I hate to admit it but I hadn’t read this at all until after the movies came out. Well, at least until after the first one.
So far, I’ve read it 4 times and currently midway on my 5th. My husband and daughter got a copy for me for Mother’s day, right before my husband left for a year in Iraq. Thank goodness he’s made it safely home since then.
I finally saw what some people were up in arms about, leaving out the majority of the Ent story and switching character’s actions. For me, I’d have liked to see Sam come back and heal the village. BUT.. Not every detail could make it into a movie that could be produced nowadays. I mean, we’ve got 9 hours of it in the theatrical version, right? Plus a bit more with the extra on the dvd versions.
I think overall the movie was pretty darn faithful to the words and quite captured the spirit of the book.