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|  01-18-2024, 02:08 PM | #1 | 
| Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 
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|  01-18-2024, 05:42 PM | #2 | 
| Wight Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Treading the Narrow Way 
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			I can scarcely believe that.   It's simply dreadful. 
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|  01-19-2024, 06:10 PM | #3 | 
| Curmudgeonly Wordwraith Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits 
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			When you just read the character names and the words "fan-fiction" immediately leap to mind, then I would defer to the great Dorothy Parker, when she stated in a pointedly negative review: “This is not a novel to be thrown aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” One could say the same about this script. 
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|  01-23-2024, 06:14 PM | #4 | 
| Guardian of the Blind Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Where The Skies End 
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			I don't believe that the rights to the sil would be sold with no fanfare.
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|  01-24-2024, 03:57 AM | #5 | 
| Overshadowed Eagle Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: The north-west of the Old World, east of the Sea 
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			Goodness, is it April 1st already?   There are snippets in there that sound plausible (I can see "Sauron shows up disguised as Celeborn" as a plotline), but most of it is just way too out there. The idea of an entire episode in the Timeless Halls is ridiculous (note that Good Omens only set a single scene there, because swirling galaxies and no floor don't make a good set however funny your actors are), and the "omigosh they're all NAKED" part is just an attempt to re-ignite the same outrage that occurred when some grubby elves in rags in a prison camp got rumour-milled into "the origin of orcs and they're all NAKED". Similarly, "a full episode" about horses is too silly to believe. Will Meteor Man meet a horse somewhere? Maybe! Will TRoP abandon all its other tangled plotlines to devote an entire episode to what kind of sugarlumps it likes and "I think I shall call him... Fadowshax"? Nope! Though I admit the idea of Tom Bombadil in a massive iron crown and Ungoliant in a fancy dress amuses me immensely. "Tom had an errand there / Conquering the Northlands / Now dancing home again / To his pretty spi-i-der..." hS 
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