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   From: giles@poetic.com   
      
   On 8/20/2011 8:44 PM, Stan Brown wrote:   
   > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:35:53 -0500, Weland wrote:   
   >> just as it is Chaucer's Boethius for example so it   
   >> is Jackson's retelling of LoTR, not Tolkien's LoTR.   
   >   
   > And that's fine, except that Jackson claims it *is* Tolkien's LotR.   
   >   
   >   
   Sure. It makes more money that way.  But claiming it and it being so we   
   know are different.  Many an artist who does not come up with his own   
   work, but takes another's to reinterpret justifies himself by claiming   
   to understand the original better than even the original author.   
      
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