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			Or we could go old, old, incredibly old-school. 
 
Charlie Chaplin as Glorfindel 
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as Legolas and Gimli 
Harold Lloyd as Aragorn 
Greta Garbo as Shelob 
Fatty Arbuckle as Aragorn 
Groucho Marx as Gandalf (naturally with Chico as Saruman and Harpo as Radagast) 
The Three Stooges as Denethor, Boromir and Faramir 
Sir Lawrence Olivier as Gollum. 
Marlene Dietrich as Ioreth 
Randolph Scott as Frodo 
 
Or we could do Carry on Follow that Ring 
 
Sid James as Aragorn 
Joan Sims as Arwen 
Barbara Windsor as Eowyn 
Kenneth Connor as Gandalf 
Kenneth Williams as Saruman 
Hattie Jaques as Galadriel 
Charles Hawtrey as Celeborn 
Bernard Bresslaw as Frodo 
Peter Butterworth as Merry 
Terry Scott as Pippin 
Phil Silvers as Denethor 
 
Naturally the music would need to match the cast. The overall theme could be an instrumental of the theme music from Chitty-chitty Bang Bang played on a kazoo. For the first sight of the Shire, we could have Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra from 2001: a space odyssey; Lothlorien would be seen to the strains of the Imperial March from Star Wars, and the entry into Bree would be accompanied by The Dance of the Knights from Prokoviev's Romeo and Juliet. Gandalf would confront the Witch-king at Minas Tirith to the theme music from Roobarb and Aragorn's leitmotif would be a hornpipe played on a tin whistle. For the Mordor scenes, to lighten the mood, a quartet of trombones could play The Teddy-Bears' Picnic. Naturally the swelling chords of Singin' in the Rain would augment the atmosphere at the Field of Cormallen.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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