I'm a purist, but I love the Lord of the Rings movies even though they have tons of flaws.  How do I manage it?  This is how I approach a viewing of Peter Jackson's trilogy.

As I mentioned in my previous video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMN60djLaek), as a purist I find a lot of things about Peter Jackson's movie adaptation that I find...lacking.  This list is about the opposite of that.  These are, in my view, the highest notes Jackson managed to hit.

Two weeks ago I talked about the really good stuff in Peter Jackson's movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxGQ0tsWII    Last week I talked about the scenes that could have been much better with just a little tweaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlQLmwRv5mU  This week, the world ends and ruination falls upon us because I'm discussing the most irredeemably bad scenes in Peter Jackson's trilogy.  Not for the faint of heart.

Last week (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxGQ0tsWII) I discussed what I think are the best scenes in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy.  In this video, I want to discuss the scenes that were pretty good, but could have been much better, even phenomenal, and how that could have been done.

Yoystan at the Men of the West channel recently proposed an idea for how Arwen could have been more involved in Lord of the Rings.  Here are my thoughts on his idea.

Yoystan's original video on the topic is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcK7b0YR7Is

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A response to a fairly thoughtless article insinuating Orcs are a racialist stand-in.

People often ask why the Great Eagles didn't fly Frodo to Mount Doom.  Here's why.

Numenor began in an unfinished time travel story: The Lost Road.

Tolkien's impact on culture goes far beyond being the grandfather of modern fantasy.

In honor of Valentine's Day, a look at how Tolkien treats romance in his fiction.