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Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim
Alatar, I think you misunderstand me. I was not referring to the Orc carcasses fetched by the three Heroes; I was using the Scots' word for 'fighting'— fechtin'. 
Though it kind of works!
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Sorry. I just liked
that use of the word so much that it clouded my perceiving it otherwise ("I will
fetch thee if thou touches him...").
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Did having the death of Boromir in the Fellowship actually improve on the book? I always thought the end of the first book was slightly anticlimactic, and I can't really imagine reading it and then waiting another 6 months or a year or however long it was until Two Towers came out.
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I would think that this is one of PJ's actual improvements on the text - not that Tolkien wanted three different books, as LotR is one story. Movie-wise, great ending.