I loved the books and just finished re-reading them a few days ago. However, the adaptation is well done. It is a very good movie. It is easily the best fantasy movie ever done. See it and enjoy it. Incidentaly I thought that the Arwin portrayal was fine -they did not turn her into a Xena or Eowyn type character. The orcs were good too but they did diffentiate more between the Uruk-Hai and the Moria Orcs than the books did. However, I thought the changes were in the spirit of the books and quite acceptable. Hopefully, this will do for fantasy movies what Star Wars did for SF movies and raise the bar for standards.

Allan Thornton