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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The Tolkein books were adapted incredibly well by Peter Jackson.
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Except that Jackson changed many plot points, especially in The Two Towers.
For example:
--Eomer was never exiled from Edoras. He was imprisoned and released after Gandalf released Theoden from Saruman's spell.
--Eowyn, the women, and children, never went to Helm's Deep. They went to Dunharrow and stayed there. The folks in the Glittering Caves were the resident's of Helm's Deep, which was Erkenbrand's fortress.
--It was Erkenbrand and his 1000 foot soldiers, not Eomer that saved the day at Helm's Deep
--Helm's Dike was left out altogether
--The warg atttack and the non-sense with Aragorn falling off of a cliff NEVER happened in the book
--There were no elves other than Legolas at Helm's Deep.
--There were around 2000 men (or more) defending Helm's Deep, not 300 as shown in the movie.
These are just the big changes. Yes, it caught the spirit of the story, but that is not what I'd call a "good adaptation." I can understand leaving things out like Bombadil and the Barrow Wights, and the Scouring of the Shire...but Jackson manufactured some parts of the movie out of whole cloth (like the Dead going to Minas Tirith--Aragorn dismissed them after the Battle for Pelargir).