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   From: mr@sandman.net   
      
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    Paul S. Person  wrote:   
      
   > >Oh, but there is the Extended Cut versions... :)   
   >   
   > I never saw the /LOTR/ Extended Cuts because they never came out on   
   > one side of one disc (at least one Amazon reviews of the BD indicates   
   > that, even with 50 GB of space, they /still/ can't fit the Extended   
   > Editions on one side of one disc).   
   >   
   > So I probably won't be seeing any Extended Editions of /TH/ either.   
      
   Haha, so typical you. :)   
      
   What a relief it must have been when they finally release Lod of the   
   Rings in one volume so you finally could read the books! :-D   
      
   > "down. down" and "14 birds" (this is from memory) are expository when   
   > the book clearly states what is happening?   
      
   *rolleye*   
      
   >  agreement and, if you want PJ to be regarded as completely   
   > irresponsible and so free of blame, what is that to me?   
      
   Please don't put words in my mouth.   
      
   > >Hmmm, not sure which illustration you mean. I'm quite certain there is   
   > >no "canon" illustration from the original book. The one I can think of   
   > >is the one by Eric Fraser back from the eighties, where the eagle   
   > >appear maybe four times the size of a dwarf.   
   >   
   > >The eagle that carried Thorin had to use both talons to carry him   
   > >"vertically", and looking at this particular illustrations, that's not   
   > >very far off - but they do appear slightly smaller.   
   >   
   > It's one of the color illustrations in the hard-cover, slip-cased   
   > edition I purchased sometime in the 1970s (so far as I can tell).   
   > Whether it was included in the original book, however that is defined,   
   > I have no idea. Some editions, particularly paperback editions,   
   > probably omitted the color illustrations altogether, just as the   
   > fold-out map was reduced to a one-page image (both of them being   
   > reduced to a one-page image each if there were two).   
   >   
   > It also appears in /J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator/ pg 121;   
   > the text identifies it as "the third of [JRRT's] /Hobbit/   
   > watercolours". So, the one I am looking at was done by JRRT himself.   
   >   
   > Note that "2 sizes larger" is not the same as "twice as large". I   
   > think we are in agreement on this point.   
   >   
   > Slightly smaller or not, the Eagles in the films are still quite   
   > impressive!   
      
      
      
      
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