Great visual representation, but minor unnecessary alterations

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2015)

Although Peter Jackson did an excellent job overall, he added many things that were not beneficial to the story and many things that left many confused. For example, the inclusion of Arwen as a major character role, and the love interest between Aragorn and Arwen. I believe that Jackson looked for too much in the story that was not there to begin with. However, the casting was impeccable. I believe that every character shown in the film gave off the same vibe that they'd given off originally in the text. Comparing the text and the film, Jackson was able to show the basic story line and provided a great visual representation of Tolkien's original representation. Even though I say that Jackson added things that were completely unnecessary to the plot, the film gave me the best possible visualization of what I thought the text really was. The film was quite long, but looking back at all of the delicate detailing that Tolkien included in the text, Jackson did an excellent job executing it while still making it completely solid and interesting.