Commentators have compared Peter Jackson's 2001–2003 The Lord of the Rings film trilogy with the book on which it was based, J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954–1955 The Lord of the Rings, remarking that while bo
Wide panoramas of New Zealand's high country landscape (here, near Canterbury) replaced Tolkien's landscape descriptions in Jackson's films.
Forced transformation: since the Barrow-downs scene was cut (West Kennet Long Barrow pictured), the hobbits were not carrying barrow-blades when they needed weapons on Weathertop, so Aragorn suddenly produces four hobbit-sized swords. It is not explained how he knew there would be four hobbits.
Verlyn Flieger felt that when used with restraint, as in the case of Boromir's boat funeral, the film's use of visual imagery was "effective and moving".
Howard Shore, composer of The Lord of the Rings film score
Denethor
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Denethor II, son of Ecthelion II, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. He was the 26th ruling Steward of Gondor, dying by suicide in the besieged city of Minas T
Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings
…Picturing Tolkien, Janet Brennan Croft states that many of Jackson's characters are "demonstrably different" from Tolkien's: she lists Arwen, Faramir, Denethor, Théoden, Treebeard, Gimli, and "even Frodo, Sam, and Gollum". But the character she picks out as radically transformed is the hero Aragorn, who appears…
John Noble as Denethor in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King