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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   Lewis  spoke these staves:   
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   > I did find the extended sliding scene to be more than a little   
   > silly.   
      
   I had my children, all four of them (aged from 13 to 21), with me in the   
   cinema, and of the five of us, I think I was the most tolerant of the   
   whole goblin town sequence -- and I also found the escape of the Dwarves   
   (and Gandalf) to be much too long.   
      
   This was, however, my only objection to the film as cinema audience.   
      
   As a Tolkien student I am pleased that the story has so little in common   
   with Tolkien's because this frees me to enjoy it at a different level --   
   I can accept the world and the story of the film as being something   
   wholly different from Tolkien's world and story.   
      
   > If you want to see one done right, watch The Empire Strikes   
   > Back.   
      
   I'm wringing my brain to recall what scene you are thinking of -- I'm   
   sure that once I'm told, I'll be slapping my forehead exclaiming "Doh! Of   
   course!" but at the moment it slips my mind ;-)   
      
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   Troels Forchhammer   
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       your mind does visit,   
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