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What change in the movies ticks you off the most?

My deepest fear is that Jackson is so invested in the character of Frodo...that he has so much desire for Frodo to be liked and so wants there to be a "happy ending" that he might just, and let me say that I have heard no rumor that this is happening...it just seems like something Jackson would do, Let Frodo destroy the Ring at mount doom, instead of failing his quest as he did in the original story.
 
I'm reading the posts on this thread and I'm doing a long slow white hot burn. Once again I am reiterating my intention to *not* give the bastard Peter Jackson even a dime of my money. That's why God invented the bootleg download. I will *not* go see this movie in the theatre. I will*not* buy or rent it on VHS or DVD. I will download a free copy of the movie off of the Internet. I've never done this before and proabably won't do so again (except for when "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" get released on as free bootlegs), but I will *not* give the bastard Peter Jackson a cent of my money.
 
howz every one so sure!? I'm seeing with my friend so we can complain about it later.
 
I hear you, Iluvatar. I have been bitching and philosophizing against the changes in the movies and not getting much support from forum members (except for Greymantle and ReadWryt). Most of them just want me to stop my bitching! Just looking at the spoilers/changes of FoTR on www.tolkienonline has almost made want to skip the movie. I haven't even touched the ones for TT and RoTK. Nor am I going to, because I feel that it will push me over the edge! Already knowing that the Scourging of the Shire is cut makes me predict the horrible liberties that are being taken with the other two movies. Down with PJ!!!

Nonetheless, even though I am a purist I don't think I could miss seeing it on the big screen. Even though I will be fuming, grimacing and "Oh come ON, PJ!!! -ing through the whole thing, my wife, an English major and English literature lover, as agreed to finally read LoTR so she can come see it with me, and a lot of my students who areTolkien fans will be there and talking about it and spoiling it for me for months after if I don't.
 
I am going to see this movie. You whiny slapnuts can complain all you want, but I am going to see this movie, whether there are a million confounded changes or just one. I go to see movies to be entertained, not to critique them for their accuracy. If I was the sort of person that hated movies just because they weren't correct, I would hate almost every movie ever based on history or literature (including Gladiator and Hunt for Red October, for instance).

We all knew the movie would not follow the original storyline to the T. Who cares? A movie is a movie.
 
It's not that we don't listen, it's that we disagree.
This isn't just a movie. This is supposedly a serious attempt to put the Lord of the Rings, one of the greatest literary works of all time, on screen. It's not just "entertainment;" if Mr. Jackson is to be believed, the movies are "The Lord of the Rings," not "Based On the Lord of the Rings."
 
it is entertainment!why is it a movie, movie = entertainment some people want to enjoy the movie not be a snobby critic and complain about every stinkin little detail! Which is sadly how we sound when we complain about little or big things normal people don't care!
 
However we are critiquing from the perspective of the Tolkien fan. We (as a generic term) are in fact probably the best authorities on how these movies should be. The "normal person" might not see problems, but that is because the "normal person" does not understand.
 
Forget it Greymantle. You're flogging a dead horse, as am I. Tar doesn't seem to get it. If we wanted to see a movie butcher a book, we'd go see the average Stephen King movie that butchers his books everytime. Apparently Tar and others must feel LotR is on par with Stephen King's books and other novels and deserves to be unnecessarily changed. Especially since LoTR coming to the screen has been a work in the making since it was published, you would think that it would be done right, considering this is the only time in history it will happen.

It's too bad Tolkien's masterful world is being drastically altered in the name of "entertainment". From his letters he was quite adamant about what PJ 's doing now. It's to be expected that nowadays people will sell out great literature for entertainment. It's even sadder that people who know better (Tolkien fans) don't really care. After all, it's only entertainment
 
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