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Kassandros
Rohan
Feb 13 2013, 9:49pm
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A couple questions for you to consider.
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Let's suppose you watch a movie. As far as you know, it is an original story, not an adaptation. Let's say that you really like the movie.Actually, you like the movie so much that you believe it is the best movie ever made. Let's say you like it so much that you go online and visit message boards and praise it again and again. Then, let's imagine, you find out that instead of being an original story, it's actually an adaptation of a book you had never heard of and never read. Let's imagine you then read the book and don't like the book. Let's imagine that the movie changed a lot of details about the book but still kept some core concepts. Would you suddenly "hate the movie for being unfaithful to the book?" Would you now judge it to be a "bad movie?" Would all your enjoyment of the movie just suddenly cease to exist? Another hypothetical: Are The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings perfect books? If another author revised them, would it be impossible for them to be improved? What if Tolkien himself had revised them? Actually, he did. Did the publishing deadline that forced him to declare the version he was working on as the final version somehow also coincide with a mystical form of perfection of the story so that neither he nor another author could ever improve on the books?
all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us...
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Hobbit: 10 times shorter, 100 times more honest
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stoutfiles
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Feb 8 2013, 4:25pm
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Already laughing...
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bborchar
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Feb 8 2013, 5:18pm
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Thanks a lot, now I'm scarred for life.
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Aragalen the Green
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Feb 8 2013, 5:59pm
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(hesitates, frowns) Language Warning!!!!!
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SirDennisC
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Feb 8 2013, 5:59pm
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language warning, but this is a scream
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Brethil
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Feb 8 2013, 7:45pm
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My thoughts too
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Sślimė
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Feb 9 2013, 6:22am
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That's why I laughed
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Brethil
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Feb 9 2013, 3:38pm
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Personally, I can handle colourful language
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SirDennisC
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Feb 9 2013, 3:49pm
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Heh, noticed the same thing.
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Macfeast
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Feb 8 2013, 8:04pm
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But even minutia such as
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SirDennisC
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Feb 8 2013, 8:09pm
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That reminds me of LOTR Breadbox Edition!
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Tintallė
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Feb 8 2013, 6:24pm
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Schizoid Thorin Forgotten
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JWPlatt
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Feb 8 2013, 8:10pm
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Didn't mention the hug, but interpreted it here:
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SirDennisC
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Feb 9 2013, 3:38pm
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Thank you for posting this.
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Brandybuckled
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Feb 8 2013, 8:34pm
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Hit and Miss
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Mahtion
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Feb 8 2013, 8:52pm
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Tolkien wasn't perfect...
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Kassandros
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Feb 9 2013, 1:43am
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POV
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JWPlatt
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Feb 9 2013, 2:07am
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I know.
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Kassandros
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Feb 9 2013, 8:58pm
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100% agreed.
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Arannir
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Feb 9 2013, 12:22pm
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Well one could argue that it's PJ's fault :P
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imin
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Feb 9 2013, 1:02pm
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Of course, I totally disagree.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 10 2013, 4:23am
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The whole Gandalf in the nick of time complaints
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ElendilTheShort
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Feb 10 2013, 8:57am
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We know it's in the book...
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Kassandros
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Feb 12 2013, 3:27pm
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Yeah it kind of is.
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aarondirebear
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Feb 12 2013, 7:24pm
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*sigh*
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Kassandros
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Feb 12 2013, 7:58pm
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On this I agree with you immensely.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 12 2013, 11:16pm
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QED
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aarondirebear
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Feb 13 2013, 6:13pm
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A couple questions for you to consider.
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Kassandros
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Feb 13 2013, 9:49pm
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A good movie can be a bad adaptation (and sometimes vice versa).
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 13 2013, 10:03pm
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Incorrect...
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Otaku-sempai
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Feb 14 2013, 1:55pm
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Let's remember
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entmaiden
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Feb 12 2013, 10:04pm
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No, that is your forced perspective. That is how you WANT him to behave, even if
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 12 2013, 11:00pm
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You seem to be misunderstanding what I'm saying.
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Kassandros
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Feb 12 2013, 11:27pm
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Well stated, and fair enough.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 12 2013, 11:59pm
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I think Gandalf should have killed the Great Goblin
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imin
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Feb 13 2013, 12:05am
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I Completely agree. I was pleased with what they did, but still think the way it happens in
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 13 2013, 12:52am
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Were you worried
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imin
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Feb 13 2013, 1:39am
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Yes, Imin, that is exactly one of the possibilities I feared. lol
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 13 2013, 3:10am
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:)
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KilroyMcFadden
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Feb 9 2013, 3:55am
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Lord, I lost it!
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Kimtc
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Feb 9 2013, 4:29am
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haha
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namarie
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Feb 9 2013, 9:36am
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Loved it!
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Ham_Sammy
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Feb 9 2013, 6:28pm
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Not always accurate or fair, but VERY funny.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 10 2013, 4:09am
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It's quite funny...
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BoromirOfWinterfell
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Feb 10 2013, 8:20am
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that article is spot on
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Elenorflower
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Feb 10 2013, 9:05pm
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In some regards, but not in many others.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 11 2013, 11:34pm
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