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Welcome, Bilbo.



I'm a big fan of the Peter Jackson trilogy (except the ghost army deus ex machina). Yes, I have attended an all-day marathon of the extended editions.

The movies are better than the books. Tolkien was a great creator of fictional worlds, but not a great writer of fictional stories. If alive today he'd have a great career with Wizards of the Coast.

My pet peeve with LOTR is that Sauron deserved to win. Frodo failed. The day is only saved by Gollum's insanity. I found that really unsatisfying.
Interesting, but I think that the story was written in a different age from a different tradition. I liked the book's ghost army better.
 
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