I can understand time restraints but they didn't help mattersby inserting the Warg battle that wasn't even in the book and have Aragorn fall off a cliff and survive which is plain stupid - and the excuse that it was to add a bit of excitement into the film, when they could have done so by adding Shelob on the end of the film and pulling forward the battle of Helm's Deep - that at least would have been truer to the book
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience,
Tue 18 Nov 2003, 14:06,
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They talk about thatin one of the documentaries, explaing why they made the changes.
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bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Tue 18 Nov 2003, 14:09,
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Then I shall be purchasing my copy of the Extended Edition through gritted teethabout the robbery of all of this.
( maiden is filmed before a live studio audience,
Tue 18 Nov 2003, 14:12,
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