Man, this thread has me rolling in the aisles. Some of you folks are <I>really</I> over-analyzing this thing. $$ will make it happen, in spite of "protecting this", "presevering that", "legendary stubborness", etc...etc... If money were to go up against the One Ring itself, I'd take my chances on the former. There will be a Hobbit movie, it's just a case of when, not if.<P>I'm sorry, but people being so sensitive to the eventual death of C. Tolkien is another thing that has me laughing. Cripes! There are a half million things to be bothered about in this world, yet some people are getting incensed over the perception that some folks want the old man dead so his precious (no pun intended) Hobbit manuscript can be snatched from his cold, lifeless fingers.<P>The movies kept the essence of the books intact in spite of the alterations from the storyline. To say otherwise is a classic case of not seeing the forest for the trees. If J.R.R. Tolkien had been a film director in our time period, and not an author, I wonder how his vision of LOTR would have been altered from what we see in the books?
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