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Message: <blockquote data-quote="durath" data-source="post: 345387" data-attributes="member: 832">One thing that was changed and I don't know why is the bar scene in Bree.In the book  Frodo actually gets up on a table to distract attention away from Pippin and strats to sing a goofy song. He eventually loses his balance on the table, falls, and inadvertently the ring pops on his finger and that is how he disappears in the inn.A minor change to be sure, but I just don't know why it was changed at all.I also second the comments on Bilbo& Gollum. A little more explaining would've been nice. No one I know that hasn't read the books understands that part.Along the same lines, I think they really glossed over the way Isildur was betrayed by the ring to his death as he swam away from the orcs.I wish they hadn't cut Gloin from the film. I'm sure he is one of the unnamed Dwarves at the council of Elrond but in the book he has a couple of lines and it would've been a neat nod to the backstory of the hobbit to include it.I did not care for the alteration made to story in Moria. The part I'm specifically rfeferring to is the escape from Balin's tomb. In the book the fellowship escapes through a back door and the Balrog is already almost on them. Gandalf tells them to flee and attempts to hold the door shut with a warding spell of some sort. The fellowship flees down a stairwell and soon after gandalf gets knocked down towards them and is very tired.I would've much preferred that to running across an open expanse, and goblins crawling around like spiders to surround them from above and below.Finally, why at the gate of Moria was it changed to Frodo figuring out the riddle on the door? Another unnecessary change.Things that I'm glad to see restored in the extended DVD--gift giving in Lothlorien-Frodo and Sam seeing the band of elves heading for the grey havens when they had first set off to Bree.</blockquote>

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