story changes better than lacks

Rating: 7/10 (23 December 2001)

There are a couple hard to understand failures with this movie. No Elven music in Rivendell or Lothlorien? The movie needed some, as the last 1.5 h are quite gloomy with no break. JRR, I am certain, would not have approved! And no gifts from Galadriel except for Frodo at the parting? Perhaps this will be corrected in the later movies (they better be!).
But there are wonderful story twists. The change for Arwen is definitely all for the better! And I very much liked the change with the breaking of the fellowship: more favorable for Aragorn, and combined with the changes with Arwen, make his character fuller and better defined. The movie is so good that even with a couple flaws I rate it one of the best movies I have ever seen.