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Which Annoying Two Towers Character are You?
By Lisa

...and then she asks, "Did they change anything from the books?" And I said "Not the first one so much, except instead of Arwen saving Frodo it's this Elf guy called Glorfindel but it's okay 'cause otherwise when she shows up at the end of the third movie to marry Aragorn everybody'd be all, 'Who the hell is she?' But in the second book..." Yadda yadda yadda.

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ok, so i am an avid reader of tolkien's works. read lotr when i was 9 and have read it once a year since (i am now 28). plus the background books, etc. first, the "in the book he rejects the ring" please tell me he does in the movie as well... i havent seen the second movie, but will, but am not in a rush cause to me its a good fantasy movie, but it isnt really lotr (cause if it is its really bad) but i only have so much patience. tell me faramir rejects the ring in the movie too!! and...what do you mean by "but in the second movie..."
if the spoilers arent something you wanna post here, feel free to email me at : magic_fish@hotmail.com i will be glad of the heads up, as it might allow me to enjoy the movie for what it does offer (visually beautiful representations of middle earth) thanks :)
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and what does it mean he "drags them to the ruined city of osgilith"??? no outpost under the falls? why change that? i know there are changes for time, and for the hollywood pallet, but why change that?
thanks
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There's an outpost under the falls. And Oliphaunts.

Farry rejects the ring. It just takes him a little longer in the movie, in the name of dramatic suspense and setting up the retreat from Osgiliath for the next movie.

Other changes: Stuff with Elrond and Arwen that may or may not be entirely in Aragorn's head (I think it is). Company of Elven archers is sent to Helm's Deep. Minor character buys it. Ents plotline slightly different but ends up the same. Odd digression in which Aragorn is separated from the Company. Frodo and Sam's route to Mordor via Osgiliath thanks to Faramir. Still some of TTT left to do in Movie 3.

well i think i can get passed those things :) myself i love the movies for their great representation of middle earth in the visual sense. i am, however, uncertain if the screen play writer understood the archetypal importance of certain charachters/actions/events. that and never trust hollywood to do well at adding romance (arwen/aragorn) where it wasnt before. starwars episodeII case in point. blech.
thanks for the info
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Episode II is perhaps a bad example, since it is the source material for...itself. Nothing to blame there but its creator's giant boneless ham hands.

lol right you are :) its just hard to remember its the same guy who did the first three (the middle three)
i try not to expect a pure telling from the movie. but i think some changes dont make a better movie or shorten things, they simply show a lack of sensitivity (ie: big clumsy ham hands handling delicate crystal goblets) :)

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