I usually prefer the book too Kat. To be fair though, books and films do different things. For a start, you spend far less time with the film, so there is less time to get the ideas across. Lord of the Rings was already a long film, so it is difficult to see how they could have made time to get in the part of Tom Bombardil.... But I'm thread drifting too. I thought David Niven (a passable screen actor) was seriously miscast as Sergeant Miller in "The Guns of Navarone". It's also worth noting that in the book, that character was an American. I guess we were at least spared the ordeal of Niven attempting an American accent...