What changes do you LIKE?

[Meriadoc1961]

There have been many posts regarding what people do not like about Jackson's adaptation, so I would like to start a discussion regarding what changes one liked that Jackson did.

I know many will disagree with me, but I, for one, had no problem with the fight scene between Saruman and Gandalf that led to Gandalf's capture. In the book, Gandalf glossed over how it happened, but his pride was hurt because he had never been captured before. "Caught like a fly in a spider's web," I believe he said. And remember, he had actually ventured into Moria previously, but more importantly, he had gone into Dol Guldur when Sauron was there, and still he had emerged uncaptured. And he said that Dol Guldur was worse than Moria. So what Jackson did in the movies did not bother me at all. In fact, I had always pictured something like this happening myself when I had read the books, for I could not see Gandalf just go willingly to prison without a fight. Although I do not have the books in front of me, it seems that I recall him telling the council that "They placed me in the highest pinnacle" or something to that effect, which made me believe there had to have been some kind of struggle.

I also had no problem with Jackson putting the words of Tom Bombadil verbatim into the mouth of Treebeard as he rescued the two young hobbits from Old Man Willow.