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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

But that's as far as it went.

How far do you take things like that, though? Why was Aragorn in love with Arwen and vice versa? What was the history of their relationship? When did Sam and Frodo first meet and why is Sam so loyal to Frodo in the face of their conflict over Smeigel? Etc.

Of course there are things we aren't told and aren't present. When you have limited constraints in terms of time in a movie (and they were pretty long already), how can you address all such issues?

I don't think you can. So you do your best to move the main characters along. Frodo and the burden of the ring and the final overwhelming of him by its power when he refused to destroy it at the end. Aragorn accepting who he was. Etc.

I have no vast knowledge of movies, but I can't think of another in the action genre that did as good of a job, except perhaps the original Star Wars.