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n Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:19:23 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

>On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 10:40:08 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>
>>Sigh... why would they make 3 seasons of a book that one reads in a few=
=20
>>days? It will only be like the Hobbit a long and tedious wait between=20
>>actual scenes from the book. =3D(
>>
>I was mostly irate at the movie version of Lord of the Rings since one
>of the scenes they filmed but left on the cutting room floor was the
>death of Saruman (who a lot of people considered a rip-off of the
>death of Mussolini) after the fall of the Dark Tower.
>
>No question it was my favorite LoTR scene though the "Speak Friend and
>Enter" scene was the funniest from the books.

I wasn't aware that Saruman died by landing on the Wheel of Fortune at
Isengard.

In the version of /LOTR/ that /I/ read, he dies much later in the
Shire.

Now /that/ entire sequence would have been worth seeing!
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"