how close do you feel the movie came to the book

[cameronkendrick]

With the exception of a few things (mostly removing Tom Bombadil from the movie-which I understand was mostly due to time constraints on the movie) I think that Mr. Jackson did a mighty fine job of translating Tolkien to the silver screen. The phasing out of Glorfindel to give Arwen more screen time was a dissappointment also. Give me your collective thoughts on this.