Well, Saucepanman, we'll have to disagree. I think they do have a <I>moral</I> responsibility to the fans. But there we get into a difficult area - legal vs moral responsibility. Clearly, they had no legal responsibility. They could have made it into a comedy, a p**s take (I put the asterisks in myself!), or a 'dungeons & dragons' slash fest (which is my own opinion of what they did), and still be within their 'legal rights'. I simply question their moral right to do what they did to such a well loved work. What's up there on screen simply isn't the LotR that I know & love.
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