This Film was very good considering the limited length.

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2002)

The Film itself was very well done, but, in my own opinion, had they done six films (as there are actually six books, not just three) all two to three hours long, then they would not have had too cut so much out. Why they cut out the Hobbits' journey through the Old Forest, their meeting of Tom Bombadil, Being caught at the Barrow-Downs, Gandalf's explanation of Gollum etc. (That's only the first half-hour of the first movie-who knows what they cut out of The Two Towers and Return of the King). And I simply don't like the way they did Frodo's rescue from the Ring Wraiths after he was wounded on Weather-Top-they should not have tried to make Arwen such a heroin. They should have had more respect for Tolkien's work than to change it so, cutting out bits and pieces is one thing completely changing a very good scene is another. Those who have read the book know what I'm talking about-it should have been longer, to show how far they had to travel with Frodo in this condition, and they should have had parts of it sort of-from Frodo's point of view, so that you could see just how bad his condition was. I think that I would have like this movie much better, had I never read the books.