I agree the "Let's hunt orc" line was the nadir in an otherwise excellent movie, but like LH, I can forgive that one. The first two movies were excellent, and I am looking forward to seeing the last one, based on all the favourable comment I've heard on it. Long time waiting for these films and I haven't been disappointed.

And I also love the books. I can appreciate the books and movies as two separate but related works.

By the way, Tolkien was among those who invented the things now called cliché. One of the things I admire in LOTR is the way the tone of language was maintained over the whole work which was years in the writing (and developing/fleshing out). J.R.R. Tolkien never dragged us through the dirt. The man created a whole world and history. If bits of silly poetry (which, in that context, were supposed translations from his own mythological languages) were part of it, so be it. There have been far worse literary transgressions published.


p.s. I thought the slaying of Boromir was pretty close to the book version; It take a lot of uruk-hai arrows to bring him down.