This film is a wonderful excursion into fantasy and adventure. Again, yes the film has it's flaws, but what movie doesn't? A few characters and situations were changed or omitted because of time restraints, not to mention to continue the flow of the film. In comparing this to Star Wars, note that this is toward the current prequels; not the original trilogy which began a revolution in moviemaking and moviegoing. The prequels don't compare in quality to those films. The fact is that the LOTR books predate Star Wars by a couple of decades, of which George Lucas borrowed a few sources from. I'm sorry, but the prequels just don't match up to LOTR OR the original SW trilogy, so it's not unfair at all.
