[i]Interesting considering that it was Two Towers that PJ said was furthest from the book... [/i]

Technically true -- the whole thing about Aragorn falling off the cliff was entirely made up, but it didn't bother me because it didn't fundamentally change the story. And the battle for Helm's Deep made a good movie climax even if it wasn't so important in the book.

But the smaller changes made to ROTK were more incompatible, IMO. Maybe it was this whole idiotic Arwen/Aragorn love thing coming to it's nauseating and predictable end despite it's utter irrelevance. Or, while the ring's destruction the way it occurs in the book would be lousy on the big screen, the alternate they used was worse and has been done SOOOO many times. Perhaps it was the sudden collapse of Sauron and... er... all that stuff (for those who haven't seen it)... that was just too cheesy. I felt the ending was the antithesis of Tolkein's message (oft repeated in the movies) that evil never dies. And if they were going to do that much postlogue, couldn't Eowyn get her happy ending? Nah, cause of the other "love story," I suppose.

Enough nitpicking. I can come up with lists for the other two, too, but their issues didn't bother me for whatever reason.

Glad ya'll loved it, but I thought it the weakest of the 3 by far. Still better than a lot of movies that get made, though.