This would surely depend on the director - by which I mean, the style of the movie - it certainly wouldn't have been possible in Jackson's film - Tom & the Old Forest couldn't have been made to fit. But Brian Sibley, who dramatised the BBC's LotR, did a radio adaptation of the Episode & it worked brilliantly. Its available through Amazon uk or the BBC website.<BR>For me it is an important episode - for the first time we see Frodo tempted, in the Barrow, to use the Ring for selfish ends - to escape from the Wight, leaving his friends to die. But he doesn't. This is Frodo's first test, & its an extreme one. Tom is a central figure of middle earth, whose importance, I sometimes feel, is missed.
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