Originally Posted by Morthoron:
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Perhaps there should have been a pair of single quotation marks within the body of the original quote:
"Come talk about the 'all the movies of the Lord of the Rings', even those animated ones."
Then 'all the movies of the Lord of the Rings' becomes a title, and is grammatically acceptable (although still awkward) with the added article. One can make the English language do whatever one likes, in most cases.
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Of course, either way, it's still gramatically incorrect the way it is now. I've also noticed that it hasn't been changed since this thread started. that's twenty days by my count. Maybe it's like that short story that my high school spanish teacher made us read (in spanish, of course.) I don't remember the details, as it's been more than thirty years, but I remember that the action revolved around a love letter that was not punctuated. Each of the three women who received it added their own punctuation to make themselves come out on top. At the end of the story, the author of the love letter punctuated it to show that none of them was good enough for him. Very sexist in execution, but the point was well made, at least for a high-school spanish class. Language skills are important after all.