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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 575409" data-attributes="member: 7883">I've noticed this complaint about the Nazgul being driven off by an arrow in several arguments on the boards.What's the deal with that?  In the Fellowship of the Ring (the book), Legolas takes out a Nazgul with one shot from his bow.This takes place when they're going down the Anduin, before reaching Amon Hen and the Breaking of the Fellowship.  A bunch of orcs on the shores start shooting arrows at the Fellowship, and then one of the Nazgul on Fell-Beast back comes flying in.  Legolas takes a shot in the dark, and kills the Fell-Beast.   The Nazgul falls on the other side of the river.In The Two Towers, when Merry and Pippin are being held by the orcs, the orcs even discuss this when they are arguing with each other.  The Uruk-hai are laughing that Sauron's servants don't seem so touch because one got shot down with an arrow..So, it's definitely possible for Faramir to drive off a Nazgul with one shot of his bow in the movie.I find in the movies that there are several events that happen that are right out of the book, but they've switched them to different times in the story, or made a different character do what was done in the book....this is just more of the same.As an example, when Frodo and Gandalf are in Moria, talking, and Frodo says he wished Bilbo had killed Gollum, and Gandalf gives his big speech, that's almost verbatim out of the books.  But in the book, it took place in Bag End, before Frodo ever started his journey.Or at the gates of Moria, in the movie, Frodo guesses that the way in is a riddle.  In the book Merry first suggested that it might be a riddle, and it was Gandalf that figured it out....etc. etc.As to The Two Towers movie, Merry and Pippin trick Treebeard into attacking Isengard.  In the book, they basically meet Treebeard, and then explain their adventures, then Treebeard goes and calls the Entmoot and makes the decision to attack and all himself.  But that really doesn't give much for Merry and Pippin to do, and it violates a key dramatic element needed for a movie adaptation.  The viewers need to be able to associate with the heroes, and the heroes have to be active....not just sitting there while "NPCs" they've met make all the decisions.  I think PJ made the correct choices for the movie.Banshee</blockquote>

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