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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1307760" data-attributes="member: 1015">In my opinion, this is one part where the movie improved on the book.  In the movie, Frodo and Sam head out as soon as they find out that Frodo, indeed, has the one ring.Here are some other things that annoyed me about the book:1)  The tension and sense of urgency in the flight to Rivendell was lessened when Aragorn started telling long tales about the elves and men of old.  One minute the hobbits and Aragorn are trying desperately to get to Rivendell before the Nazgul catch them, and the next minute Aragorn is recounting events that happened thousands of years ago.2)  The fall of Isengard, a major event, was glossed over.  We get to see the ents begin their march to Isengard, but the next time we see them, Isengard has already been destroyed and Merry and Pippen get to recount the tale to Gandalf and the others.  The first time I read LotR and reached this scene, I said out loud "You have got to be kidding me!"Weren't Fafhad and Grey Mouser created before LotR?  I've never read the Lankmar stories (so I could certainly be wrong here), but I heard somewhere that the first Fafhad and Grey Mouser stories were written in the 1930s or 1940s, and then more stories featuring these characters were written in the 1960s when LotR became a sensation among college students and modern fantasy established itself as a genre.</blockquote>