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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
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     Clams Canino  wrote:   
      
   > "Steve Hayes"  wrote in message   
      
   >>>Does anyone other than Sam know the whole story? Does Frodo carry his   
   >>>failure as a shameful secret or not? Should he be ashamed? Gandalf   
   >>>certainly would not think less of him, but would the others?   
      
   >> How well do those points come out in the film?   
      
   > About as well as they (don't really) appear in the book.   
   > This presuming you didn't read "Letters of JRRT".   
      
   I've never read the letters, but it seems to come out well in the book   
   (at least after a dozen readings or so).   
      
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