"Nice peice of gold you got there" - ha!
After Ralph Bakshi's 1978 version came out I wondered why the LotR came across as so dark. I realized it was the absence of various lighter moments... The elves in the Shire... baths in Crickhollow... and most important, Tom Bombadil. The LotR is such an expertly crafted story. The darkness creeps in, rather than falling like night on the plains. Those bright moments become fewer and fewer. But in every version of the LotR the change from Happy Hobbitland to Shadows of the Dark is instant.
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Deserves death! I daresay he does... And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?
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