Drat it all that I haven't had more time to participate in these very articulate and impassioned movie discussions. Just a couple of notes to add here. There is a basis for the Bilbo-CGI scene in the books: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>When he had dressed, Frodo found that while he slept the Ring had been hung about his neck on a new chain, light but strong. Slowly he drew it out. Bilbo put out his hand. But Frodo quickly drew back the Ring. To his distress and amazement he found that he was no longer looking at Bilbo; a shadow seemed to have fallen between them, and through it he found himself eyeing a little wrinkled creature with a hungry face and bony groping hands.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>And although you may not like it (I admit I wasn't particularly fond of it myself), there's also a basis for Galadriel's "Hulk out": <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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