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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 536918" data-attributes="member: 5868">Re: Re: Another review ...Hear, hear!You may be right about the raw number of changes between the two films (I don't really count dialogue, though I recognized more lines in FOTR than TTT) -- the changes in TTT were more noticable to me than the ones in Fellowship (I never cared for Bombadil, and after the Arwen/Glorfindel switch I guess I didn't get emotional about the rest of the changes).  Maybe it's because I just reread TTT about two days before the movie.Hey, from a movie standpoint, the changes work (just ask my wife, who hasn't read the books in probably 15 years, who thought the movie was great!).Oh -- on the title nit-pick.  Do you recall where Tolkien discussed the meaning of the title (I don't have an annotated copy of Tolkien)?  My copy of the trilogy has a passage (at the end of FOTR) that specifically says TTT is about Orthanc and Minas Morgul -- but I don't know if that was Tolkien, or his editor.</blockquote>