I too think that the EE is a definite improvement, and I would like to go on record with my personal opinion on the Old Man Willow scene: I thought it worked well! It seemed very organic to have Treebeard, as a tree-shepherd, rescuing the hobbits with TB's lines.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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