I think LOTR is a US film because we have such an obsession with political correctness and female equality. I was very upset by the portrayal of Arwen and Galadriel. A friend of mine said they had to change Arwen's part because there were no good female leads in the book. Oh, well!!! Arwen was much more of a mysterious character in the book and her feelings for Aragorn were much more private and unspoken. Galadriel was supposed to be so beautiful and compasionate but the movie has her way too angry and certainly not that lovely to look on. I love the books and if I hadn't read them so many times I would love the movie. But considering that a movie can never live up to the images and imagination a book imparts, it wasn't too bad.