User blog comment:TolkienFan32/Tauriel???/@comment-122.108.246.172-20120819101840

I think you mean "Frodo", lol... anyway I agree completely. It really annoys me when they add or change a character to female just to keep audiences happy; but then again with movies audiences are king. A similar thing happened when Jackson hero-ified Legolas while making Gimli nothing but a goddam comic relief... appealing to the young female market there. As for Tom Bombadil, I mean let's face it, that episode doesn't add a whole lot to the original story, nice though it is. As for Peter Jackson, I admit he did a pretty good job with the cinematography and what have ya, but he already had one of the greatest stories in English literature at his disposal... all he had to do was not bollocks it up.