheol]

Don't get me wrong, the things he cut weren't so much of an issue (good-bye Tom Bombadil, wish I'd never met you, you crazy yellow-booted old fool) it was the things he added, which were normally in the vein of making Gimli into a blustering buffoon or having Legolas do something outrageous and unrealistic. He could have used those instances to add in things from the book that didn't make it in for time constraints, rather than... what, try to appeal to modern audiences? Um... hello, it's only the second-best-selling book of all time, I think it appeals plenty well on its own without dwarf-tossing jokes.

I won't get into the plotholes he caused with his deviations just now, though, since it's been a long day. There are some serious issues, though. Some of them change the entire meaning of the story. Granted, I'm critical, but I'm hardly the only person who noticed these things.

And I will admit, I liked the films when I was younger. I can barely even stand to watch them anymore, now, though. It's not that they're different than the book; if they were different and superior I'd laud the movies. The changes he made were changes for the worse, in my view. I don't know if there's a single character who made it out of the dumbing-down factory unscathed. Like, seriously, I'm drawing a blank here. I can't think of anyone.