I certain don't disagree with you that it was a good movie, well worth viewing. I understand the difficulties in converting a book to a movie. I have no issues with parts being omitted to keep the viewing time down to a reasonable limit. I just didn't care for the "feel" of the movie, the way it wandered from the book left me feeling somewhat empty. I would expect that the Faramir thing might have been to allow the Shelob portion of the story to be told in the third installment as the third book does not have quite as much "stuff" in it as the first two. I guess we'll see in a year or so!