Hmmmmmm! Alright. Let me put a "for instance" in here. Did anyone see "The Black Cauldron"? I was a reader of Lloyd Alexander before I read Lewis. I was looking forward to seeing Taran and Gurgi and Flwydder The Bard! What did I get? Kid stuff. No truly evil Arainrod, no evil smelling hairy-man-beast Gurgi. What I got were kids and a fluffy thing with buck teeth that was more teddy-bear than man.
I detested the Disney adaptation of "The Black Cauldon" and have ceased to pay much attention to anything Disney does these days.
Perhaps this sort of mussing with a person's writing is what Tolkien referred to. If so, I'm right up there with him.
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'Perilous indeed,' said Aragorn, 'fair and perilous; but only evil need fear it, or those who bring some evil with them. Follow me!'
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