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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sulimo" data-source="post: 7969" data-attributes="member: 519">Oh boy...My main problems had to do with Jacksons adaption of all the non action scenes (the Shire stuff excepted). Those being the Bree, Rivendell & Lorien scenes.Frankly I would have prefered them to be a more literal adaption. Even the so-called 'cursed Bakshi film' had more literal versions of those scenes. Secondly, some of the characterisation really bugged me. Of note would be Elrond, Gimli and Aragorn to a degree.The Elrond complaint is fairly self explanatory, he's depicted nothing like that in LOTR. Especially annoying is the Gandalf/Elrond scene where Elrond rants on about 'men'.Gimli...well, he's depicted as a caricature of Dwarves, not the more thoughtful Gimli of the book.Aragorn...part of my problem with Aragorn is the gutting of his backstory and motivations...Aragorn choosing exile...oodles of self-doubt... Nothing like Aragorn of the book who has been working towards becoming King and thru that being allowed to marry Arwen.Arwen...the only thing that bugged me eher was that this prevented Frodo from standing up to the Nazgul at the ford.Beyond these adaption issues, the other problem I had was that the passage of time doesnt really get across very well.Perhaps some of my issues will be lessened once I see the 4hr directors cut.</blockquote>