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AinurOlorin
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Jan 31 2013, 11:57pm
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Thank you! And I absolutely agree with your comment about that fading and loss
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being a central theme of LOTR. I really wish Peter had followed Bakshi's example in the one respect of including Galadriel's lines to Frodo about The Three, The One and the Elves. In the live action Fellowship, she never really explains the "footstep of doom" comment, and the book, and the old animated give a wonderfully and woundingly powerful understanding. I know what you mean about the fence straddling. I wouldn't count on it ending, since The Necromancer and Council will feature heavily, but it could still work very well, if it is handled correctly. I've been thinking about this for a while, and I completely agree with what you said, especially how LotR is dominated by a 'growing feel of the world of Men'. I think that's what the LotR books were all about -- a sense of fading 'magic', and I think the movies nailed it perfectly. The Hobbit is something very different. You said it perfectly: 'a cozy, more familiar sense of childlike wonder'. Personally, I only want a vague connection with LotR, since if we keep true to the spirit of the books, The Hobbit offers a totally different tone and feel. I think AUJ tries a little too much to tie it to LotR (Frodo is totally unnecessary!), but I hope that is just because it wants to establish itself in the same universe first (for non-book-readers), before departing into its own version of Middle Earth in the later two movies. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want The Hobbit movies to be what The Hobbit book is to The Lord of the Rings books -- something different, that is just set in the same universe. "Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!" "Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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Why, to my mind, An Unexpected Journey greatly adds to rather than detracts from LOTR's fim legacy.
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 30 2013, 2:04am
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We are on the same highway again
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Elessar
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Jan 30 2013, 2:29am
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Absolutely.
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 30 2013, 2:54am
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Always a chance
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Elessar
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Jan 30 2013, 3:32am
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what do you hate about the dwarf histroy?
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lurtz2010
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Jan 30 2013, 5:59am
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Thror getting killed before the main battle is essential to understanding the war and the dwarves.
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 30 2013, 6:20am
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Thanks for you post
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LordMaximus
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Jan 30 2013, 6:24am
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Agreed.
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 30 2013, 6:31am
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Pace and import
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Brethil
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Jan 30 2013, 12:39pm
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You do that for sure
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Elessar
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Jan 30 2013, 8:10pm
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to the op
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redgiraffe
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Jan 30 2013, 12:45pm
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*warm smile and blush*
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 30 2013, 7:05pm
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It was setup to fail, though
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stoutfiles
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Jan 30 2013, 1:17pm
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Are you insinuating
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Lindele
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Jan 30 2013, 3:53pm
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The prologue invoked LOTR
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stoutfiles
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Jan 30 2013, 8:16pm
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The tone of the prologue for AUJ is mixed, like the movie. And it does not go
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 30 2013, 7:22pm
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I found the tone
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Arandiel
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Jan 31 2013, 6:02am
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Almost exactly. Point well made. Indeed, Galadriel tells us definitively that something HAS been lost
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 31 2013, 11:32pm
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The films
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Rostron2
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Jan 30 2013, 4:14pm
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Appreciate the thoughtful post
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Loresilme
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Jan 30 2013, 5:43pm
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Aww. Thank you, as well.
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 30 2013, 7:52pm
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Great post!
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Súlimë
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Jan 31 2013, 7:36am
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Thank you! And I absolutely agree with your comment about that fading and loss
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 31 2013, 11:57pm
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Thanks for a heartful posting
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Brethil
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Feb 1 2013, 12:58am
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I am glad you did.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 1 2013, 1:49am
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Thank you for this lovely post!
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elostirion74
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Jan 31 2013, 4:31pm
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;)
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 1 2013, 1:49am
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Agreed
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Escapist
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Feb 1 2013, 1:09am
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This is very true.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 1 2013, 1:53am
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