i was pretty miffed by the movie adaptions treatment of faromir. TWO characters in the entire saga aren't tempted by the one ring, sam & faromir, but the movie treated faromir like he was any other power-hungry human. faromir was already such a tragic character, but the movie's depiction tragically misrepresented his heart.
ignoring the marriage (*ahem*) the other big problem i had was the treatment of dwarves in general as the butt of jokes, especially the 'race' while tracking down the urukai-kidnapped hobbits. the dwarf on foot nearly outran the elf on horseback in the narrative, and it wasn't out of some comical fear of horses that he refused to ride, but pride in his dwarfhood. turning them into laughing-stocks in the film instead of the proud & noble race depicted in the books is an offense to dwarves under every mountain.
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