Several members of the AICN team chime in on Fellowship.

This is really good news!

Here is the important thing: The Story is not changed. It is not exactly the

same, but it is the same story. That has in no way been lost, or weakened or

polluted. I have finally arrived at a way of describing the difference between

the book and the film: Imagine the book as a valuable weaving. Take the exact

fabric and re weave it…tighter. Snip off a few barely noticeable threads,

move a little of the fiber around to strengthen the integrity of the whole,

and you have the same weaving…sturdier, renewed, ready for new use, but the

same…Thats the key here. As a result, once the script is streamlined like this, it

MOVES. Tolkien’s prose, as much as we love it, is a little leisurely, but with

just a little tuneup, connecting the same existing material in slightly

different ways, you travel the same ground in breathless, headlong fashion.