[Tar-Palantir]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I am selfish, and am concerned with my pleasure while watching the film, not whether it matches the "intetions" of Tolkien. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>hear! hear! I agree with that and will second it by further saying that I enjoy the differences for the fact that it gives me 'two' stories or versions to enjoy. One can't hold a candle to the other, but that is as it should be. And they are different enough that I don't get them confused and 'actually' picture Elijah as Frodo, etc... which was a worry in the beginning for me.<P>As my old gaffer used to say "Sam," he said, "candy doesn't taste as good to spoiled kids." Then the old gaff would put that old pipe of southfarthing in his mouth and sing away, "<I>Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone..."</I>