<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> As far as I'm concerned, the only thing in the movies worth seeing is when Tolkien's own work makes it on screen. The 'stuff' of Jackson & the writers hangs off Tolkien's work, adding nothing, but is kept afloat by the scraps of Tolkien's genius which has survived. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Which is of course exactly why the Bakshi version (which was if anything more fathful than Jackson's) was such a roaring success.<P>Oh, hang on a minute....it wasn't was it. I guess having bits faithful to the sacred texts is not enough after all.
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