From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net   
      
   On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:47:08 in article <9t36c9hs33b91ogqdd109cg   
   cgvraq4uen@4ax.com> Paul S. Person  wrote:   
   >   
   > Are you looking forward to the third film, if only to see who Tauriel   
   > ends up with? (We know pretty much everything else that has to be in   
   > it, at least in outline. Who kills Smaug, Bard or his son, might be in   
   > doubt, but then, those Dwarves and Tauriel in Laketown have to have   
   > /some/ plot-related reason for being there.)   
      
   I am looking forward to it, though there was a lot in this one that I   
   didn't much care for.  (As I told my son afterwards, they could have   
   put a powdered wig on Bilbo and called it "The George Washington Story"   
   and it would have been about as accurate a description.)  In any case,   
   I did like how they depicted Smaug and I want to see him in a real   
   aerial battle.  I'm also curious to see how Sauron is driven out of   
   Dol Guldur, and whether they show him sneaking back into Mordor.  I'm a   
   little worried they're going to have him march back in openly and rebuild   
   (or maybe just reoccupy) Barad-dûr without any attempt at secrecy.   
   After all, Gandalf already has recognized him, when he was supposed to   
   remain unrecognized until after he reestablished himself in Mordor.   
      
   --   
   F. Wayne Brown    
      
   Þæs ofereode, ðisses swa mæg.  ("That passed away, this also can.")   
      from "Deor," in the Exeter Book (folios 100r-100v)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)