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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 1112150" data-attributes="member: 4779">Here is where we slightly dissagree.  Can TTT be enjoyed completely on its own?  To some - yes, to others - no.  Some folks will marvel at the battles and scenery not really caring that they have no idea what the One Ring is or why any of this is happening.  Others will be completely confused and despite the well-told story will not be satisfied at all.  These folks need the rest of the story - the beginning - to enjoy it.  Sometimes, a battle of which you don't know the meaning of can fall flat.  I am not one of these people but I know folks who do view the movie that way.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Sure, but that's not the whole story.  What about Gandalf the Grey?  You don't get to see him in TTT but he has a huge impact.  You don't get to see the kind of hobbits Merry and Pippin were before their adventure started nor how much Frodo has changed.  While some of this can be inferred it is quite different to see it and definitely fills out the story and explains things that some viewers could get easily caught up on.My point in all of this is that while the basic adventure story (big battle, save the goodly folk, destroy evil) is there - it is more complex in its telling and not everyone will by satisfied by the story told because of the obvious missing parts.</blockquote>

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