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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> 1) PJ can pull it all back together and make the film a good three to four hour production; squeeze in Shelob, the Gandalf/Saruman showdown, make an amazing Battle of the Pelennor fields, and finish it up with Aragorn and Arwen's marrige and Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin riding off in to dusk. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>But if it ended with them all riding off together, that would leave out the Grey Havens and Sam's line "Well I'm back" and little Elanor.... I wouldn't consider that a good ending.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>and Gollum finishing off the ring in the classic way <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>But isn't that a good thing? Or by "the classic way" did you <I>not</I> mean "the book way"? 'Cause that's what it sounded like. (Can't you just <I>feel</I> my confusion? )