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Originally Posted by Lotrelf
I think that wasn't melodramatic at all. As someone previously said, Aragorn's bow meant that hobbits did something that took courage of kings and warriors. The bow meant the world owes a lot to these four hobbits. Without their selfless efforts the War of the Ring would have turned out differently. That is true for both, books and the movies.
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It wasn't the gesture itself that was all that bad: it was the fact that
dialogue was deemed necessary to hammer the point home. A simple, wordless bow would have been more effective.