Halshuggningen av Saurons mun är en liten käpphäst för mig. Jämför med den här scenen i boken (kapitlet "The White Rider"):
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Aragorn looked and beheld a bent figure moving slowly. It was not far away. It looked like an old beggar-man, walking wearily, leaning on a rough staff. His head was bowed, and he did not look towards them. In other lands they would have greeted him with kind words; but now they stood silent, each feeling a strange expectancy: something was approaching that held a hidden power-or menace.
Gimli gazed with wide eyes for a while, as step by step the figure drew nearer. Then suddenly, unable to contain himself longer, he burst out: 'Your bow, Legolas! Bend it! Get ready! It is Saruman. Do not let him speak, or put a spell upon us! Shoot first!'
Legolas took his bow and bent it, slowly and as if some other will resisted him. He held an arrow loosely in his hand but did not fit it to the string. Aragorn stood silent, his face was watchful and intent.
'Why are you waiting? What is the matter with you?' said Gimli in a hissing whisper.
'Legolas is right,' said Aragorn quietly. 'We may not shoot an old man so, at unawares and unchallenged, whatever fear or doubt be on us. Watch and wait!'
Här väljer alltså Aragorn att göra mer eller mindre tvärt om mot hur han agerar i filmen. Man kan inte angripa någon som inte är beredd, "at unawares and unchallenged".
Ibland bryter filmerna av kraftigt mot bokens själva väsen.