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Christopher disliked the prologue. In his view, the Wide World should be gradually revealed to the reader as it is to Frodo.
For myself, I wouldn't have minded the Last Alliance flashback stuff being placed in Frodo and Gandalf's "Shadow of the Past" conversation. Of course, that would imply rather more leisure than Jackson's ultrcompressed timeframe allowed- Frodo leaving that very night, not months later.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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