Comment Extra scenes (Score 1) 285
Then again some of the scenes missed out would have been very good on-screen. How about the spooky bit on the Barrow Downs? Or putting the army of the Dead where they belong destroying the Corsairs on the Coast of Gondor (I don't think they worked at all well on the Pelennor). Or mining the Appendices for Aragorn and Arwen's backstory, which would introduce Arwen's character better and allow them to follow the rest of the book more closely, with Glorfindel meeting Aragorn and the Hobbits rather than Arwen (which I though in the film actually worked quite well) and Frodo defying the Nazgul on his own at the Ford which adds strength to his character.
You could even work in some of the extra scenes that Tolkien wrote later (published in Unfinished Tales) like the Battle of the Fords of Isen where Theoden's son is killed, or the Hunt for the Ring where the Nazgul are trying to find where the Ring and the Shire are. You could even (as it's an adaptation) have included scenes not in the book though hinted at, like Boromir's journey to Rivendale (that Tolkien wanted to write but never got around to)
As others have said though, treating the LotR's like this would work a lot better as an extended miniseries like Band of Brothers. That way you could even include the Scouring of the Shire, which would have been difficult in a film, as a penultimate episode.
You could even work in some of the extra scenes that Tolkien wrote later (published in Unfinished Tales) like the Battle of the Fords of Isen where Theoden's son is killed, or the Hunt for the Ring where the Nazgul are trying to find where the Ring and the Shire are. You could even (as it's an adaptation) have included scenes not in the book though hinted at, like Boromir's journey to Rivendale (that Tolkien wanted to write but never got around to)
As others have said though, treating the LotR's like this would work a lot better as an extended miniseries like Band of Brothers. That way you could even include the Scouring of the Shire, which would have been difficult in a film, as a penultimate episode.
