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Having, as I do, a twin brother obsessively driven to find out all he can about the upcoming movies, I can assure you there will be very little textfucking.
Some of the bigger changes:
1. Aragorn and Arwen's %mutual appreciation% is ripped, seeping and groaning, from the appendices and made of an onscreen affair. But, contrary to rumour, Arwen won't be joining the nine on their quest, or whatever. And she doesn't get that much air time. Just enough so that it's made clear that she and Aragorn have got it going on. Something Tolkien fails to do (unless, as I mentioned previously, you're an LOTR appendix geek). She does stand in for Glorfindels at the ford, but who really cares about that?
2. Tom Bombadil gets the chop. Shame. But, plot wise, he is kind of extraneous.
3. The journey to Rivendell will be speeded up considerably. But how could it be otherwise?
4. Sauron will appear in the flesh, but only in the flashback scenes - "The Last Alliance of Elves and Men" and all that. He won't be some cackling baddy. He's still an eye. Sarumans the %human% threat.
5. Some of the sequences only referred to by word of mouth will be fully visualised: Gandalf and Saruman's standoff in Orthanc, frinstance.
And the scourging of the shire WILL happen.
As will all that grey havens, myth receding into the mist, jazz.
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eviance from the book is to be expected I guess.