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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   Troels Forchhammer  spoke these staves:   
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   > As Rateliff points out in a comment to Bratman's blog (on his   
   > livejournal blog[#]), "Trailers are there for people to judge   
   > movies by; that's their entire purpose." the film-makers actually   
   > make the trailer for that sole purpose that we should judge their   
   > film by it, and so it is, in my opinion, entirely reasonable to at   
   > least evaluate the trailer carefully.   
      
   Since the above, if left alone, is a fallacious appeal to authority   
   (Rateliff has, to the best of my knowledge, no special qualifications   
   within the film industry), I'll just add that I quited him merely   
   because it seems to me that he put it very well (succinct yet precise),   
   and as the only top-rank Tolkien scholar (according to Bratman -- a   
   question in which I do consider him an authority) who openly likes the   
   Jackson /LotR/ trilogy, I thought it relevant to include his opinion   
   because his view on the films is more positive than my own.   
      
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