not faithful to tolkein

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2002)

i found tt to be a very good movie, probably the fastest 3 hours i have spent in a theater, but as a tolkien fan i found that jackson has not remained faithful to the books,,,, the hollywood lust for excitement came as a price to the richness of the characters,,, farimir and treebeards wisdom has been lost converting this epic into a motion picture,,, why does hollywood always have to have someone "save the day" as gandalf did at the battle of helms deep instead of the mystical ending as was in the book?
also i found the changing of gandalf's character distrubing, instead of being an adviser to other characters, he has been transformed into almost a christlike persona this motion picture does much better as a stand alone, rather than representing tolkien