Thread: high, purged of the gross: the movies
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Old 06-29-2004, 01:40 PM   #27
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Thanks for the link, Saucie.

When I say "do you think he would have been pleased" with the movies, what I am getting at is, would Tolkien find that the movies succeeded in portraying Middle-Earth as:

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...the fair elusive beauty that some call Celtic .....'high', purged of the gross...steeped in poetry... great tales in fullness... majestic....
...etc?
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