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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Yet this isn't the Shire that JRRT depicts. Things have changed, and that simply doesn't come over at all at the end of PJ's movie.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>In the end though, this wasn't what Jackson was trying to portray. He was trying to show The Shire is the same but the four hobbits are different. I know this doesn't gell with what is in the book, but I for one don't have a problem with that.<P>I can't remember who said it, but someone described their brother's reaction to how he felt after returning from war and he greatly identified with the scene at the Green Dragon. I think that's the greatest compliment Jackson could have received because that is what he was going for.<P>H.C.