Thank you for being brave lol. Don’t get me wrong, I love the books too, but they don’t inspire the same sense of epic scale and awe in me that those sweeping, climactic sequences on film do. It just hits different. I also prefer movie Aragorn having an arc where he’s coming to terms with being worthy/accepting the mantle of king, whereas in the books Aragorn is pretty much just like, “yeah I am that guy” from the jump. He has his sword almost the whole time iirc instead of it being reforged at the end.

The Maulers’ whole deal is so interesting, they’re less a person at this point and more an institution. Who knows how many Maulers they’ve cycled through at this point, but a Mauler will always remain.