[Kalimac]

Thanks, Araleithiel and Rosa and everyone. Actually I've never worked for Disney (not even an embittered former employee) I just couldn't stand what they did with their "historical" and "literary" movies (Esmeralda lives!). And to be honest, I also liked "The Lion King" quite a lot, it was just the exception to a long line of cringe-inducing flicks (and I do like the Bakshi LOTR and the Rankin-Bass ROTK, though that's for their value as MST3K fodder, not for their worthiness as exercises in filmmaking). <P>Hope I didn't scare anybody there by being overintense; obviously Disney will never do this now. It's just that I suddenly had a picture of what would have happened if Disney had somehow gotten the rights instead of Peter Jackson...oh, the agony! <P>You're right - Boromir would probably live (probably running away to keep himself from the temptation of the Ring, and re-encountering Frodo and Sam, poor old Faramir being cut out completely). I can't figure out what they would do with Gollum, though. Probably have him and Frodo hold hands and throw the Ring in together (I sense another song there, actually).<P>OK, I'll be quiet. But how *do* you think they'd handle Gollum?