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Subject: Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 14:14:14 -0400
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On 8/10/2024 12:46 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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.

He's not. PJ introduces Tauriel a female wood elf for no reason
except to be able to create a love-triangle subplot.

pt