[twigs]

True. But then there's the Lord of the Rings. While movies are rarely as good as the book, those three movies were some of the best ever made, IMHO.

[Tax-chick]

Those didn't work for me. They might have if I hadn't read the books so many times, but I'm a real stickler for "what the author wrote."

[TXnMA]

My main regret re the LOTR makers is that they didn't go ahead and film the Hobbit while they had Hobbiton and Rivendell all set up.

[frgoff]

Which is a testament to just how awesome the book was, since Jackson made it a personal mission to assassinate characters, eviscerate themes and castrate story lines in his movie adaptation.