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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   >  Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
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   >> 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.   
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   > "Wholly different" indeed. The movie "The Hobbit" and the book   
   > "The Hobbit" is as different as the movie "Jurassic Park" and the   
   > book "The Hobbit". :-D   
      
   I'm not sure I'd go quite that far, but something like that ;-)   
      
   Certainly it is different enough that I don't really care about the   
   story and the characters as if they were Tolkien's (you might say   
   that it is a praise for Jackson's LotR trilogy that they were close   
   enough that I couldn't help care for the story and the characters as   
   if they were Tolkien's -- though given what that caring led me to, it   
   can be argued that this is "damning with faint praise" :-D )   
      
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