Re: (Next to no) discussion on extended version of TTT?

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Smaug69) wrote:

> "jere7my tho?rpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> >      They are fans who were faced with the realities of filmmaking. 
> 
> Sorry, but some of Boyens' comments had nothing to do with filmmaking.
> She was talking about the writing style of Tolkien and how she would
> have liked to have taken a blue pencil to that Council of Elrond
> chapter. That's abhorrent, AFAIAC.

     Please listen again to what she actually said.  As an editor, she 
would have liked to trim the Council scene; as a reader, she would have 
been horrified to do so.  She was making a point about whether or not a 
publisher would publish the book today.

     Besides, it is possible to be a fan of something without thinking 
it perfect.  Tolkien's book has flaws, and there's nothing wrong with 
pointing them out.

                                                       ----j7y

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