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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 09:46:33 -0700
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On 8/10/2024 8:50 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 21:41:13 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/9/2024 8:31 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>> On 8/8/2024 2:19 PM, The Horny Goat 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
>>>>> days? It will only be like the Hobbit a long and tedious wait between
>>>>> actual scenes from the book. =(
>>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> You can see the scene in the Extended Edition, integrated in its proper
>>> place (in the movie chronology, not the book's).
>>>
>>> I do recommend the Extended Edition. And disrecommend *any* version
>>> of the Hobbit trilogy.
>>>
>>>
>>> pt
>>
>> The second scene in the Hobbit trilogy is funny with all of the dwarves
>> walking into Bilbo's house with the round doors and stealing all of his
>> food and beer.
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2skcNR3jYzs
> 
> The Elf-Dwarf romance spanning the second and third was also
> interesting -- it is entirely PJ's idea, and it shows what PJ could
> have done had he, instead of butchering the novels, just done his own
> story set in Middle-Earth.
> 
If you are referring to the Gimli/Legolas friendship that was straight 
out of the original books.

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