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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allanon" data-source="post: 544883" data-attributes="member: 8513">Although I AGREE that some changes were AWFULL when compared to the book, one also had to look at another aspect of this film. After the first movie the amount of merchandising surrounding the movie was staggerign but even more mind boggeling was the amount of rereleases of LOTR the book that showed up in bookstores everywhere. And the incredible amount of books that were suddenly bought... Not by fantasy nerds or people with good tast for books but by people who would have otherwise never have bought the book. Although they're will remain a fair amount of people who will LOVE the film but will never read the book my mother and girlfriend for example have suddenly both read the books and loved them, while before they'd just look at me and say that they didn't have that amount of time for a book of those proportions.So although a small portion of die-hard old school Tolkien fans will hate the movie I personally Like PJ's simply because it has gotten people to read a fantastic book.</blockquote>